Resolution 00789RESOLNTION NO. 789.
GRANTIN3 A TEMTORARY PERMIT TO :HE SOUTHERN PACIYIC COMPANY
TO OPERATE INDUSTRIAL SWITCHING SERVICE.
WHEREAS, the County of Alameda desires to construct a tube connecting
the City of Alameda with the City of Oakland near the northerly and of Webster
Street, and or that purpose desires to remove the existing railroad tracks of
the Central Pacific Railway Company where they cross Webster Street in the loca-
tion of the croposed tube, in order to avoid the expense of maintaining said
tracks under operation during the construction of said tube, and to secure ea-
thority from the City of Alameda. to operate industrial switching service of the
Southern Pacific Company along the so-called Lincoln Avenue line west of Mastick
Station; and
WHEREAS, in the judgment of the Council of the City of Alameda it is
to the interest of the City of Alameda to cooperate with the County in the con-
struction of said tube by providing for the re-routing of such steam industrial
switching service accordingly during said period of the construction of the said
tube;
NOW, therefore, be it resolved that the consent of the City of Alameda
is hereby given to the operation of industrial switching service by Southern
Pacific Company by means of steam locomotives over those certain tracks maintained
under Ordinance 413 and 504 of the City of Alameda, particularly described as
follows, to-wit:
(a) A single track beginning at a point approximately 100' easterly
from the east line of Second Street; thence continuing easterly along
Pacific Avenue to a point near the northerly line of Fourth Street;
thence carving along private property to a point neur the southerly
intersection of the west line of Fifth Street and the northerly line
of Lincoln Avenue.
(b) A double tracl: beginning at a point on the westerly line of
Fifth Street near its intersection with the northerly line of Lin-
coln Avenue; thence curving into Lincoln Avenue and running east-
erly along and upon said Lincoln Avenue to a connection with the
existing railroad of the Central Pacific Railway Company at Mastick
Station on said Lincoln Avenue near Prospect Street.
Such operation by steam locomotives may be conducted only during each
period as the County of Alameda may find it necessary or advisable to remove the
existing tracts of the Central Pacific Railway Company where they intersect the
location of the proposed tube between Oakland and Alameda at or near the northerly
end of Webster Street, Alameda, during the period of the construction of said tube.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was
duly and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda
in regular meeting assembled on the 5th day of August, 1924, by the following
vote, to wit:
Resolution Tip. 789.
AYES: Councilmen Latham, Probst, Neise, Ti en and President Otis, (5).
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
IN TESTIMONY 9H2REOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official
seal of said city this 6th day of August, 1924.
W. E. V1RCCE,
City Clerk of the City of Alameda.
(Seal of the City of Alameda).
1hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
"Resolution 70. 789. Granting a Temporary Permit to the Southern racific Company
to Operate Industrial Switching Service", passed by the Council of the City of
Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 5th day of August, 1924.
'':City Clerk of the City of Alameda.