Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-22
INCLINE LIKE
THAT ON LOWE
WORK BEGINS ON ARROWHEAD
PROJECT
Ties Being Hauled to the Mountain
From San Bernsrolno--Will
Be the steepest Grade
In the World

SpStidi u lne tteIblus
SAN BERNARDINO, Jan. 2t.-The
work of track laying on the incline
railway being built to the summit or
the mountain range above the Arrow
hear Hot Springs, will be commenced
within few days and the road rushed
to completion as rapidly as is possible
for the hauling of freight to the noun
tain top for use in the Arrowhead dam
being built in Little Bear Valley.
Large shipments of ties for the road
are arriving and hauled to the noun
tains by team from this city.
In construction the road is to be
almost an exact duplication of the Mt.
Lowe railway. AS soon as its use In
hauling building materials for the Ar
rowhead dam is past it will be turned
into scenic passenger line, connect
ing with the electric line to be built
from this city to the base of the noun
tains at the hot springs in the mean
time. The road is to be about 200 feet
in length aud has a grade of 45 per cent,
which is believed to be the steepest
incline road in the world.
Charles l.. Taylor, residing north OF
this city, yesterday celebrated his one
hundredth birthday anniversary by
entertaining a number of his friends at
the home of W. G. Clark. Four genera
tions were present at the gathering. A
son came all the way from Wisconsin
to be present at his fathers CEN
tury anniversary. Mr.. Taylor has in
the east two sisters and a brother past
sc.
The proposition to annex a wide
strip of territory on the west of Cotton
to that city will not be attempted at
the present. The matter was dis
cussed al mass meeting of citizens last
night, the sentiment being decidedly
opposed to the scheme. The principal
opponents were the California Port
land Cement works and other manu-
featuring institutions in that district,
who objected to being brought into
the city, The cement works company
stated they expected to eXpend at once
about a quarter Of a million dollars in
enlarging their works and that plan
would have to be abandoned if they
were brought inside the city limits.
The annual meeting of the Santa Fe
Building & Loan association in this
city last night resulted in the increas-
ing of the capital stock from $1,000,-
COO to $4,000, 900 as a result of the re-
done. 1t is a purely local company,
being mutual in every way. but has
met with wonderful success in the
time it has been established 1t has
built 252 homes for members. The Of
ficers elected are: President, j. F..
Parker. vice president. DR.. A. K. John-
son; secretary, John Flagg; treasurer,
San Bernardino National bank: at
torney, F. w. Gregg. The board of di-
rectors consists of the first two Off
GERS and H. H. Ham, w. S. Hooper,
John Anderson, jr., j. F. Johnson. jr.,
J. e. McNeill. o. M. Stevenson and
w. r. McNeill
Rialto is to have a weekly news
paper It will be launched February
1 by Frank Boughton, formerly OF
Glendale, and Clyde Davidson of Los
Angeles
Department Commander w. w. Rus
sell of Marysville and Assistant Adult
ant General j. Fl. Roberts of San
Francisco were last night guests of
w. r. Cornman Post No. 81, G. A. r.
A banquet was served in their honor by
the Women's Relief Corps, and an elab-
crate program carried out during the
evening. They are engaged in an Of
ficial tour of this part of the state
visiting posts.
Prof Warner r. Clark of the uni
versity at Berkeley, assistant to Prof.
Woodwork. state entomoogist. Is
making a tour of this and Riverside
lllNtSllBdllIS iIle HldtlSl VI
fighting the red scale on orange trees.
Under the direction of Horticultural
Commissioner Pease of this city. this
variety of scale has never been al
lowed to gain n foothold in the or
chards in this county. the few places
that it has been found being subjected
to severe and successful treatment.
The proposed fight at Barstow has
been called off. Following the advice
from the district attorneys office on
the matter, Sheriff Ralphs has issued
orders to his deputies there that even
a free boxing bout shall not be per-
mitted to be pulled off, which has
stopped operations in that quarter.
Whether any further attempt will be
made by the promoters to pull off the
fight is not known.
William Vinson, the Salvation Army
man who is suing for divorce on the
grounds that his wife already had a
husband when she married him, has
thus far failed to establish his case
and is granted one more week by the
court to furnish proof that the woman
has never been divorced from her first
husband, which he has thus far failed
to do. Vinson claims the couple were
married at Flagstaff in 1899 and We're
never divorced.
Naval officers a Coronado.