Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-05-20 | Page 2 | Leighton Don't Believe It

Leighton Dont Believe It Los Angeles Cal May 19President fieorge B Leighton of the Terminal Railroad company who left for the East today said In an interview Just before his departure that the story I credited to C P lluntinglon that the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe roads i would jointly build a road between SIt Lake and Los Angeles is stuff and I nonsense Mr LeIghton said The Salt Lake road Is i to bo built of that thare is no doubt but neither the Southern Pac fic nor the Santa Fe will have anything to do with Its construction Of that i am absolutely certain I could convince con-vince you in n moment of what 1 am sayinG but I am under oath almost i not to divulge what T know Whoever does construct the new line will build it into Barstow and that Is also a certainly Of course Mr Hunt ingltn has had surveyors Sn Ihe field looking over the territory along the proposed now road and so have also several others The story of a combination combina-tion road between Los Angeles and Salt Lake lo bo built by the Southern Pacific Pa-cific and tho Santa Fe la puie fiction and nothing ilso At Santa Fe headquarters nothing confirmatory of the Sin Francisco dispatch dis-patch could be learned today