The San Francisco call., 1906-10-15

the division superintendents and their
assistants of Oakland and the coast di-
vision as to the best methods to be
employed to handle the vast volume of
business as expeditiously as possible.
Complaint has been made by the va
rious merchants that goods are de-
layede in delivery, and it is with the
object of remedying this that Mr.. Pal
mer held a. protracted session with Di-
vision Superintendent Scott and his as
sistant, A. w. Baker of Oakland and
with j. c. Wilder and his assistant.
r. K. Anthony of the coast division.
several measures were suggested
which promise to do away with the
present congestion, and it is the hope
of the railway officials that there viii
be no further reason for complaint on
the part of the business men of the
city.
G. w. Colby, general agent of the
Great Northern, returned Friday
from business trip to Stockton. Colby
reports that the San Joaquin Valley
was never in better shape.
There was a dog show while was
in Stockton" he said, and the people
were more interested in dogs than
anything else.
"A great deal of money has been put
in circulation this summer among the
fruit growers In that section of the
country. and their greatest profits
have been from melons. These have
been shipped to all parts of the coun-
try, and the growers about Lodi have
made good thing out of the crop.
rhil Gordon of the Washing gton-S Sun
set Route is on a business trip through
the mining regions of Nevada His
father, General Gordon, has been sud
denly called East owing to sickness IN
the family. and he left yesterday for
Washington. D. G.
Epes Randolph, who has more titles
than any other railroad man in the
country, writes that Arizona is enjoy
ing an unrivaled prosperity. Ran
dolph is not only building railroad in
Old Mexico, but he is building into Col
orado.
A. P Stewart of Rock Island. who
is known from one end of the country
to the other as Andy" returned Fri
day from Fresno. "Andy" has a
fresh stock of stories which he gath
cred up In the raisin belt.
Fresno is a coming town." he said.
Everybody there has money, and ev-
erybody is Wiling to part with it, and
not hold on to it as If that were the
last $50 gold piece in the world. The
,raisin crop has been large and prices
have been high, and when there is an
abundant crop and high prices there
are high doings. in the Raisin City.
Raisins brought 4 cents a pound this
year, and Henry Avila will tell you
that he has seen the time when they
were as low as three-quarters of a
cent in the sweat box. There is big
boom around Porterville, and the plac-
ing of that town on the map, as it
were, by having the trains to and from
Los Angeles pass through it will help
to develop that country amazingly
There is money for everybody who
goes about trying to corral it," re-
marked Henry Avila oracularly Fri
day, land a man can make big money,
and easy money, too, without the aid
of gas pipe. / know of several
young railroad fellows in Fresno and
thereabouts who bought piece of land
between Fresno and Clovis, and after
they had made their first payment they
had just enough money to record the
deed. Two days after they had 1t re-
corded they were offered 60 per cent
more than they had paid for it,"
F. A. Valentine, who Is holding down
a desk in the Canadian Pacific Office
in the ferry building. had his mind
greatly wrought up by the fire and
the possible dangers that follow in the
train of a big confagration have been
in his thoughts ever since. He was
talking business to lady Friday
at noon when the Berkeley football
team marched through the nave of the
ferry building and gave its college yell
At the same time there was a crash OF
drums.
Heavens shouted Valentine. as he
jumped from his chair and started for
the stairs, the building is coming
down"
F. Larken of the Southern Pacific
in company with the eminent COM
mander of the California Commandery
p F. Ferguson, left for Del Monte on
the flier Friday to make arrange
ments for the outing of the command
cry in the first. week of NEXT month
There will be about 400 knights and
their wives and daughters and sisters
on the excursion, which will be from
Saturday till Monday. There will be a
grand banquet in the evening of Sat
urday. to be followed by ball, and on
Sunday the visitors will take the fam
Gus drive
What we consider the height OF
effrontery has been brought to our no
tice by a letter we received on Friday
from a lady in Niagara Falls" re-
Southern Pacific yesterday. This per-
son wrote us and asked for the return
to her of money for an unused portion
of ticket from Niagara Falls to New
York. We, of course, looked up the
matter and found that the lady had
beep refugee and had been given a
ticket by the American National Red
Cross Society and that 1T had not cost
her cent Anything to beat a rail-
road, eh?"
e. NJ. Pomeroy, Pacific Coast freight
agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad
and r. w. Martindale, Pacific Coast
manager of the United States Castiron
Pipe Company, left Saturday night for
Southern California on a business trip.
They expect to be back toward the end
of next week.
Chauncey l.. Garfield, general agent
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul,
expects to have his book, The Diary of
'49er,' out within a few days. There
is already big demand for the book,
which is said to be vastly entertaining.
Garfield has plunged into literature be-
fore and is something of a poet.
H. M. MacGregor, travelling passen-
ger agent of the Union Pacific, is back
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