The San Francisco call., 1908-09-01
Gossip of RaiIwayrnen

w. c. Donnelly. the scientific rate
maker of the Santa Fe. has gone on
vacation ard will be absent from his
desk for three weeks. What will hap
pen in the. rate world during these
three weeks no one knews.
Donnelly will spend his three weeks
at Chipps island. of which he is suze-
rain: Chipps island supports shoot
ing club. Members who Joined this
shooting club say there is nothing to
shoot on the island, and the friends of
the members who We're promised fat
mallards. teal and canvasback persist
in calling it the Cheap island shooting
club. for their larders never were sup
piled with game by Donnelly's hunters.
The season was poor last year."
said Donnelly,. but l can promise the
men who join the club this year that
they will have the finest shooting In
California.
.''I am stocking the place. L am
taking up an incubator and will hatch
OUT several thousand duck eggs. The
man there is instructed to pet the
ducklings so that they do not fly. but
will come and eat out of your hand.
Perhaps by my method of stocking
duck ponds member may be able to
kill bird once in awhile.
Our Mr.. Hayden approves of my
ideas and Mr.. Anewalt thinks they are
immense. Well, don't know about
Mr.. Bissell The truth is he belongs to
the old fashioned class of sportsmen
and thinks the more difficulty a man
has to encounter the greater the fun.
Il am progressive sportsman me
self and want to make shooting as easy
as taking a drink. That's the way to
make hunting club a success. If you
don't think so. ask. Bodie K. Smith,
L. A. Mares. who is well known in
the San Joaquin valley, is the president
of the electric line to be built from
Hanford to Fresno. Mares is man of
great wealth himself and represented
much English capital in the Laguna de
Tache. His name gives weight to the
scheme and it is believed now that the
road will be built.
A b. Clark of Fresno is also con-
nected with the enterprise. 1t is the
intention of the promoters to begin
work at once and they are negotiating
with the Fresno traction company for
the use of the tracks from Sunnyside
into Fresno.
Since Mares name has been men
toned farmers have been more eoncilia-
tory in their attitude toward the new
electric line and rights of way have
been granted. 1t will pass through an
exceptionally rich farming and dairy
country and will touch Fowler, Selma
and Kingsburg. all prosperous towns.
A start has been made toward build
ing the railway to Hudson bay, and
two location parties have left Winni-
peg for the north in connection with
the preliminary survey of the Hudson
bay railway. They will travel over the
Canadian Northern as far as Winni-
pegosis, where boats will be taken TO
the north side of the lake. Both par
ties will work northward, one from
the pass and the other from a point
about 100 miles north of the present
railway terminus.
The government will build this road
and equip ii, and it is expected that
all grain will be moved by this route
within two years.
The Great Northern, Northern Pa
cifc, Canadian Pacific and the Oregon
Railway and Navigation company held
conference recently with D. W. Spen-
Ger, superintendent of the transconti-
mental inspection bureau, at Portland
The questions which came ND for dis
cussion with the California lines were
the same rulings for the sake of uni
formity.
With the reissue of the north Pa
cific coast transcontinental tariff, east
and west bound. I'd and 4c, the lines
in California will be placed in DO
sition to handle traffic to and from
eastern defined territories and north
Pacific coast terminals. via San Fran
cisco, and the Alaska Pacific steam
ship company.