The San Francisco call., 1907-03-08
Gossip of the Doings
of Railroad Men

The promoters of the Monterey.
Fresno and Eastern Railroad develop
new route every day" observed a
we'll known land owner of Fresno
County yesterday. They went before
the City Trustees OF Fresno and as
sured them that their line would go
through Hollister 10 Merced and
thence south between the lines of the
Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe to
Fresno. They seem to have expert
enced a change of heart since that an
nouncement. for they have interviewed
the owners of a large tract of land just
west of Fresno and told them that the
l-ne would run through the entire tract
in a due eastward course to Fresno.
The promoters allege that they have a
surveying party at work on q line
which will almost parallel the Southern
Pacific lines between Fresno and Ker-
man and be about three miles to the
north. Possibly the more routes pro-
jected the better the chances of the
promoters to float their bonds with
persons whose lands might be bene-
flied by the presence of the railroad"
Phil K. Gordon. general agent of the
Washington Sunset Route. and F. w.
Thompson of the Rock Island-Frisco
lines returned yesterday from their
trip to Tonopah and Goldfield
I'VE had an enjoyable trip" said
Gordon. I'm the party were William
Simms, T. Wilson, DR.. T. w. Hunting
ton. A. NJ Bergevin and ]. B. Quigley.
Clark, Dr. Coleman, f. Williams and
A B. Carey. We inspected the Ke-
wanas. the Goldfleld Consolidated and
the Mohawk We looked into the eight
developing leases of the Kewanas
property especially. One thing that
struck us forcibly was the change in
Goldfeld There is a greater air of
stability to the place and 1T is essen
TALLY the country of the young man.
There are many young fellows there
who, is in this city. would be mere
clerks. In Goldfeld they are prominent
business men and number of them
have rolled up fortunes of from $780,
600 to 100000 each. suppose this
is due to the fact that when they went
and nothing to lose and that made
them venturesome and winners.
General Superintendent w. S. Palmer
reports that the force at work repair
ing the tunnel at Wrights on the line
to Santa Cruz, which was destroyed
on April Is last year, has dug out a
number of slides and cleared all but
700 of the 5000 feet. The tunnel has
been enlarged a distance of 1888 feet
The work is exceedingly difficult, as
the tunnel is choked with debris and
timber and the ground badly broken.
The air is very foul and ventilators
are kept going constantly. Palmer
says that the organization is in good
shape and that after the workmen have
gone through the remaining 700 feet
and are provided an adequate supply
of fresh air the company will be bet
ter able to forecast the time when the
tunnel can be used for trains.
]. H. Queal, president of the Nc
Cloud River Railroad, has left Chicago
for home. While in the East he or
dered more equipment for his line and
was enabled to start on the way to
California seventy five flatcars, which
should have been here several months
ago. The terminus of the McCloud
River line is to be changed from Upton
TO Sisson. The road has been doing
an enormous business during the past
year owing TO the increased demand
for lumber. and there is every reason
to believe that the traffic will be much
greater during the coming year Some
idea of the size of the trees that are
cut down in that part of the State
can be gathered from the fact that it
required the services of seven f1atcars
to haul one tree, which had been sawed
into sections. The total number OF
feet of timber in this tree was 1880
The arbitration board which is to
settle the differences between the teleg-
raphers and the Southern Pacific
Company will meet in this city on
March 16 and not in Washington. as
was originally intended. The board
viii consist of r. H. Ingram, Profess
sor Emery r. Johnson of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania and H. b. Perham,
head of the order of Railway Teleg-
raphers.
Twenty cars of the new Pacific Fruit
Express are being received in Cali
fornia daily. the total now available
being 700. 1t has not been decided as
yet whether the Pacific Fruit Express
shall handle green fruit this year.
Hartman has sent out orders that
there is to be no change made in the
handling of fruit until the Pacific