The San Francisco call., 1906-10-15
Gossip in Railroad Circles.

! southern part of Oregon" said Nc
Murray, and the klamath reclamation
project has worked wonders. We are
confident that we will have in the
klamath country the great celery beds
of the United States.
Il want to tell you one thing which
you people in California do not realize
We have in the Umpqua Canyon seen
cry as beautiful as in the Yosemite, and
the new line from Drain to Coos Bay
Will open up country which viii make
it the greatest scenic line in the world.
than the Rogue River Valley Oregon
is booming. We have had the biggest
hop crop ever known and we had all
the help that was needed"
The Walker Indian Reservation is to
be opened up for settlement on the 29th
of this month. The California and Ne
vada road runs through the reserva-
tion and advices have been received
that the line expects to do good busi-
ness with homeseekers. The reserva-
tion, which is in Nevada and fed by
the waters of Walker Lake. contains
100000 acres and some of the land is
particularly good.
Frank c. Casey has been made chief
clerk in John a. Gilrs office. Casey
came here from Los Angeles. where he
was chief clerk in the freight Offices
of the New York Central lines. His
place has been filled by w. Jones. who
was with the Chicago and Northwest
ern in Salt Lake City.
Floyd Judah will be missed greatly
during the present duck season by
railroad men. Floyd was a hunter of
renown. He rarely let a Sunday pass
without being at one Of the marshes
and he always brought back a large
string of ducks. Tt was Fioyd's great
and every season regularly he had pre-
pared for the newspaper men a series
OF articles showing where the ducks
were plentiful. Floyd had the credit
of being the best shot as far as ducks
were concerned in the Southern Pacific.
The Southern Pacific has contracted
with the Atlantic de Forest Wireless
Company for wireless telegraph equip
ment for its new steamships Momus,
Antilles and Creole.
The Southern Pacific, the Texas and
Pacific and the Missouri. Kansas and
Texas have formed the Southern Fruit
Dispatch for the rapid transportation
OF fruit to Kansas City. ST. Louis and
Chicago. The first train will leave Los
Angeles today.
The Southern Railway has prepared
readable pamphlets, accompanied with
maps. of the Ter-Centennal Exposition
at jamestown, which is to open on
April 26, 1907. and will close on No
vember 80 of the same year. This
exposition viii celebrate the three hun
dredth anniversary of the landing of
the expedition of which John Smith
was member
The Southern Railway is arranging
for specialsrates and stopovers for ex-
position purposes, and it is believed
that great business will be done by
that line to the exposition.
"Tramps don't like limited trains to
ride upon on this coast" remarked
Phil Jordan. 1T isn't that they OBJ
ject TO fast riding. but there are GER
tain inconvenience attaching to a linn
tied or fast mail which upsets their
equilibrium.
The Washington Sunset runs a fast
train which scoops up water. and a
tramp got on the train at Atlanta and
hid himself on the blind baggage just
behind the tender. When the fast mail
stopped at Lynchburg the tramp got
off, wet to the skin, and mad as hat
ter, for the scoop had not only filed
the boiler but had drenched him.
The conductor was standing by the
car when the tramp walked up to him,
and, shaking himself like a big dog,
said in laundering tones:
Say, conductor, what were them
two rivers we ran through a while
back? +"