Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18
PACIFIC ELECTRIC
TO BE EXTENDED
TO SAN DIEGO
ROUTE WILL GO THROUGH SAN
BERNARDIN0
LARGE IRRIGATION PROJECT is
PLANNED
Second and Shorter Line Contem-
plated Via Santa Ana and Ocean,
slde-May Run to Tia
Juana

That the extension of e. H. Hunting
toms Pacific Electric railway through
to San Diego is an assured fact, The
Herald is in position to announce. In
formation obtained from a most relia-
BILE source and given exclusively to
as first off the reel
Whether, by the time this new cleo
trio line which will connect Los An
geles with San Diego and open up an
immensely rich territory to the COM
merce of Los Angeles, is completed,
this electric system will be known to
the general public as the Huntington"
Pacific Electric railway system, or that
the name will have been changed to
the Hartman" Southern Pacific Elec-
trio railway system, is a question
which cannot be definitely answered
at this time, although persistent ru-
mors have 1t that e. H. Hartman will
be in control of the Pacific Electric
railway property before long. How
ever the ownership of this railway
may be in the near future, it is fact
that this extension of the Pacific Elec-
trio line to San Diego will open up
territory undreamed of by the average
Californian and to the easterner
Terra IlrIlld lnCOBHllO.
Route Surveyed
The new road probably will be
brought down the valley from River
side via Aqua Tibia and through the
Warner ranch, the latter property be-
ing owned by H. e. Huntington, and
then follow the San Luis Rey river to
Oceanside and from there south along
the coast, entering San Diego along
parallel lines with the Santa Fe rail-
road. The connecting link between
Riverside and Los Angeles will be San
Bernardino. the rails of the San Ber-
nardino Valley Traction company,
which now operates about thirty miles
of electric line and is owned by the
Huntington interests, to be used.
The connection between San Bernar-
dino and Los Angeles is to be made by
the building of a line along the foot
hills from San Bernardino to Glendora,
thus forming the through line from
Los Angeles to San Diego via Glendora,
San Bernardino. Riverside, Oceanside,
San Marcos, Del Mar, Carlsbad, En-
cinitas and Esconido.
second and shorter route is con-
templated. the intention being to re-
duce the distance between Los Angeles
and San Diego, the longer route via
San Bernardino being intended to tap
all the available territory possible, and
main line, to afford adequate trans
portation facilities to the entire section
of the country to be opened up. This
shorter route, or cutoff is to be built
from Santa Ana to Oceanside in an air
line, connecting at Oceanside with the
main line tosSan Diego.
irrigation Projected
The irrigation project is one of the
most StupendouS ever attempted in
Southern California. Work on the big
Warner ranch dam is already in prog
ress and is being pushed as rapidly
as conditions will allow. This dam is
being constructed at the head of the
San Luis Rey conyon, where the noun
tains come together making almost
natural reservoir, and will flow the
water back over a valley covering 5000
acres at an average depth of sixty feet.
Lying Immediately on the west of
this great reservoir is the San Marcos
valley, containing $4,000 acres of the
most fertile kind of land, which will
be indescribably productive when once
Watered.
The great Warner ranch, MIR. Hunt
ington's individual property, is located
in the Smith and Pine mountains at
an elevation of approximately 5000 feet,
and these mountains form the source
of water supply for the San Luis Rey
river.
Some idea of the magnitude of this
great irrigation proposition may be
gained when it is said that the ter
ritory to be watered under this sys
tenn embraces the entire San Luis Rey
valley. the mesa lands around Fall
Brook, the valley called the Monserrate
rancho the Palo valley, the Pauma
valley and the Aqua Tibia ranch, to-
falling something over 100000 acres of
the most fertile lands in the United
States. if not in the whole world.
Line May Go to Mexico
The surveys on the irrigation propo-
sltion have all been completed and
demonstrates that there is a water
shed above the storage reservoir at
Warmers ranch covering an area of
246 miles square miles of the highest
mountains in San Diego county. There
is but one tunnel necessary, about 2300
feet in length, which will save some
seven miles of flume. There are two
drops to make in the entire PROPOSE
ton, one of 200 feet and one of 300 feet,
which will run the water into the dis
tributing reservoir on the Warner
ranch, from which point it will be
taken wherever needed over the entire
area described.
1t is known fact that the little
"dinkey" line which runs between San
Diego across the border to the Mexican
town of Tia Juana has been the sub
ject of no little dickering in the recent
past, in view of the establishment of a
race course at Tia Juana. since racing
has been outlawed in California This
concession would be valuable adj
junct to the Huntington electric line.
as the road could be operated quite
economically in connection with the
power station which will necessarily
have to be established at San Diego
to furnish power for the line to Los
Angeles, and it Is not at all unlikely
that Mr. Huntington has his eye on
this piece of property, as he is fully
aware of hat his line to the Santa
Anita race track has been earning, and
it is more than probable that he would
like to have an electric line leading to
the Tia Juana race track to take the
place of the Santa Anita spur, which,
after this seasons racing, will be a
productive piece of track.
Discouraging
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