The San Francisco call., 1907-06-05
In Railway Circles

~ EvERAL train loads of scrapers.
horses and graders outfits have
~ been received at San Jose from
Yuma and. taken out over the
electric line to the western part
of the Santa Clara valley to work
in conjunction with the Mayfield-
Los Gatos cut off, which is now
being graded. 1t is expected that the
new line will be finished in about so
days. The right of way, 100 feet wide,
is now being cleared of trees and grad
ing has been done for a third of the
distance. The Congress Springs prop
erty of 525 acres has been acquired by
the Peninsula railway. the electric ally
of the Southern Pacific. which operates
the San Jose and Los Gatos interurban
system, and which will also operate an
electric railway on the same right of
way with the Southern Pacific May
field-Los Gatos cut off. This resort
will be one and half hours from the
city.
Along the cut off two new towns are
being started. One of these, three
miles back Of Mountain View, is be-
tween the new site of the Santa Clara
college and Stanford university, and
will have fine depot for steam and
electric lines. 1t is located on the old
chester, widow of the famous manufac-
turer OF firearms. 1t is surrounded by
a rich fruit district and several fine
country homes.
The second town is to be at the
junction OF the interurban electric
railway, westward from San Jose eight
miles, and the cut off, 1t has also
beautiful location adjoining the foot
hills. 1t Is expected that the construc-
ton of this line along the foothills will
vastly increase the suburban popula-
ton out of San Francisco for people
who can afford short business hours
in this city.
II. J. Merrick, superintendent of
freight transportation of the New
York Central lines. in his weekly re-
view of the car situation, says that
there is a good supply of box cars in
the country and that their lines are
well equipped with furniture cars of
the 40-foot kind, owing to the western
lines being more prompt In their re-
turn. Some cars, 50-foot. are being
held back by the western connections,
and Merrick urges all agents to be
more persistent in seeing to their re-
turn. Automobile cars are being sent
back more speedily, and. coupled with
the fact that 500 new seven foot door
vans are coming out Of their shops,
the Vanderbilt lines are In better shape
than they have been for the last
eight months. In summing up Merrick
remarks: From the best information
obtalnable we learn that the general
conditions all over the country are be-
coming easy. Some lines report hav4
ing surplus of box cars. AS far
as our own lines are concerned we do
not expect any difficulty in protecting
shipments for some time, with the pos
sible exception OF coal cars"
T. Nh Schumacher, general trafic
manager Of the Ell Paso Southwestern.
arrived in the city yesterday on his
regular inspection trip. In speaking
OF the situation he remarked that his
line in common with others had all it
could do. There Is big boom In all
the mining camps in Arizona and New
Mexico and the country is most pros
porous. We have abandoned our in
tention for the present of building the
cut on from Dawson to Corona owing
to the great increase in price of ma
terial and also OF labor. This cut of
will be 200 miles long in order to
avoid so miles of bad grade"
Schumacher expects to be in the city
for about week
Joseph McI1roy of the Missouri, KAN
sas ana Texas has left for an extended
trip through tho northwest and will be
absent about 10 days.