 Among the organizers were Frank Kimball, a prominent landowner and rancher from San Diego who also represented the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of City Trustees of San Diego, Kidder, Peabody & Co., one of the main financial investment companies involved in the Santa Fe, B.P.Cheney, L.G.Pratt, George B. Wilbur and Thomas Nickerson who was president of the Santa Fe.