Show i WORK ON THE SAN PEDRO Officials Tell What Has Been and Will Bo Done In an Interview VicePresident T E Gibbon oC the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake rays I We now have several hundred men at work on the embankments and bribes between Pomona and Riverside River-side All of the dirt work between Los Angeles and Pomona has been completed Ten miles of track have been laid out of Los Angeles and further fur-ther tracklaying Is prevented only by the bridge construction There are several bridges tp be po built between Lorf iVngelcs and Pomona and these 1 will require considerable time to complete com-plete We are putting In nothing but steel and stone bridges There will not be a wooden bridge on the line Two of the bridges in this distance of thirty miles have been completed and others noon will be The largest bridge to be built that over the San Gabriel river consists of three spans two of CO I feet each and one of 100 feet exclusive of the approaches Only the best bridge iron manufactured by the American Bridge company of Pius burg Is being used The steel for these bridges Is In the companys yards at hobart ten miles from Los Angeles We have most of the materials for the construction of the first hundred miles of track where we can lay our hands on It as fast as it can be utilized 1 In another Interview VicePresident JP Ross Clark said that the last great difficulty with the building of the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake < railroad rail-road had been overcome The last piece of rightofway has been obtained ob-tained through the San Gabriel valley This valley in which Los Angeles Is situated is I planted In rich orange groves and olive orchards and the owners have been reluctant to part fl with their holdings The remainder of rightofway is through the mountains moun-tains and the desert and is mainly over Government land Little trouble Is expected In securing titles to the property for the remaining distance |