The Railroads: Items of Interest From The Steel Highways
. . . The Southern Pacific Bound to Go to San Diego . . .
Los Angeles Times, Mar 31, 1887, p. 8
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The S.P. and San Diego
Col, A.B. Hotchkiss, attorney for the Southern Pacific Railroad, talks to a San Diego Union reporter as follows: "Well, we are coming to this city. That is a settled fact. We have now a corps of engineers making the final and permanent survey between this city and Santa Ana. They are now this side of Oceanside and are coming through the interior at a rapid rate, not greatly diverging from the line of the San Diego Central. Concerning our route into the city I can give you no definite statements . . . "