Show SALT LAKE LOS ANGELES A Frank Statement by the Chief Engineer To the Editor of THB HERALD What has become of the Salt Lake Los Angeles Railroad I This question is frequently asked by persons more or less interested in the luccess of the propoed enterprise both in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles and it is perhaps due to thepublic that the question should receive respectful attention at-tention and ba promptly answered Ever since the date when the gentlemen gentle-men who undertook to organize and construct this railroad filed their incorporation incor-poration papers the utmost diligence and energy have been employed to push it forward to success They have nteu met by many obstacles which have been purposely placed in the way to prevent the completion comple-tion of this competing overland route Capitalists who had verbally guaranteed the required means to finish the work were induced to offer various pretexts for not doing so Others had neon sought out by tns energy of the gentlemen managing the affairs have also been induced to break their promises prom-ises until despairing of placing the loan in thu United States the syndicate nave decided upon the solicitation of foreign capital for the enterprise To that end maps profiles anti estimates are now being made in a manner to conform to tho European idea of railroad rail-road construction which will shortly be forwarded for inspection Responsible Respon-sible and influential parties in New York City have the matter in hand who have had groat experience in placing plac-ing loans of this character and from whom good results may be reasonably expected Twenty millions of dollars cannot ba procured with the ease that many persons per-sons imagine especially in days of such great financial uncertainty as now exist with the great railroad funding propositions and vexed tariff question before Congress and with tue still greater uncertainty always attending the fear or a change of the financial policy cf the government which interferes terferes as tie Ides of November approach ap-proach Those int rested in the outcome of this enterprise can obtain full information infor-mation from the parlies who are giving their time and money to this great public work how matters progress and at what stage the affairs at the present time now sand by addressing H It Houghton the treasurer No 145 Broadway New York City If till more public spirited persons desire to become interested with the gentlemen before mentioned we are Informed In-formed by them that they will cheerfully cheer-fully associate themselves with as many as desire to put their time and money into the effort to build a road which will be of such incalculable benefit to the residents of Salt Lake City and vicinity upon the payment of their proportion of the expenses which will place them on an equal footing with the present syndicate If another class of parsons who consider con-sider the action of these gentlemen too slow or dilatory desire to do so they are certainly at liberty to oganze another an-other corporation and construct the road in their own behalf and by their own effort If the croakers who deem the action of the geatlojren too slow or dilatory to suit their ideas of modern railroad construction con-struction feel dissatisfied they will pardon par-don me for suggesting that the route is I open to the public and as free as the air they breathe and they can go ahead and construct just as many miles of said road as their energy and means at command will justify and they will become public benefactors to all whoso who-so much need a short routs to the Pacific I Ooast There are so many obstacles in the way of a speedy procurement of the needed funds that the assistance of more than one syndicate of active workers may be needed to make a success suc-cess of the enterprise The promises of the Union Pacific Railroad Company to complete the connection of the Utah Central with that of the Atlantic Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads at or near Mojave have been factors to some extent in the enforced delay in locating the western terminus I to the end that the lines might not be competing It is to be hoped but is not generally believed that the Union Pacific Pa-cific Railroad Company will construct the connection above mentioned but I should such an event occur in the future fu-ture it would be far better for both the Salt Lake Lo Angeles Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad that they should be located as far apart us is I practicable The great wealth in mining lands and the unsurpassed agricultural lands all lie on the northerly route while branch railroads will be necessary in both cases to tap the rich and extensive exten-sive coal fields of soutnern Utah We assure the public that no unnecessary unneces-sary delay is being made and that as soon as the fruits of the present labor are made manifest the public will be fully advised through the medium of the press 0 H RosEn Chief Engineer I |