Show THAT TIT LATEST CUTOFF F I Uvada and Chloride Bridge At Attracts Attracts Attracts tracts Attention n WORRY I TO BE Dominance Domi ce of CI Southern SOll ern Pacific lc and Santa Sant Fe In Regard to Los Ange Auge Angeles uge les Seriously Threatened Threaten By the Proposed Short Cut Annual M t ting tingo ing ingo of the Southern I FrOm present the next thirteen or fifteen ei months south southern ern Em em California will be the tae scene of new ne and Important railway developments which will pile pUe up lots of work for H nt and nd place tHac lila his present nt two tw routes to the th east at a great disadvantage tage vMs This little cloud upon the ho zon which at the present prent thiC does doea no not look loik much bigger than a mans band hand 1 s 5 the proposed bridge gt between bt tween Uvada UV lla and Chloride mentioned in n a brief dispatch three days ago which if It accomplished will bring Los Angeles within twenty hours bours of ot o Salt gaIt Lake An effort Is on foot which will be sprung at the Los Angeles conference of or interested railroad men to have the recently organized Utah Nevada California company make an nn extension from the Utah Pacific terminus at Uvada and bridge over the gap between that point and Chloride on the Arizona Utah line If this is accomplished pUshed the new cutoff between Los Angeles and Salt Lake will utilize the Santa Fe tracks from Kingman Ariz to Los Angeles via Barstow In reviewing the situation the San Francisco Examiner says The Santa Fe has the advantage of ofa ofa ofa a hort line to the east It owns a road 4 all the way from front Los Angeles to Chi Chicago cago tago It is so gO o tied up in lii traffic com corn combines combines 1 bines with Huntington however that it is not using its shorter route to t the east to fight the Southern Pacific for tor its own wn good and that of f the people of the south The Southern Pacific has one roundabout line to the th east by the way of ot El Paso Its other ather circuitous line runs north to Mojave and anI thence by tie I he way of Lathrop Sacramento Reno fleno and Ogden A new ne line such as the route by the way of ol Kingman and would be a strong competitor of the Santa Fe and make the Southern Pacific PaCifica a very weak line for Or overland I business Into and out of o southern Call Cali California fornia I Realizing that there will before long be a road in operation into the south by the way of Uvada U da the Southern Pacific week before la I last t bought the Carson Colorado line lino of D 0 O Mills so as to make it a cutoff between Los Angeles and the east via Ogden By building from Mojave north to tc Keeler the southern terminus of the Carson Colorado and from Mound House the northern terminal north northeast northeast east t to Wadsworth on om the Central Pa Pacific Pacific new line into the J south will be b completed d By B Its use he will wm avoid avold the Sierra SI Nevada moun mountains Huntington would not resort to all nil this expense did he not know w that at least one more morp new n w line a seek its share of o the rich traffic of o Angeles and its tributary country |