Show REPRESENTATIVES OF UTAHS RAILROAD I INTERESTS = RAILROAD RECORD r While the actual mileage of Utah railroads rail-roads was Increased last year by but four and a half miles yet the twelvemonths twelve-months ending yesterday can bo referred re-ferred to as the most important period In Utah railroad history And what Is true of Utah Is true also of Idaho Nevada Wyoming and other States > of the Intermountain country of which Salt Lake Is the center Last New Years announcement was made of the organization of the San Pedro Los Angeles An-geles Salt Lake This year can bi noted great progress In that road with the further statement that the Oregon Short Line is likewise building flout to Los Angeles I In Denver the cry Is on to Salt Lake and in San Francisco and Los Angeles there Is continued talk of a Utah line while CMontann and the north Is eagerly awaiting the completion of the road through this State which will place Die famous camps of that bonanza Slat t In touch with the sunny skies 01 souibein California To existing roads the year was productive pro-ductive oC great development The Union Pacific secured control of the Southern Pacific and tho Gould Inter tjsts secured the Colorado Midland IDnver Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western events which attracted the attention of the financial world The old lines were Improved cutofis and JIne changes made and new equipment ordered Mao jrross earnings the showing forth for-th Oregon Short Line and Rio Grande Westnrn for r the last fiscal rycar were the greatest In their history Last New Years the same statement was madehut the banner year of 1900 was eclipsed by l IftOl < and now the Increases shown indicate that 1002 will again break the record The earnings state jnent are made for fiscal years from July 1st of one year to June 30th of the jioxlWhile While little truck was laid in Utah yeT the local roads performed a large amount of work The Oregan Short Line built fort one miles below Uvada on the way to Los Angeles The San Pedro started work onUs line at Los Angeles coming northeast and I graded in Nevada Both companion I surveyed their lines In Idaho the Short Line built a fine eightysix miles I branch from Blackfoot TO Mackay which can he extended to Thunder Mountain Salmon Glbbonsville and other mining rpglons < < and the line will be extended certainly to Challls this year I This season promises great development I develop-ment in the railroad situation and the future at the opening of a new year I for rallwork In this favored region was to say the least never brighter I i 1 THE 1902 MAPS Salt Lake the Center of Vast and t I Wealthy Are The map herewith Is designed to pre Bent the situation before the public in black and white It will be seen at a glance that Salt Lake is in the center cen-ter of a vast and wealthy area including includ-ing Idaho Wyoming Colorado Arl cona and Nevada The map could be extended north as far as Alberta Canada and the extent of Salt Lakes trade Influence would not be overestimated overesti-mated It will be seen that at Salt Lake and Ogden roads running east and west Intersected by north and south lines that this State has lines to San Francisco to Portland to Butte to Omaha to Denver to Cheyenne and now building to Los Angeles Products of agriculture of mines of animals of forests of manufacture are dotted here and there and local branches are quickly reaching out to develop them And it can be explained that the railroad rail-road enjoy a steady back and forth traffic which can be duplicated by few eectlons for the Intermountain region Js so productive that the farmer and the livestock grower horticulturist the dairyman all find an ample market mar-ket for their products at home The railroads therefore are kept busy hauling ores and coal one way and household supplies and produce the other way Even the elegant dining cars are stocked with Utah produce each trip and the statistics of the railroads rail-roads show a wonderful increase In tonnage of the seemingly Insignificant strawberry as great proportionately as In C9al i And the development Is Just beginning begin-ning The railroads are aiding the farmer the miner the manpfacturer and the stockgrower The passenger departments are working to bring In prospectors homcseekcrs and farmers are giving publication to desert lands that can be watered of mining regions re-gions hitherto undeveloped The traffic traf-fic officials are urging upon the general managers the general managers upon the chairmen the chairmen upon the directors and the directors upon the stockholders the necessity building local l branches Let the main line care for itself Give us more local branches is the cry of the traffic official and that is the sensible policy can be proved by the map for the local branches are the ones which arc paying to a large extent ex-tent for the plush In the main line tral ns The dotted lines show the two pro jected roads to Los Angeles the Oregon Ore-gon Short Lines extension from Ca Ientes and the San Pedro LoS Angeles Salt Lakes road from Salt Lake It must not be understood that the San Pedros line is in any way official for Its surveys have not been accepted hut the aim has been to give the pub Jlc an idea of the line from Salt Lake due southwest with the line via Deop Creek and the branch to Cedar City Boll lines come nearly together In Lincoln county below Ploche Up In Idaho the Salmon River railroad rail-road l brunch of the Oregon Short Line is I in operation eightysix miles above Blackfoot and this year will ha extended boyond Mnckay The new mining region Thunder Mountain Is northwest of Mackay and can be I reached by an extension of this line From Idaho Falls the St Anthony brunch is built to St Anthony nnd pointing to t the Yellowstone National park Both of these branches will opeaup rich agricultural mineral and livestock regions The map however speaks for Itself and by studying a fair idea can be Brined of the local railroad situation I SAN PEDRO BO AD Great Progress Made iu Getting the p Lino Started The San Pedro Los Angeles < Sal Lake was organized In this city In No vembor 1SOD and tl same lime were formed the Empire Construction company com-pany and the California < Sc Utah Exploration Ex-ploration and Development company The details oC early organization in cidents find he alms of the companies rwero given Jn the review last New lYears Senator W A Clark of Mon tana Is president the railroad and others who signed the original articles of incorporation arc IL C Kerens oC St Lous first vicepresident J Ross Clark second vicfiprosident T F Gibben third vicepresident T F Mii Jer secretary nil of Los Angeles Jhomas Koarns W S McCornick E W Clark Re l Smoot David j llIC O VhltLem re Ferxy S Heath oG L Utah George B Loighton S A Bemirf and R C Kerens Jr of Sl Loul Charles W Clark of Butte Chartcs Clark of Central Township MOi Wil t U r 0 O ° 0 ° c cc O c 0 t c 0 0 o o08 oooo uA 11 L i i k i t1k 1 H O JJV6I 1 jpx ft IKL th ± ThriC 4 I THO4 o L < IlcJ I 1IGth a 1 1 d i i I i 1A 4nrr Ib Al iir T cI I d t > doT GEN2Jup7 5T8 a ° J 0 > I t i c a J Ham h B Clark of Kansas City and A H Handlan of St Louis The purpose of the company is to build a standard gauge llnof railroad from Salt Lake i Utah to San Pedro harbor California via Los Angeles with branches as may bo deemed necessary neces-sary How the company acquired the Los Angeles Terminal railroad the harbor har-bor rights and franchises at San Pedro and the city franchises In Los Angeles have already been told All this had been accomplished before last spring Then the company began to act and in a thrice its competitors realized what might happen The San Pedro road was surveying over the line of grade built by the Union Pacific In 1SS9 from Uvadn to Callenlcs as this pass over the rim of Salt Lake basin Is the strategic point In the situation In April the Oregon Short Line bought the Utah Pacific which extended from Milford to Uva da and a few days later VicePresident Bancroft announced that the line would be extended to Los Angeles Work had been commenced and when the Short Line forces got to the State line the San Pedro forces held > the grade The alter was forcibly removed nnd the track laid In Nevada Then came the war for supremacy on the grade and the dally story of tunnel No 1 the Meadow Valley wash and every move of the rival companies was read by he people of the United States InJunctions In-junctions and counter injunctions took tile matter into the courts Later an agreement was reached to delay the trials pending a survey to see If two lines can be constructed through the narrow defile There tho matter rests The surveys are now wider way andthe suits will shortly be heard In cotirt Both companies arc firm 1111 i their de termination tf build but the legal obstacles ob-stacles have greatly delayed matters The San Pedro road however has run surveys fiom Salt Lake and dur Ing the year has collected ldftl of inestimable in-estimable value to Its engineers At the Los Angeles end the Terminal has been practically rebuilt laid with seventypound steel l and ballasted The company has ordered twelve new engines en-gines fifteenpassenger and 400 freight cars one steam shovel and onc ballast spreader so it will bo seen that the company will be well equipped push construction work this year A contract was let for grading the first thirty miles toward Salt Lake or from Los Angeles to Pomona This will be In operation early this year and then will be pushed on to Red lands Arrangements now being made for tics and rails for the entire line J A contract was also let for a shop plant in Los Angeles OREGON SHOBT IINE Bought Roads and Extended ItSLIne Over Two Hundred Miles The Oregon Short Line holds a position posi-tion unequaled in the West I t Is the only line of the greater part 6f its territory ter-ritory It has an east nnd west line and a north and south line so It par ticipates In all travel Its gross earn Ing last year or rather for i the fiscal year ending < < June 30Lh were very nearly 5IO000000 the arsest amount in tho history of the road and increases have been shown every monthsnee the close of the fiscal year Duringthe year JustcJoscd the Ore gon Short Line Added 127 miles to its system by construction and sevcntvsix miles by purchase Early In May It i absorbed the Utah Pidlfic which had been built In Its interests by other parties and extended it fortyone onemlies southweit to Callcntesou lhc route to < I u Los Angeles The company intends to extend below Callentes this year in fact Jt has been announced that Short Line trains will be running into Los Angeles In two years In Idaho the Salmon River railroad was built from Blackfoot to Mackay eightysix miles This line reaches the property the White Knob Copper company and is pointing to Thunder mountain This year It vlll be extended extend-ed to Challls A spur of one mile was added to the Garfield branch at Lako Point With all Its construction work the engineering en-gineering department performed a vast imount of work in widening banks jallastlng laying new rails building jrldges making cutoffs and otherwise Improving the line I Cutoffs at Melrose Hawgood Wcs ton and Bear river siding greatly improved im-proved the line The whole of the Idaho division was practically completed com-pleted The Beavor canyon was laid with eightypound rails and two very fine steel bridges were built in Bear River canyon The force was the largest of any engineering department of a railroad in the West At one time there were nearly two dozen engineering engineer-ing parties and outfits in the field The work included surveys all the way to California The quick and substantial work on the Salmon River road is a credit to the department and tho same is true of the work below Uvada It was the first year of operation of Wyoming Western the branch built to the coal mnics below Kemmerer The coal tonnage now represents CO percent per-cent of the Short Lines gross tonnage 01 wonderful Increase Coal Is steadily becoming the great factor In Western railroads and not only Is the tonnage large but the freight department derives de-rives from lhe haul a good revenue This year the coal branches will be further extended nnd the industry further fur-ther developed The Oregon Short Line hopes to reach 10500000 gross in I 1902 and there Is no reason why it should notTho Tho road received during the year fortyfive engines and 321 cars making a total of > i2t > cars and 216 engines as against 472C cars and 111 locomotives March 1G 1S07 when the segregation took place quite an Increase BIO GRANDE WESTERN Absorbed by Gould Syndicate but Is Still Operated Separately Tho most important feature of the year to the Rio Grande Western was the purchase of a majority of Its stock by the Denver Rio Grande or Gould syndicate and the election of a Gould board of which George J Gould is chairman E T Jeffery president and Russell Harding vicepresident and geiuiral manager The road however will be maintained ns a Utah system and will work for the upbuilding of this State The general olllces remain In Salt Lake and here remain General Superintendent Su-perintendent A E Welby Assistant General Traffic Manager S H Babcock and their staffs upon whom devolve the greater part of the roads operations I opera-tions The equipment was Increased during the year by twenty locomotives GOt L freight cars one diner two baggage cars The equipment now consists of HG engines eighty two passengers cars 2050 freight and miscellaneous cars The gross earnings for the last fiscal I year amounted to 5100720608 the I largest in the roads history Most of the Improvement work In line I changes was made tho preceding year but the general policy of betterment I was carried out I and the total expended for betterments and shew equipment was n90923i67 pSxtensions were built but a threeniUe spur was added by the Blngham Consolidated to reach Its tunnel from Westerns Bingham branch A costly shop plan ti being planned by tho company tp be erected at Salt Lake It Avlll > be run by electricity entirely en-tirely and will be built this year at a cost of probably 500000 Chairman Gould personally went over the road last fall and expressed himself as being delighted with its condition He is deeply Interested In Utah and the Western West-ern and made the announcement that the Utah road would be improved in ever way possible to make it second to none in the West and the year 1002 therefore will undoubtedly witness the greatest era of betterments tho road has ever known This will Include the reduction grades nnd curvature the laying of new steel ballasting and general gen-eral physical Improvement That It wIll be extended also during the year there Is no doubt Already projected are the branches to the La Sal country thcUintah and Uncom pahgre reservations the Castle Valley Cedar City and other regions Surveyors Survey-ors are at work on the line for the Salina Sa-lina canyon cutoft from Jhe main line near Green river over the hills to Snllna on the route surveyed In 1SS1 for the original California extension This would give the road a short line from Denver to the Sanpete and Sevler branch and by extending that branch to join the San Pedro road a short line from Denver to Los Angeles as well as from Salt Lake to Los Angeles would result RUMORS OF THE YEAR Crop Was Unusually Large and 1 I Highly Interesting The whole year was filled with railroad rail-road rumors of decided Interest to Salt Lakers This review would hardly be complete without some mention of them but lacking official confirmation they are not Intended as a statement of facts They were as follows That tho San Pedro fs backed by 1 the Rio Grande lines v2 by the Bur Hngton 3 by the Rock Island 1 by the Colorado Southern nnd Colorado Midland That John W Gates would develop Utah coaJ and iron That the Central Pacific was to be parted from the SOuthern Pacific and given to the Union Pacific THE OVERLAND ROUTE CutOffs Completed and Many More Ordered In last years review the figures were I given on tho Union Pacific cutoffs which werc all completed during 1301 and the saving resulted in 30J miles in distance CS67 degrees In curvature and the grade reduced to a maximum of less than 1 per cent During the summer sum-mer a newspaper train was run over the road and the work was detailed in every paper of prominence all over the United States This year the same kind of work will be done on the Southern Paclllc west of Ogden There lsat this writing nothing official as to which cutoff from Lucln willbe adopted and built but as surveys have been wade for both the lake trestle and the south shore cutoff the company Is seemingly In earnest about making a cutoff 1L Is impera tive to obliterate the Promontory and if the road comes to Salt Lake as it has been believed it would that result would be accomplished and at the same time the entrance to Salt Lake would I be secured and connection made with the Union Pacific by a shorter better and easier route in every way Some months ago The Tribune In detail showed the superiority of the south shore line The Union Pacific Is still nt work on the project but nothing has been decided The entrance of the Overland Route to Salt Lake would be the biggest piece of local railroad news that could be recorded and all well posted men firmly believe that the roads will eventually pass through the only olty in I tho intermountain region Railroad Notes It was a great year The year 1901 broke the record for gross earnings but 1002 promises to eclipse the recordbreaker The year was also a recordbreaker for ra41 road news S W Eccles resigned as general traffic traf-fic manager of the Oregon Short Line to become traffic manager of the American Amer-ican Smelting and Refining company C K Bannister died In Ogden Utah He was a wellknown civil engineer George J Gould visited Salt Lake The Gould Interests also secured the Colorado Midland The union station matter is up again Charles M Hays resigned as president presi-dent of the Southern Pacific E IL HarrIman was elected president of tho Southern Pacific Wall street had a panic over the efforts ef-forts of the Harriman syndicate to wrest from the Hill syndicate control of the Northern Pacific To date Hill seems to retain the control Tho Short Line bought the Utah Paclllc Possibilities for 1002 New shops for both roads at Salt Lake two lines well on the way to Los Angeles branches to mining camps development of Iron country ore and coal Southern and Union Pacific to Salt Lake The Oregon Short Line general offices of-fices burned The offices are now located l lo-cated in temporary quarters but on March 1st will he reestablished In elegant ele-gant rooms of new Deserct building Messrs D E Burley and G W Heinlz as heads of the passenger departments de-partments of tho two local roads continued con-tinued their work advertising Salt Lake Utah and the whole intermountain intermoun-tain region Larry Ma Hoy died The Utah Central tore up its track from Sugar House ward to Third West and occupied the now track outside the city limits The Salt Lake Los Angeles had a fine passenger traffic to Saltalr Close to HOOO000 passed through the Salt Lake clearinghouse representing the earnings of local railroads during the fiscal year The Burlington did not come but Salt Lakers still look l for It and the company Is still surveying lines toward tho West Four of the greatest railroad moves of the year centered Jn Utah the Union Pacific purchasing i Southern Pacific tho legal fight between the Oregon Short Line and San Pedro the purchase pur-chase of tho Colorado and Utah systems sys-tems by George Gdufd 1 and the fight over tho Northern Pacific which was primarily to keep the Burlington from extending to Salt LakeS Lake-S J Henry was appointed traffic manager of tho Colorado Springs Crlpplo Creek Arthur J Van Kuran found guilty of embezzling 8000 from Oregon Short I Line of which ho had been local treasurer trea-surer C H Jenklnson was made local treasurer trea-surer of the Oregon Short Line vice A II Van Kuran removed J D S Spcncervivas mcvdo assistant 0 general passenger agent Oregon Short Line The street car systems of Salt Lake wero consolidated George J Gould and others bought tho Denver Rio Grande which road in turn bought a majority of Rio Grande Western stock The greatest railroad and financial deal In the worlds history vas last year when the Union Pacific bought the Southern Pacific The roads meet In Utah D R Gray succeeded W E Coman as general agent of the Oregon Short Line arid Grays l jurisdiction covers all the Harriman roads The general agencies of the Southern Pacific and the Denver Rio Grande were abolished the former being taken over by the Oregon Short Line and the latter by the Rio Grande Western one result of two bIg purchases of Gould and Harriman New officers were elected for Rio Grande lines and new titles for those of the Western who were retained J M Herbert went to the Southern Pacific and later came to the Rio Grande lines as manager The Union Pacific completed its great cutoffs AudHor Theron Geddes resigned The auditors force of the Rio Grande Western moved Denver T M Schumacher was made acting traffic manager of the Oregon Short Line Col D C Dodge retired from railroad work J 1 C Stubbs was made traffic director of the Harriman roads Number of tons of coal mined daily on Oregon Short Line January 11896 0 number of tons of coal mined daily January 1 1902 6000 The Wyoming t Western built In 1900 did a splendid traffic for the first jeir of Its existence The Oregon Shotft Line will show ocr 10000000 gross In 1902 It showed 1953 l than 5000000 In 1895 In 1S9G only 76S71 tons of coal originated origi-nated on the Oregon Short Line In 1902 the tonnage will be 2000000 quite an advance but It tells the greatest story of all in relation to the segregation of the 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