| Show PLACE3ORlJERFORriES t I f I 1 I r 1 J Eos Angeles Rrfad Gets Enough < i for Seventy Miles j I I I J I C j DELIVERY NEXT FEBRUARY I I I Rails for the SameDistance Having J BeenOrdersd i the Material Will 1 r Soon Be on Hand for Cornple1iig j l the First Extension to San Bernar J 1 j djno for Which Surveys Haye Been i Made and Are to Bo Approved1 Surveyors i r of Short Line t at < Work I 1f TinticBulioad IFotes I Sf 1 Los Angeles Cal Dec 1lJe first order of importance for supplies to be used fn the construction of the new I San Pedro Los Angeles Suit Lake railroad has been given It consists of 220000 ties to be delivered during February Feb-ruary and March of next year at San I Pedro The order was placed on Puget Sound and will be shipped south by a sailing vessel The consignment contracted I con-tracted for will It Is estimated be necessary nec-essary fOl the first 175 miles of the road The total number oC ties necessary neces-sary for completion of the whole line will be about 2000000 The order for ties follows tho order for rails The dispatch says tho amount will be necessary for the first 175 miles but at 3000 per mile It will he a little over seventy miles the same amount of rails having been ordered or enough material to build to San Bernardino Ber-nardino The cost of the 220000 is about 5110000 East Tintic Extensions TRIBUNE SPECIAL Mammoth Utah Dec 21 Surveyors came out yesterday from Salt Lake to make a survey of the new East Tlntlo railroad which was purchased recently recent-ly by the Oregon Short Line A switch Is to be put in to the Lower Mammoth and surveys will also be made for an extension of the road west from the north terminus at the Mammoth mine to the Grand Central mine and south to the Star Consolidated and Dragon Iron mines All of these mines can be reached on an easy grade and comparatively com-paratively slight cost and the tonnage would add handsomely to the revenues reve-nues The management will be entirely en-tirely I separate from the parent road I and it Is not thought that the change of ownership will affect the pool that 1 exists between the Short Line and Rio Grande railways and which Is renewed from year to year Railroad Notes The round trip colonist rates are lobe lo-be abolished Several branch roads are contem I 1 plated in Manitoba Thomas Kearns of the Los Angeles 1 road will be home tomorrow William Penn Anderson of the Santa Fe 6nectcd here in a few days Christmas travel on both roads started start-ed yesterday with big crowds leaving the city mostly students Tram Manager Babcock and General Passenger Agent Helntx of the Rio Grande Western are expected home today to-day dayThe Santa Fe Albuquerque Pacific has elected officers and It Is announced that the road will be rapidly pushed to completion Last year the gross earnings of United States railroads were 511SOVC73 051 or 7776 per mile a slight Increase The net earnings were 5523SS912 A company of soldiers from Columbus Colum-bus barracks 0 1S5 men and three officers will pass through here Monday on the Rio Grande Western en route to San Francisco Some months ago armed guards were placed upon all Union Pacific passenger passen-ger trains to be ready for holdups For the last few days the utmost vigilance vigi-lance has been exercised by the guards and it is thought in Cheyenne that the railroad people had information of an intended attempt to hold up a train |
