Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXXI, Number 270, 25 June 1904 — NEW TROLLEY LINE IS IN PROSPECT • – Southern Pacific May Change Local Road [ARTICLE]

NEW TROLLEY LINE IS IN PROSPECT • - Southern Pacific May Change Local Road

SANTA MONICA, June 24.—1t is reported that the Southern Pacific company has under consideration the conversion of its steam railway from Santa Monica or Port Los Angeles to Los Angeles into a trolley line, it is said that surveyors who have recently been seen In the field belong to the Southern Pacific crews, and their object is supposed to be to seek out a shorter and more direct route, a's well as to find entrance into Los Angeles from the west by an air line. Such a line, touching both Sawtelle and the Palms, would afford the beaches here a competing line, which has long been the desire of the residents.