Railroad mass meeting

Broadside announcement for a meeting to discuss plans to build a railroad from San Diego to El Centro and Yuma. Since the 1860s San Diego had hoped to become the western terminus for a transcontinental railroad. Efforts floundered including the present "People's Railroad" plan which sought a direct route east for the agricultural products of Imperial Valley. Conflicts existed among competing interests which included Imperial Valley residents, San Diego business people and the Southern Pacific. By 1906 John Spreckels provided leadership and financing to build the San Diego & Arizona Railway, completed in 1919

• 1904?

• Crowe, H. G
• Elliott, F. M
• Folson, M. W
• Haines, A
• Morse, Philip
• Rogers, W. R
• Stearns, F. W

1 broadside : ill ; 57 x 27 cm

text

"A Mass Meeting to consider a plan for the building of a People's Railroad Is hereby called for at The ISIS THEATRE, To-Night, at 7:30 O'clock."

• San Diego (California)

• 1900-1999

• History
• Sources

• Railroads

• text

[San Diego], The People's Railroad Committee

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2020-10-28