Show EXTENSION Of RAILROADS Opening of Era of f Construction That Will Help Salt Lake and Utah Forward New Lines Projected and Some Som Already Being Built TAH DURING the year Just UTAH U j past has become the th center of railroad development In the west vrest From Fro all sides aides railroads are being planned with Salt Lake as a common point while within Utah several ex extensions extensions tensions are being projected The greatest single piece of railroad construction is the San Pedro Los An Angeles Angeles Angeles geles Salt Lake road of which Sen Senator Senator Senator ator W A Clark of Montana is the principal backer The articles of in of this road were ere filed tiled in March 1901 and activity ht fa the way of construction followed immediately The project Involves the building f a road from the harbor of San Pedro through Los Angeles and the richest fruit country of southern California traversing the rich mineral districts of southern Nevada and Utah and up to Salt Lake and making the shortest route between the metropolis of the Intermountain region and the metropolis lis Us of southern California The announcement that this road would be built spurred the Oregon Short Line to action and the result was Intense rivalry between the two taro roads resulting in actual physical ph ical con conflict conflict SUet The competition has passed p the stage stace of physical warfare however and no now both roads are engaged n aged In a R joint survey down the Meadow valley wash in Nevada the principal disputed ground with a view to location of ot par parallel parallel lines Jines for the two roads By the latter Jati r part of January it Is expected that this survey will vill be completed com plated and that an amicable agreement will be reached by which both roads will be befree befree free Cree to build between Salt Lake and Los Loa Angeles Work in California Owing to the greater facilities for forS S 7 ImI tiny J 9 material mn t al at the western end vf W p construction th hll of the San Ban P dIO road so far been in Califor California nIL nia The Los Angeles Terminal road w was absorbed by hy the San Pedro has hits been rebuilt rails raUs being laid and the best equip equipment equipment ment m obtainable being bought for the new transcontinental link The route surveyed goes through some of the richest t orange e groves In the state and consequently the securing of ot the right of way has bas been heen difficult and slow De Despite Despite Despite spite obstacles the right of ot way war haa has beer been secured completely completE Jy as far tar as Po Pomona Pomona Pomona mona and partially for far some soma distance beyond that city It is expected that trains trans will be running as far aa as Po Pomona Pomona Pomona mona by the end of January In Nevada grading has been cpm con plated for lor gome distance ip 10 i the tear Mea lea flow dow valley wash As soon as the joint survey is fe finished and an aD agreement a is reached as to route work will be started in several veral different places aloag the line JIBe The TIM work eastward in Call forna form will be pushed The TIM California Eastern running from fr om Blake to Man Haa Movel Manvel vel Cal Cat forming a feeder to the Santa Fe Is Js being extended into Ne Nevada Nevada Nevada vada to an intersection with the sur ser surveys surveys veys of or the fhe San Pedro and the Oregon Short Line and this road will be util utilized Iced as a mode for tor furnishing supplies Construction will be started both ways from the intersection of the California Eastern with the San Pedro survey The work in the Meadow valley wash will be prosecuted pro and a will willbe willbe be let Jet for construction out of Salt Lake LakeIt It is ia expected that by Jan 1 1904 1941 l f if not considerably sooner the road will be completed and In Ill operation J I throughout its entire length Branches in Contemplation Branches are contemplated to ta Qu coal fields field of southwestern Utah to te the neighboring iron fields field and ad to the vast Deep Creek mineral region in tile the western west western ern part of Utah and aDd eastern Nevada Numerous other feeders will undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly edly be built developing the country within a radius of many muy miles of the main line One branch Is 18 contemplated I to Tonopah Nev the great reat n new w gold lold goldcamp goldcamp camp of that state The Oregon Short Line has hu not been Idle during all aU this time Following the announcement that Senator Clark and his hili associates proposed pro to connect Salt Lake and Los Loll Angeles by a 8 direct rail line the Oregon Short Line exer exercised cl ed its option and purchased from fromA A W V McCune and others other the Utah Pacific road running from Milford the former terminus of ot the Short Line ine miles to UVada The price paid was vea ve en at It was then announced that the Sl or t Line also aJao intended to build to L Lou An Angeles geles Construction was wag ae begun anil I then followed the bitter warfare wart e over the Nevada grade which resulted d in actual collision coUlston between bet the rival forces coming near resulting in fa actual lose 1088 of ot life lite Both roads worked forces forcer of graders along the proposed pro right of or way and aDd a bitter legal followed the physical combat Th The Short Line won the grade as far as Clover Valley Junction which is 18 now DW called A r raDd and aDd the rest of the s still It t unsettled i T sal ial c COD sou ar was f arranged w h b it is I fX ear r HI Ul be t fF completed ft fter r t the ie iD It Ti e ey y is finished p pea ne r t th h ass nes S O t i run 7 t l Continued on j re f e 28 f fl k l EXTENSION OF RAILROADS Continued from page 17 along al g the fhe Meadow valley wash without I conflict The Oregon Short Line has surveyed I a route as far tar as a connection with the California C Eastern and by that road with the Santa Fe Pe Construction has been authorized this far and the road It is 18 given out will w l be pushed beyond this point to Palm Springs Gal Cal when connection will be made with the Southern Pacific This would give Salt Lake two direct routes to the southern California coast The distance dl tance from Salt Sait Lake to Cal lentes by the Oregon Oreon Short Line is 36 miles mites The distance from Calientes to Los Loa Angeles according a to the old sur nor survey survey norvey vey is miles m a total of ot miles mile As Al a part of the Oregon Short Lines plan for the California extension it is proposed to the old ld line from Salt Lake to Tooele and Ter Tee Terminus Terminus minus and an to t extend it beyond Leam ington hill bill effecting a great saving in distance and in n necessary gradients The survey on this has baa been completed and aDd construction work will NUl probably begin during the coming year Roads Beads Coming Here Next in importance to the building of ofa ofa ofa a new direct rail connection between Salt Lake and Los Angeles is the de determination determination termination of the Southern Pacific and anI Union Pacific to reach Salt Lake with their o t rails raUs The acquirement of the southern Pacific by E B H Har Harriman Harriman riman and the interests ts which are backing him in his railroad enterprises es has halll resulted in a radical change of ot policy The sum of has been set Bet apart for Improvements such as ail the construction of or new roadbed the there reduction re of ot grades and curves and the purchase of new equipment e Of this thi amount a large proportion is to be spent on the Central Pacific portion of tho th and the scheme of ot im ImI I |