The San Francisco call., 1907-06-25
In Railway Circles

r ULIUS KRUTTSCHNITT, director
of maintenance and operation, left
s Sacramento early yesterday morn
ing and passed the night at Stock
ton. According to his program as given
out last night he would today go as far
as Fresno and reach the city some time
tonight
In accordance with the ruling of the
interstate commerce commission the
Southern Pacific will take out party
rates made especially for baseball
teams and theatrical companies on in
terstate trips. This will not affect
business within the state. The COM
mission is divided as to whether the
present rates are legal. but the ma
jority of the commission is OF the
opinion that they are not, and the rail-
road decided to fall in line with the
decision, though it is understood that
the legal department of the Southern
Pacific has passed an opinion that rates
not open to the public generally can DE
made for organizations which travel
good deal and play to paid admis-
sions, provided all such organizations
are treated alike.
Plans have been prepared in the Of
flee of ]. II. Wallace, assistant chief en-
gineer of the Southern Pacific. for q
new depot at Tucson which is to cost
s65, ,000 1t is to be in Spanish renais-
sance- and built with view to cool
ness. Every convenience that can be
found in modern depot will be found
in this one.
w. H Watts. general manager of
the Utah construction company, has
been in the city consulting with Chief
Engineer Virgil G. Bogue about the
work on the Western Pacific. He Is
puzzled why he cannot get more men to
work on the line, and says that as the
road is being built in a climate which
cannot be surpassed for health, while
the streams afford unlimited sport for
the angler and the mountains are full
of game, he thinks that to work In
those regions is like taking vaca-
ton. 1t appears that the men he has
had there drilling a tunnel through
the mountain side do not entirely share
his views
In speaking of the work Watts says
that the tunnels should be completed
within a year and shortly after that
time the road will be in operation.
Watts has the biggest contract for
railroad construction in the country. as
he is building from Oroville to Salt
Lake City. He keeps in close touch
with all that is being done on the
Gould line and thinks the road will
surprise everybody. as it will be run
ming before people are aware of Il.
He bases his remarks on the fact that
construction is going on at both ends
at Stockton, Marysville and Beclxwith,
and it will not take long to join the
sections together. Vast quantities of
steel are being hurried west for bridge
building which will be thrown OF at
the nearest points at which the bridges
are to be built
Some eight locomotives have been
received by the Western Pacific and are
at Boca, Stockton and Marysville, where
they are being changed from coal to
oil burners and will, when this is f3n-
ished, be used in construction work.
The officials of the Western Pacific
have not determined as yet whether
their motive power Is to be coal or OIL
Some have advanced the theory that
the line will be an electric one. but
no one in this city will corroborate the
report.
]. H Queal, president and general
manager of the McCloud River railroad.
has officially announced that J. C.
Wilder has been appointed superfn-
tehdent of his company, with head
quarters at Mccloud.
e. E. Calvin, vice president and gem
eral manager OF the Southern Pacific.
who has been on a tour of inspection
of the southern district, has returned.
f. w. NJ. Cutcheon. general counsel
of the western Pacific, is In the city
and will be here for few weeks.