The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1901, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL. : ¢ 5 CEMENTERIC VIADUCT G BEGINNING OF CONSTRULUCTION E TReE GAP PICTURE. SHOWIN ERMN END ©OF VIADUCT - OF LAST VIADUCT TO SO THE SANTA MARIA RIVER BRIDGE 12¢0 FT.LONG GREAT STEEL BRIDGE OVER SANTAC MARIA RIVER_ 12600 FT.L.ONG DHOYC D W < ROUSE. dicate that the cut Immediately after leaving the big bridges and viaducts a Lasdge p roundea, new road is built not only for heavy away off t for speed as well. the sun shir 's_run north from San Luis is seen the F Paso Robles is reached Apparently it stands upon a s ve seen California_ that ve carried before s . has treas- that juts far oyt Into the sea the cau: by tne fact that the magnifi an abrupt turn iust at this ore or more, ¢« ¥ s of Spanish around the mountain side. re many of o e for Caliente the mountain ran anta Ysabel, 1 se of vide, and a ¢ E u ver, en: s depth i g and farms, mendo duct r p £ v of rugged ble from the interior of the c hamlet of S: e herato- ist is whirled across this abyss ired , still In ex feet in the a a place of w low but a n roaring surf of the suc: n of mountains. cuts, viaducts would be redundant can remember them all i trip. nor a bhaif-dozen for that They are all interesting and each ows some new beauty of sea or mg n to chain of the senger. It hower fills in t is near Cajo about 1600 feet, quired 7.0 rock to buil station contains 245000 cuble yar other item of no small account bridge th s the Santa Mar . Tt is ed of seven span To complete the 5 r n the sixteen months 3 have been required to build it an ear it on the po force of 3000 horses and a corresponding Chautauqua of the number of men havé been constantly em- ploved. At Surf, where the new track joins the old, one of the finest marine views the world s to be se currents of the sea appear ben: upon coming ashore v &t this poin:, and it is said to be im T - X Sible fof any living thing to swim In the Wttle eitysof Santa Cruz. resembling a turbulent waters. Surf is at present an e England towm of five thousand. Tt enterprising town of three or four in- 2bounds in places of Interest to habitants. in additien to the raflway im- _The line from Santa Cruz to ployes stationed there. The most im- Is claimed by ma to be the mos portant individual is a white bull dog, €saue piece of road controlied by the and his owner is next in public esteem. Southern fic. The Santa Cruz Moun- The buildings of the Southern Pac tains are ab with nothing view be- of sand and the r process of devel promises to be interest m_as than has pose. above e landscape. hern terminus nber of v that Pacific Gro it rail, 1t rad, y dow f nterey is a fisherman and from the fact that In found almost ov: ariety of fish Pacifc is known as Nature's a On_the northern point of the bay » ravines and en conque gh, his scheme w n the the would period the fooi- give gradual ap- rangé had here been a. Towering n the’ boiling their sid-s 1l has been t and rugged and afford Company are substantial and commodi- 2 panorama of mo in ous. but aside from these, two or three equaled on the' coast. At Biz Tree St shacks and a saloon comprise the town. only a few miles from Sa Cruz, As scon as the regular traffic of the road of the largest of California’'s big i{s under way, however, Surf promises to trees are to be found and at various points become a place of some importance as Of the Santa Cruz line forests of giant red- there is some goed farming country wonds are passed through. Some of these 1o the north of it. The new Government latter are from twelve to fifteen feet In lighthouse at Polai Arguello is ble diameter. cenery un- between from this place. At Felton, Bouider, Ben Lomond, Glen- ep cut The immediate coast line is followed Wood and other stations on this | w { money toward the north from .Surf to within a rt hotels abound and every at- ed the roadbed now com- t costly bit of few mies of San Luis Obispo. The same magrificent land and marine views obtain nearly the way, but when the val at magnificent mountain resorts are at the tourist's disposal. the mountains toward mpara- Fiven. a ” will w0t except- south of San Luis Obispo is entered the Ney is gradual and thae r de- e £ sea is left and the tourist is afforded : scenery is grand. When the valley is s the entire cnange. San Luis Obiapo is one of Treached thc traveler enters a successfon the oldest settlements on the coast. of garde prune groves, apricot orchar: Tossed t Nestling in a beautitul valley, almost and vinevards reac almost to t! Los rounded by towebing mountain peak biils that surround Sen Franeisco. It is throug is an ideal spot for the artist or for California’s garden spot with something tourist in seareh of yulet and rest. The new, something grand. someth attrac- cts -ap- old Franciscan mission still stands, a tive to see at every turn. ' ok Nt portion of it rebuilt. but the old adobe _Between San Jose and San Franciseo the ! When walls still intact, as used by former wor- road is well known. No changes have yet er 1 ago th= shipers a cesntury age. The town is pret- been made, but the tunnels now being e on, only tily laid out, has good hotels and stores driven through the hills at South San being up. The and is a prosp us commun The Krancisco, when completed, will shorten railway shops gf e employment to a great the line somewhat and straighten it not number of men. The Ramona, a superb = little. modern hotel much frequented by _Through trains will be running early in tourists and Eastern people and is con- February. The daylight run will cover sider-d one of the popular resorts of Cali- the distance from Francisco to Santa fornia. Rarbara, and the running time to Los : voad runs graph, in whi he nler of the V! at the northern end cf the road is gives an fdea of Leaving San Luis Ooispo the trayeler Angeles for regular trains will be four- Wit “‘,“"“h -3 : plunges almost immediately into a suc- teen hours. Material changes will ba vere made, how e entire s cess.on of meuntain canyons so winding made in through train arrangements, al- and interminable as to cause him to won- though the officidls have not determined der how the engineers ever got out of the at this date just what these changes will maze they had made. The mountain be. In all probability the overland to passes are wiid and rugged and at one and from New Orleans will use the new int aimost above the town there is a line, and in addition there will be express orseshoe curve that dwarfs anything of train service and local trains between San u_similar character in the Alleghanies. Francisco Los Angeles. The new The old stage road to Santa Parbara runs road means much to the commerctal through these mountains, but it wiil soon world, as it opens up a new territory for Inge its usefuiness. A number of tunneis through business, and will enable produc- ss the road through the summit of the ers in Santa Clara, Monterey, San Luls oas: Range and the train emerges upon Obispo and Santa Barbara countles to gy % i & high plateau which gradually descends more promptly market their commodities . _to San Francieco fn about the vision causing rainbows of every sise to %o the level valleys beyond. At no point well as to compete with their more o hat a tri from New York to torm.m clouds of spray above the rolling on the road from end to end is there more favored brethren in the San Joaquin and 4 Foston requires, and after a breakers. At Gaviota another great via- . than a one per cent grade, and the heavy Sacramento valleys, who have been on e study of itineraries duct, £10 feet in length, is crossed and the cabins is seen nestling almost under the spans the entire town. Beyond this vil- yme. A towering mountain come~ down steel, weighing seventy-five pounds to the trunk lines of rallroads for years, id routes toward the porth, little Spanish settiement of shacks and weblike supports of the structure, which ‘lage is one of the typlcal views of the jnto the sea, the train entering a shallow yard, the rock ballast and substantial -~ - . ) ‘. viaduct was in place, although: not riv eted From Cementeria to Gaviota there is a bench along the beach which has been taken advantage of by the engineers. On this section of the road the passenger Is afforded view of the roughest surf known on the California coast south of San Franc except possibly at the 0 miles to y. town of Surf thirty miles further on. The treet car to Mon. elevation of the train above the Pacific is nd is surprised when Jjust ough to afford the best light and en't. He imagines he the most desirable view, the angle of GUA CALIENTE- ViAbucT AT