The San Francisco call., 1906-10-18

the best OF authority that on hot
day there is more iced lemonade drunk
there than beer. or course. when beer
first reached town there vas run
upon It. and the report y tnat tne
patrons Of one saloon alone IN az
incredibly short space OF time drank
up Ave carloads Of beer Goldheid
was built up By capital from Utah and
Nevada San Francisco has enjoyed
her trade"
Roy A. Murray. city passenger agent
ot the Great Northern, has LETT Tor
washing gton, D. c.. to marry Miss Isa-
balIa stern. Miss stern was a resident
of this city till the time OF the dis
aster. After the FIRE she left Tor
Washington. but has decided to return
here as Mrs. Murray MI ana Mrs
Murray will make their home at BerKe-
ley.
A o.tinger was for the hrst time
Yesterday able TO return to business
since the runaway accident In the park
which disabled him.
Thomas Fassett, travelling freigat
and passenger agent Of the southern
pacific at San Jose, was in town yes
terday.
w H. Davenport 0A lAN
Midland has returned from Los An
geles. where he was on business con-
nected with his company
The foreign agents who are in the
civ are in constant receipt Of letters
from their home Offices, telling them
to bend all their energies TO ma ana
have returned to them the cars wnicn
are detained upon this coast Is
estimated that there are at least zoVV
cars held by the lines upon this coast
one Of the agents. in speaking about
the matter. said: Our lives are made
miserable by the home ONCE asking US
70 locate these cars. All the big cars
are in demand in the East at present
because coal IS being moved NOW
the cars that are kept here are the big
gondoIas. which have capaoity OF
100 600 pounds These cars are most
usefu1 in hauling debris and there Is
one line which has found them so use
full that II will not give them up.
"a railroad man who happened to be
n, san lose the other day saw some OF
the New York Central cars at the
old narrow gauge depot I am told
that there were about six of these cars
there"
z. NJ. Thompson of the Rock Island
has returned from Goldfeld and Tono-
pah. and says that IL man would put
up a small and frst-class hotel at
Goidheld he would coin money. There
is a big want of hotel accommodations
in that place, and a man who goes
into that business will accumulate
small fortune IN short time.
Ever since President Roosevelt Wis
tied the Yosemite Valley he has had
set
road man yesterday. TT is known that
the President has large plans for it's
Development in good roads. trails and
suitable hotels Some time ago the
CRYING need for hotel Accommodations
became so apparent that many Califor-
MIA citizens including the railroad traf-
fic managers. university presidents and
capitalists and others, induced f. A.
Miller of Riverside to take UP the
project. He went TO Washington, had
interviews with the President and
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock,
and. supported by such men as DR.. AL
bert Shaw OF the Review of Reviews,
DR.. LYMAN r. Abbott, Jacob A. Riis.
DR.. wheeler of the University OF Cali
fornia and DR.. David Starr Jordan OF
Stanford, who wrote and spoke in mis-
behalf, has been given the exclusive
right to build and operate hotels in
L
the Yosemite will cost s1.0oo,oo0 and
will be built OF stone. It Is 70 con-
form in It's architecture with the feat
ures OF the valley so as 70 be not in
varying contrast with them
"A railroad is now being built from
Merced to Merced Canyon to the Val
ley line 1t Is now within twenty
miles Of the terminus. There are more
than 1000 men employed and by the
- ~x-sIT
reached the terminus. six miles from
the park line. Thence stages will take
the passengers over new road to the
heart Of the valley. A. @. Wishon.
who is the manager Of the Huntington
lines in Fresno, has his surveyors out
surveying a line into the valley. This
will be an electric road, and 1t is safe
to say that the Southern Pacific and
the Santa Fe will enter into traffic
ARRANGEMENTS with 1t so as to send
their passengers over the road. thus
forming a loop"
A. C. Jackson, who is In charge OF
the bureau of statistics for the South
ern Pacific, will leave about the first
OF the month for Portland. where he
will assume charge Of the advertising
lines in Oregon and also of the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation Company.
Announcement was made yesterday
that the colonist rate would be with
drawn on October 15. This is an
error. The rate will be continued until
October 81. The Southern Pacific car
ried 10000 colonists TO the State since
September 1. and they are now coming
in at the rate of TOO day. It is esti-
mated. therefore. that the total will
reacr $4,000. or more than were
brought to the state last spring The
rates will be continued again next
Snrfur and next fall