Show THE WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD j r The interest created by the coming of the Western Vestern Pacific Railroad l 1 ri i ia has lias not been equaled since the advent of the th first overland ove land train a nearly half a century ago says the San Francisco Chronicle The Southern Pacific monopoly of course was broken by the i coming oming c of the Santa Fe line that road crept in gradually with without without 1 cOut out any spectacular effect and while it has given us competition 1 ii t of service se ic it added comparatively little new territory to the trade I of this city The advent of the Western Pacific is quite another matter beJ be because bet t J r cause m in addition to the competition of service not only in trans transcontinental transI I continental but transpacific traffic it opens op ns up large largo districts here heretofore II p almost inaccessible which arc or will soon become product productive N I I I 1 ive of large business The road comes also as M a single completed unit whose whole progress i I 1 we have been watching ng for several years as it overcame one great eat obstacle after another so that its final inauguration of passenger j 1 traffic is in the nature of a climax to a rather spectacular career p I It is the public interest thus excited in addition to the great ma material material tonal advantages which the road brings which resulted in the most enthusiastic demonstration at Oakland on last Monday at the end of a journey which was a a continuous ovation during its course I through three states Central California Cal is is now fairly launched upon an era of devel development development develoPment which California has seen as the area and resources of the groat valley of California exceed those of other sections of this r state I Colonization is now going on in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys on a basis of irrigation but solidly and with no inflated r p boom or excitement but simply straight and ancl solid building up Electric roads are the valley one between Stockton and just now opened in competition with the steam lines These movements will of themselves be equivalent to opening a anew anew anew new empire to our trade and with the territory added by the tho Western Pacific will justify just y the enthusiasm of the people of the tho 7 bay cities as displayed in Oakland last Monday |