OCR Text |
Show UTAH & PACIFIC. WJLL BUILD TO THE COAST--PRESIDENT M'C'l'XE STATES THAT THE r.OAD WILL NOT BE STOPPED AT ST.VTELIXE. Salt Lake Tribune. A a meeting of the board of directors of the. Utah & Pacific was held in President McCune's office yesterday afternoon. Those who were there in additif n to President McCune were Vice-President David Eccles, Treasurer Treas-urer C. W. Nibley, Joseph F. Smith, Richard Mackintosh and Thomas D. Dee. Director R. C. Lund is in St. George and Secretary W. L. Hoge was unable to be preheat on account of business that detained him in Anaconda. Ana-conda. General details connected with the construction of the road were discussed at yesterday's meeting. The surveys and maps were given an overhauling and revision. They will be forwarded without delay to the General Land office at Washington. The maps were filed once before, when the old grade was new. With the change of ownership, owner-ship, however, the law requires a new filing. President McCune, when seeil after the conclusion of the session, was jubilant jubi-lant over the prospects of his. company. "It in a dead sure proposition," hs said "that the road will, not be stopped at the State line. It will be pushed, by its present owners probably, and if not by them, by somebody else, to a connection con-nection with the California Eastern. "This is a thirty-mile road that connects con-nects at Blake, Cal., With the Santa Fe. From there other connections will be established through to the coast. The first work of construction will be begun ivithin a few days." A big consignment of ties is on the way from Baker City, Or., and the country adjoining. The ties will be taken to Milford and there stacked up to wait the occasion for their use. Hendricks & Son of Richmond, who uavi- i-en awarded the track laying and construction contracts, are a't home preparing their outfit. This firm has done considerable work of the character now in hand, and is well equipped for the undertaking. Tire old road-bed is practically ready for the rails, except at a few points where the embankment has washed some. The filling will require about 17.000 yards of dirt, and the old bed may . need straightening and leveling up'. The following from the Railway Age, has some bearing on the subject of a Utah & Pacific extension, indicating as it does, poisible cannections for the new road. "A sudden demand for the stock of the San Francisco & Sail Joaquin Valley Val-ley road at San Francisco, and an ad-v.riiicc. ad-v.riiicc. in price from $35 to $35 per share, arc said to be due to a combination effected with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe for the construction of a line from Bakerslield, Cal., southeast to ?.Iojave, to connect the two systems. While u-h officials of the latter road assure us that they have no knowledge of such a combination, it is doubtless true that a movement is on foot to build the !ii".e deferred to, and it seems likely that, after its comple'ion, the Santa Fe will at least have friendly relations with the Valley road for its San Francis;-o bv.ciness. . ''The latter now extends from Stockton Stock-ton south frv Bakersfk'ld, Cal.. 235 mile;, and is building from Sto.-kton west to Point Richmond, on the bay opposite San Francisco, a distance of seventy-eight miles. As the road was projected with the idea of giving San Francisco a line independent of the Southern Pacific, its object will not be accomplished until a connection is formed on the south with some trans-ccntineutal trans-ccntineutal line other th;'.n the Souther:. South-er:. Pacific, which road, it would ap-jvjar, ap-jvjar, must bo the At.-.hisoc, Topeka & Sant.; F- The la tier's line to S.'-.". Francisco how terminates "lt Mojave. and from that po'nt to the Golden Ga.e City its business is h;tV?!cd by the Soulh'.:rr. Pieific through a traffic arrancncr.'. " . m - |