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Southern Pacific Company,
MILLS BUILDING, 23 BROAD ST.

New York, January 25th, 1896

Mrs. Leland Stanford,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Stanford:

Your favor of January 24th, with the newspaper clippings en-
closed, came to hand this morning. Mr. Huntington was here at and before
the time mentioned in the clipping about the Monterey & Mexican Gulf R.R.
as the day when he passed through San Antonio. There is nothing in
that report.

We have been trying, for some time, to make reasonable traffic
arrangements with the M. & M. G. R. R., between Monterey and Trevino,
but there is no negotiation pending for the purchase, or lease, of the
M. & M. G. property. Probably it would be desirable to get control of
that road, if it could be done upon terms that would not be burdensome.

I have never heard, except from the clipping that you sent me,
that there was any purpose of building a hotel on the site of the old
Raymond, near Pasadena, and I take it for granted there is nothing in
this report.

As to the work between Santa Ynez River and Ellwood; that, no
doubt, is going on, but I do not apprehend that any extravagant con-
tracts will be made. As mentioned, when I saw you the other day, there
is, and has been for some years, an agreement not to suspend work on that
coast line until it is finished; but the work can proceed slowly, and
ought to. I have written to Col. Crocker more than once on this subject,