The San Francisco call., 1906-12-29
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
GIVES OUT PLAN
Makes Public Details of
Reconstruction at Head
of the Broad-Gauge Mole
FILL OF TIDE LANDS

OAKLAND, Dec 2s.-The Southern
Pacific Company has made public the
plans under which it purposes to re-
construct it's track system at the head
of the broad gauge mole. take in a
large tract of tide lands inside the
Realty Syndicate's bulkhead, where
that corporation plans extensive docks,
eliminate Death Curve" and generally
change the whole plan of train hand
ling from the Sixteenth-street station
TO Oakland pier and the West Oakland
freight yards.
Whether the Hartman lines pro-
posed moves viii force a conflict with
the Syndicate people is not to be deter
mined until the definite lines of the
new tracks are ascertained.
The company, so far as the maps
filed today with condemnation suits
in the Superior Court show, intends
TO straighten its main line approach
TO the mole from the north and TO get
possession of a considerable property
on the north side of the mole, both in
tidelands and uplands, for trackage
and freight yard purposes.
According TO the general scheme out
lined in the suits that were brought
today, the company desires to con-
denim outright large pieces of prop
erty. The suits are not confined to
rights of way.
LINE OF NEW TRACKS
The maps and complaints show that
the new line of tracks Will leave the
old line north of Seward street, which
corresponds closely to a continuation
Of Tenth street. and viii swing out
toward the bay in a gentle curve TO
the mole, which it will meet at a con-
siderable distance from the shore line
marked by high tide
Midway on this new line a branch
wiz run off to the West Oakland
freight yards. The advantage of this
change in route is most apparent on
the maps, both considerable distance
and curve being eliminated. The com
plant sets forth that the change in
route between the Sixteenth street
station and the end of the mole was
determined upon at a meeting of the
board Of directors of the Southern Pa
cific Company held in San Francisco
on December g.
The defendants in the two condemna
tion suits filed today are the Conti-
mental Investment Company and Mrs.
Belle Johnson The company sued Mrs
johnson to acquire the entire northern
half of the block bounded by Short,
Bay and Goss streets and the shore
line OF lne pay, over which both the
new passenger and new branch freight
lines of the Hartman road will pass
This suit is for the land and not merely
for a right of way, the complaint
stating that the land is necessary for
terminal grounds and yards.
TIDE LANDS TO BE FILLED
The Continental Investment Com
pany is sued for two PARCELS of land
IN the block bounded by Goss. Bay and
Seventh streets and the shore line of
the bay. over only one parcel does a
proposed railroad track pass. The
greater part of the new lines pass
over tide lands that win have to be
filled in and that lie back of the bulk
head recently constructed by the
Realty Syndicate interests from the
Key Route pier TO the Southern Pa
cific broad-gauge mole.
It is the evident purpose of the
Southern Pacific not only to run its
tracks in a more direct line to the end
of the mole, but also to establish
freight yards and other terminal
facilities in the land ii intends to ac-
quire between its present tracks and
those it will build farther out from
the present shore line.
The plans call for the expenditure
Of large amount of money by the
company. The indications are that the
company projects large improvements
on the north side of the mole not un-
IKE those that have been completed
on the south side, where new freight
slips, piers and large trackage ex-
tensions have been provided