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The San Joaquin Valley main line of the Southern

Pacific Railroaf travels through this area. It enters the

district by way of the San Fernando Tunnel near Highway
99, comes in Railroad Cenyon south of Newhall and then fol-

lows San Fernando Road to Soledad Canyon thence north to

Palmdale, Lancaster, and Mojave. At Saugus the Southern

Pacific has maintenance headquarters and a pumping plant.

Also at Saugus a branch line of the Southern Pacific runs
west to Fillmore, Santa Paula and Ventura.

Historical Sketch. The William S. Hart Union High

School District has been in existence only two years. It

.s formed in 1945 when attendance in the elementa.ry dis-

tricts of Castaic Union, Mint Canyon, Saugus Uni on, and

Sulphur Spring s reached an a verage dai ly a ttendance of

more than fi ve hundred, e.na when the valuation of the dis-

trict reached a value of more than 15,000,000. This met
the requirements of the Education Code of the State of Cal-

ifornia, Section 3661, which required that in order to form

a new high school district there must be at least five

hundred or more units of attendancdein the aggregat e ele-
mentary school districts and an assessed valuation of

?5,000,000 or more.

The increase in valuation of the district was