Imperial Valley press., 1909-09-11
New Contracts Put an End to Doubts in Regard to the
 Railroads Future
Material Ordered for Laying of Line Twenty Miles Into Mexico on It's Way Towards Imperial VaIIey-Lo- comotive and Cars Arriving at San Diego.

Highly gratifying is | le news which comes from San Diego of the progress made on the first seventeen miles of construction on the San Diego & Ari- zona Railroad, and the later reports made last week that orders have been placed for fifty carloads of steel rails and ten carloads of fastenings, to be used in the construction of twenty miles in Mexico south of Tia Juana.
 The contract stipulates that all the material shall be on the ground by the first of the year. The ralls will be furnished by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company of Pueblo, and will weigh 2000 tons. They will be the heaviest type of rail now used in rail- road building. The fastenings will be furnished by Pittsburg concern.
 As the work on the stretch of road from San Diego to the Mexican line will be completed by January, and the contract for the new material calls for delivery by the end of the year, it is apparent there will be little delay in pushing the road into Mexican terri tory.
 Work of laying steel just now is de- layed by the failure of material to ar rive. Especial need is felt for five cars of the plates which were ordered June 26, but which are still enroute. This is due to car congestion on all Eastern lines. However, work is pro- gressing as rapidly as possible.
 Announcement is also made that the 10000 ties ordered from the North will from now on pour into San Die go in a stream The first consign- ment of $500 ties will arrive there Monday on the schooner Bowling. From that date the contract calls tor cargo arriving every twenty days.
 The locomotive, forty-six cars, ca boose and two tank cars which have been ordered from Columbus, Ohio, are also expected to arrive within thirty to forty days and will be used to distribute building material along the right of way as the work pro- gresses. At present the Santa Fe is distributing the rails and ties, running onto the new line from a switch at Twenty eighth street.
 The San Diego Union, Spreckles' own paper, says:
 "The people of this city have become so accustomed to the fact that the actual construction of the San Diego &Arizona railway is in progress, that announcements from time to time of the successive steps in that undertak- ing are regarded quite naturally as mere matters of detail Still, this mornings news-the contract for rails for twenty miles of road in Mexico and their delivery in the near future will be read with more than passing interest. IL is the one thing that was needed to put an end to the last doubts, if any existed, in regard to the future of the road.
 Tt may be questioned that any in telligent people in San Diego have been entertaining even remote doubts that the San Diego $ Arizona rail way is to be built, as previously an nounced. But because that part of the line on which construction is in progress extends only to the Mexican boundary, it has become fashion with some newspapers in other parts of Southern California to affect to be- lieve that nothing more is contem- plated than a railway from this city to the border line of Southern Cali