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Show I LAST RAIL LAID ife SAW PEDRO mi II Cap Closed Yesterday It Afternoon ifj iBB f'na' sP'e s DrJven Amic III Cheers of the Work-Up Work-Up men S S gait Lake City Now Connected by Direct Lino Witli Los Angeles $A ) and San Pedro Harbor. m , sis? P tuf5 5 , I Just as tho sun was sinking behind tho I mountains skirting Death Valley Uio last -jjgj J mil of tho San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt B ?f , Lake railroad was laid yesterday af- 2 lernoon. It was -1:35 p. m., and both w.i yl Vjangs were working like beavers to beat ftfjl- ho record, while tho foremen and inu' engineers looked on and aided tho men b; If lnclr enthusiastic encouragement "When HI if the last rail was In place and tho final jjjlT splko driven a cheer went up from those T Jtan(1'ne around, even the foreigners joln- 'tigj j ing In the enthusiasm. jSj Salt Lako la now connected by rail jjffl i with Los Angeles and San Pedro harbor. Chief Engineer E. G. Tllton was on tho fcf a ground; ao wero Division Engineers Hocy W ijt and Jones, Track Foreman Conway and nil the other men who have been notable !fa fi figures in the construction. As soon as U the rail was laid an engine passed over iM 11 the llne. and tno roatl vas- thereby opened for through eervlco, tho officials presont "ijjYfl being on the first engine to cross the gap. MB Great Thing for Two Cities. jJl!8 Tt Is a groat thing for both cities. Salt iklfx Lake Is now only 77S miles form Los S J Angeles, and all tho settlements south of ft' 1 this city are that much nearer to the 3 coast. In time the road will be opened pti 3 for through freight and passenger trains, I and In twenty-four hours the fast trains kr 1 can eventually cover the distance belli? be-lli? f twren iho two places, while the road will i'il become the natural highway for southern f t -California freights. Oriental shipments .' la San Pedro, and much of the trans- im continental traffic. It will stimulate travel wt !' , Ir twee n the" two cities, as the short ffK ! dlrtanco, lower rates of fare and other S advantages will make It possible for Salt f Lakers to run down to that favored sects; sec-ts; t tion during the local cold weather and 6fi '. ' allow the Los Angeles people a chanco ' to escape the heat and come up to Salt jsp, j,: Lake lor skating, sleighing and other Mi j winter sports. Owing to the fame of the Si i i cities it will bo I he popular tourist route -,1a from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and with fea ' other roads coming to Salt Lako will .jm j take Its place as one of the chief links s? . In tho transcontinental line. ; i Senator Clark's Iden. its. I witi By its completion Senator William A. Clark of Montana fulfills all of his f; , promises made At the Commercial club banquet he said the last rail would be ; ' laid on February 1, 1D05, and It was laid - forty-eight hours ahead of that date, lie -"t3 Is the ono who took up tho Idea when It had been dropped by others. He la the .-jjjj i , man who put his money Into the little Los i-V ) ', Angeles terminal, and, with all the rail- jjS IT road magnates fighting him, ho stayed iw w,tn 11 until he had accomplished what Ml1 w c set out t0 Perform. Allied with hi in rtJK"' T'cre tho owners of the former nVhfEB Terminal company. Then T. E Gibbon tiwKl ani3 J Posi Clark took up the work and Vjftr nidfd him In many ways. In Iho lncorpo- Si ration was Included with these gentlemen JSrao of 1,10 leading men of Salt Lake i-x'ity, and to one and all Is duo a share of SJl credit for pushing tho road through. "3 loiter on Senator Clark bought out tho hj 5 Oregon Short Line tracks south and west rr f this city, paying therefor in securities Mil f- ot tne new' lme uuL tnoac securities do Bai net pass tho control. The great Overland jf1 Is Interested to one-half Today Senator Clark Is tho president and will remain so itW a 7ne ron(1 wl" 00 operated by a company iTartl , 'tse' and officered by men who have iggivl already made good In tho railroad world. S 1 Capable Corps of Ofiicials. SI t And the ofOclals, tho army of assistants RS: 'I n)& tno nicn behind the transits, one and IjSj (f all, dcBorve credit for their share of TOJ n th-j work. In passing It may be ap- JJ pronrlato to add that much of tho it eriplnecrlrig was dono under the super- i Jlslon of Henry nawgood and "our own" mil & McCartney. In fact tho latter Bur- Hl1 veyed tho lino and had most to do with vftfl T ,5 carly construction. Theso two have Mil f i.Ptt tho road. but their work is romcm- J?M General Manager R E. "Wells Is a rall- g In man wno "as ably handled the dc- k t- f under muny unfaorablo condltions. tndcr his direction were ouch men as JSiiTi i ""Perintendcnts Henderson. Cullcn and t n HoU8en. Engineers of Maintenance "J35i Jetsup and R. IC Brown, and under theso Uwil v B arf of clever and gonial men who Hf? Y0 worked harmonlouslv and woll. JPSnlft tinder Chief Englncor Tllton wero two tMlV ?i,ch dlvl8'on engineers as A. L. Jones and iBmi- Hcy. and they, too. have capably worked RISTllli' 01iL tncIr ParL of tnc programme. Z4U tu3 ?aJt Lake Route is now through. ZfM Ulan Nevada and southern California aro Uaft connected by a Phort lino, and all R5k' ytns 1,10 routo cities aro" springing Into 5I DclnG'1 new mining camps are being 2mJe? e'Sanlzed, and a country known as a fff "eEert luas become fruitful; one county, u5t K mcoln, with u llttlo over 3000 people llvo Sin earH aeo now nax aim03t that number sSM& ln Kwo new railroad towns formerly not 25 K.' Vne ma"' and so It goes. lSSr1v v,Xs.ovC vI11 the festive traffic men get ln Jffi K ;ncr hard work, and, while the construc- lidw- .1 Kangs are surfacing and ballasting tfffl fi P'e rces under Mr. Glllctt will be mak- B h lne. ready for putting on tho Salt t: . i;c?e & Los Angeles Limited, the San arS f i aro Fver or tho Orango Grovo Special, 7S l ?ni 0ne of hlch the future traveler may R Vr 0 an easy and pleasant rldo to thciland y K. ot : FunHhlne and flowern. ii' Tvii:8,?. Srcat day for Utah, and her pco- t t: We ' w I no doubt rejoice nJ V1,n 8lxl' lays nU wl" 00 In rcadl- Sfl ; 5 i . or lno opening, and even before then HH ' 7,!rtt0 will bu set for tho ceremonies nt- ' ?.rlnf:, tno driving of tho last spike fUtSii S t. L03 Angeles road Is through. It 'Xai ? Xiws Mla''tcd some thirty years ago by " " ere nt people and taken up by others Hli t.,Uos1, everv year since then, but It re-J9?.E- 'r1iCl1. t0 Senator Tlark of Montana to nft&jr "tarted uud then to push t through. |