| Show J l SAN PEDRO NOV OWNS THE I OSL S L SOUTH LINES f Official Announcement of Deal Is Made at Last BARRIERS ARE PUT ASIDE Senator W 1 A Clarks Skillful Diplomacy It Is to Be Pushed to Completion and Will Be an Absolutely Independent In-dependent System > At last official announcement has tome of the termination of negotiations signed sealed and delivered insuring the completion of the San Pedro Los lngeles Salt Lake railroad as speed i ly u 9 money brains and muscle can accomplish that great result For more than a year desultory announcements an-nouncements and unauthorized reports Hive indicated this result but many impediments have blocked the way First was the removal of common rail toad rivalry It seemed for a long time 1 that what appeared to be Irreconcilable j Interest between the Southern Pacific Oregon Short Line and the Union Pacific Pa-cific on the one hand and the Rio Grande Western and other Eastern talhoad Interests upon the other hand would result In the construction of a parallel line or no line at all At last y through the skillful diplomacy of Senator Sen-ator William A Clark of Montana Senator Sen-ator Thomas Kearns of Utah and other parlies Interested In a short line to the Pacific a happy solution of tho situation situa-tion him been obtained whereby the Han Pedro will be constructed as speedily I speed-ily ns possible from both ends and the line when completed may be used by > all railroad corporations entering Salt Lake City and desiring a southern CalIfornia I Cal-Ifornia outlet H INDEPENDENT LINE The San Pedro system will he an Independent pendent line It will be controlled h absolutely and owned by Its own officers A and all railroad lines will have access e to its facilities on equal terms This Insures y In-sures Salt Luke City against any combination com-bination which will preclude railroad I rivalry or fined arbitrary rates to the Pacific slope In all that may be saId fts to the future of this new line there I Is nothing more Important to Utah There have been two great fears en TJ Urtalned t by the citizens of Utah ever tk Incc thin line was projected First was i that it would bo completed If at all at ae home f indefinite period The oecond yli I that when finally crlmplr ted It would bo g J Sunder such ownership and direction as Ijlo precluuc rivalry and Insure a con ii Mlnuuncc of railroad monopoly All ap 1 PihenaloJ1i have been set at rest by the t tfKotlatlons which were completed yes j I tUrday t and which make the San Pedro p system an independent line and which will give accommodations to all other lines which may desire the use of Its rails upon equal terms SENATOR KEARNS CONFIDENT Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah a director and one of the largest Individual Indi-vidual shareholders In the San Pedro system who has devoted many months of time cooperating with Senator Clark of Montana last night gave to a Tribune Trib-une reporter some Interesting details of the closing negotiations and the future intentions of the now railroad to the Pacific Senator Kearns was willing to talk only upon generalities rather than to name persons and figures as a whole but he was willing to Indicate a sufficient suf-ficient amount of the minor details to show that the new system will be of much greater Importance to Utah and the Intermountain country than has heretofore been suspected by Tribune I readers |
