. The city and county of San Diego : illustrated and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers . hern California ague talk, like all the rest, was a perfect absurdity. In. 1S76 an attempt was made to get Congress to guarantee thebonds of the Texas Pacific Railroad. Mr. Horton and Mr. Felsenheldspent most of the winter in Washington lobbying with Colonel Scott. Butthe cry of no more subsidies to railroads arose in the East, and was atonce taken up by the Northwest, which wanted no Southern line. Theclamor of these two sections, aided by the power of railroads,
. The city and county of San Diego : illustrated and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers . hern California ague talk, like all the rest, was a perfect absurdity. In. 1S76 an attempt was made to get Congress to guarantee thebonds of the Texas Pacific Railroad. Mr. Horton and Mr. Felsenheldspent most of the winter in Washington lobbying with Colonel Scott. Butthe cry of no more subsidies to railroads arose in the East, and was atonce taken up by the Northwest, which wanted no Southern line. Theclamor of these two sections, aided by the power of railroads, that al-ready had all the subsidies they needed and never did need any compet-ing line, overcame the strong pressure brought to bear by the South,which was wholly in favor of the measure. This movement awoke no life in San Diego, and it slept on until1881, unbroken, except, in 1879, by a slight excitement of a few dayscaused by an unfounded railroad rumor. Out of this one real estateman made enough to justify the ordering of a new buggy froni SanFrancisco, but no one else was damaged in the upper story. r .^-3^. H2D-O U ocr Ed Q z <(/J THE LONG SLEEP. 23 In 1881 Frank A. Kimball, of National City, who had been aboutthe most tireless and liberal of all workers in behalf of the bay region,and has received for it the least credit of anyone, proposed to go toBoston to see if he could not induce the Atchison, Topeka and SantaFe, Railway to come to San Diego. He was answered with a generalguffaw from all the wise ones, and many of the leading citizens refusedto contribute a cent toward his expenses. His reply was that he wasable to pay them himself He went and bearded the great lion in hisden, amid the sneers of the public, who never can learn that it is veryunsafe to say what a man cannot do when he tries. He met nothing but rebuffs and cold shoulders. Nothing dauntedhe sat down for a prolonged siege. To his splendid offer of seventeenthousand acres of the best land on the bay,
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