Show SENATOR CLARKS VIEW Talks Freely of Progress of San Pedro Road COMPLETE IT NEXT YEAR rWi11 Be the Shortest Road and Line of Least Resistance as Compared With Existing Roads Work at Salt Lake End Is to Be Pushed This summerGould Said to Be Back of Haryland Road Short Line Firemen Fire-men Want Increase in Pay Railroad Rail-road Notes The St Louis GlobeDemocrat quotes Senator William A Clark president of the San Pedro aa saying that everything every-thing Is moving with the San Pedro I Ios Angeles 8 Salt Lake line as smoothly as possible and that construction con-struction at the Salt Lake end of the > line will probably begin this summer The main line from Ioa Angeles to I Salt Lake will be nearly 730 miles in length Up to the present time a considerable con-siderable proportion of the < ties and about SOOO tons of rails have been delivered de-livered 1 There are furtljer deliveries of mil almost dally and ties are arriving ar-riving at the rate of one or two shiploads ship-loads a week Twenty carloads of steel bridge material are already on hand The surveys arc nearly completed and mapped and the greater portion of the rightofway has been atcurod Orders Or-ders have been placed for I several hundred j hun-dred box and flat cars and two com I pletii vestlbulcd trains as line as the Pullman shops can turn out Six large passenger engines seventy tons are allo In course of construction It la f proposed to build a roadway similar 1 simi-lar to those of the New York Central and Pennsylvania lines with 18foot crown rockballasted 75pound steel rails 3150 ties to the mile with steel bridges and stono culverts throughout 4ln other words it will be what Is technically tech-nically called permanent construction construc-tion The portion of the Terminal road between 1 be-tween San Pedro and Los Angeles > which will form a part of the trunk line has already been rebuilt in this manner About twentyfive miles of roadbed cast from Los Angeles and ex T ending to Pomona has been graded and on this the work of construction is soon to be pushed Some miles of I roadbed have also been constructed in Nevada The new road will have a considerable advantage over the 1 Southern Pacific and a slight advantage r advan-tage ever the Santa Fo in point of r distance In reaching Missouri river t points Its strong suit however will < be In grades which will be considerably r consider-ably better than those on the two other oth-er lines named The coast range divide di-vide through the San Bernardino mountains at Cajon pass will give E the easiest gradient of any of the great transcontinental highways entering t en-tering California The country through which the new road will pass In southeastern south-eastern California southern Nevada r and southwestern Utah is virgin soil rich In copper coal and the precious metals It Is certain to develop a r large tonnage In profitable freights as soon as railroad facilities are provided C I The work of construction through this territory is to be pushed from both termini and from two or three Intermediate In-termediate points It Is I hoped that tlr I line may be completed and placed In operation by the end of the present year or early In 1903 thus opening up with Its Salt Lake connections another anoth-er transcontinental route |