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Show 40 RAILROAD REVIEW FOR 1904 H I I TThTTrlt'Une figured eM. 'JJeace of the State fSll3; : today tlv r.. !s:t...; -i-i.hln , her b-r R-- over Soldier V' '".. r ,n increase of 5ve y-ar?. duo to rc- ra 03 for the Oregon Short "tSfe Route Ir hUn.al KjS" railway H" J has BrtnrnV'v lov.n? tlv- -r -gafcol 0 r cn,i permanent B tlorf"ftU the building and Eorunt of I - Sunshine of Los An- B-. railroad history three Kb,V ! tnd out in promi- ,J Ltd the Union and 9 P trK-al of the welcomed lit- "r.lo Grande, with Its f'ffnm.-... In 1883. and r ih short cut to Los gpilro nnJe th Faff,' Fa-ff,' th"-' th?ee important f'iruollon there were many WSe. but eacl ing M . HSS on the future of the Pi-'!- mods passed Salt Jhrt l'e pwFrr-sslvo citizens V' j nf thr-lr own arid It Is to j'rSl.n.t Lake th, Utah hMfs Ihl? n.y SHm I, nd In passinp It will M 2m!-'" not." tl...' Hi- P"li. v BfcjlLake the go-by In iv'".: - .W.stMo be a matter of i -?2HL railroad management, and nt-nrfH nnd line chniv C. rtand as a monument HrlBro' of bmidlne lH the old K, r m i.iltv bomo more ' i .ke Route ' rK'ti tralr.f. when the Moffat ' "R'dj, rn Pa IfV er the fc.s-lth far less mlle-rrc headquarters for all "W,"i'h ' h tin r !r 1 " Htt this elty l destined to l. SKlrillroad renter for the Inter-W?r. Inter-W?r. Trom here palatial IR:.'Vreiich tl e .!' ti pat riffs of the North IfciKlfcrMt. arid In n fer- weeks. Svrr through passengers' from jJBltoLc! Ar.geles dlrectl through I Cc'.oredo. nometlilnp l'k 100 MHiTtbn completed on the Den-fcKJiiritrr Den-fcKJiiritrr & Paelflc which If Mertllne from Denver to Salt la San Franclseo, the office I Sw ft ffji'f rn Pacifle Is hu?il ISE a Torklnir up corrected sur-it sur-it vBr. a'.a belnc received there XftlKa (MfL' a do7.' :i corps of en-b en-b the field mostly around the JfBnstiln regions of 1 ifofn la. Kat roads ill do for rtah can-JirrKtlmated, can-JirrKtlmated, hut th.elr -om-MBkKt of the present. Just now TSM t-!ns; roriirleted between Salt SsBfc Los Anfeles, and this Impor-nitBBb Impor-nitBBb on of the i5Teate't Interest Knerally. JHULT LAKE ROTJTE. WbW LIfl' Practically Completed fcSson Ready for Trains. BSbSKTot many attempts to build xMBWrilTCT between Salt Lake and ltipfcpl'J Is too wei krown to call jgpte3 at this time. For thirty I Bft hu bfn r: favorite toplo with Igjpflki34 commercial bodies. To-LJpl To-LJpl Ij practically completed lgjBpriJli are not actually joined. fconaot be wider than a mile or !B0Si at that memorable banquet BAijl(-5 to Messrs Ross ('lark pbca. In Auxusr, 1900, it was an-jHJttit an-jHJttit a cr.mpiiuy lie-i,l.jd hy "llim A. Clark of Montana IKL, , rrillrod between !.'', e news was spread low iUe la'1'1' but It m ?J'J be true, and many fco JL1?,'-" f eoorl Judgment tal,7' ra"road builders, but KuthJ? 0fnnlah k, rt hard at iilS ;' whleh ,. ,b a com- ME cinciS,0'-, 80 far :'s building loinT Jo'ninK of the rails ES I" The ,,, i iKbuii, fry bwt thrJ old lines BB! In t"0 ,r,J,n "n, f''"' fc. Pedro i frnm thlH dr.t.- -"Whrr., A""' & Salt rjMx 19 Physical condl- 'JSfK1 Wri rrf0f,,i,r,I"r" of the 2mJ?F L f.he Salt Lakl Wlr 'ban r,,lly t0" a ftory IWItl i.ird8' this little I'lSW T 'Vel1 known, the f fM.u'ho f ,,' "J oth.-rs .,f si R)S c4Ji: ffndro harbor th.L;,,,,Ul1 & Salt W follomng mileage. divided Into Interest inff groups- Miles I.es Anseieg terminal 48, Hought from Oregon Short Line 610.M New construction 3' 3 Total owned 010. 2S Tra kagc rlchts 117 3 Total operated 1.0CS.TS In trackage rights 1h included the O. S. L lines to Sandy and to Buena Vista from Salt Lake the Santa Fe between Daggett and Cotton, and the Southern Pacific near San Bernardino Thus a big system Is built up without constructing con-structing Unprofitable parallel lines and in Utah the former branch lines of the Oregon Short Line become a most Important Im-portant part Of the busy through route -Taking this same total of mileage, the total in each State is Utah, 403.28 miles; Nevada, 210.8 miles; California. 332.7 miles Total. 1036.78 miles. New const ruction Includes tho main lino In Nevada and California from Daggett to Ca'llente, the Riverside line and the Nowhouse extension. Shortened Distance. While this system consists of over lOuu miles, as above, lt should be mentioned men-tioned right here that the distance from Salt Lake to Los Angeles via the Leamington Lea-mington cut-off will be 777 miles. It" may also be of Interest to show that , via Lehl Junction and Fairfield lt In , but 771 miles and via Nephl lt Is 793 9 miles, these figures being of 1 alue. as the people of the three lines will be able to take train dally for Los Angeles without coming Into Salt Lake. thene to Ogden and laying over until train time For Instance Tlntlc will have a run of but 697 miles to L09 Angeles, ProvO 746 4 miles, Nephl 706 1 miles, Mllford ;.72 miles, and so on. The halfway half-way point Is far Into Nevada, so Cull-ente Cull-ente and points north will be dependent upon Salt Lake as a Jobbing center. Kuch settlement south of Salt Lake on the old N-phl line, the Salt Lake & Western district, and the Leamington cut-off via StOCktOn and Tlntic, the bram-h to Frisco and Newhouse. will have the opportunity of coming to Salt Lake or going to Los Angeles, and the railroad will at onfc see what short dlM.ineeg and good accommodations will do In building up passenger travel. The Important question Is: "What will this new road do for Utah'" Tt will reduce the fate from Salt Lake to Los Angeles from $44.50 to $35 It will redui e the time in transit from fifty-two to twenty-eight hours. Later It will be made by the Limited In twenty-four hours It will re. lure the Pullman fare from the rate for three rl.iys to tho rnte for one day, which will be not. over $5. It will reduce the dining car expense from $8 to $3 between the two cities. The total of tho expenses saved will enable a prson to have from $20 to J30 spending money when arriving at tho California oily These aro but the things which the average tourist and traveler wants to know. The Trains. Commercially, however, the freight department will show- the best results toward really helping this city and State The line will at once take Its place as one of the main traveled roads from the Atlantic to the Pacltb- clipper clip-per ehips from Belgium will glldo Into San Pedro harbor and dl8 hargre cargoes car-goes of steel rails Into the waiting cars of the Salt Lake Route These rails may be destined for Canada, but they will pass directly through this city. As the train comes north lt will have orders or-ders to take the siding every ten miles for one of the trains of coal going to San Pedro to be loaded on ships for some port In the Pacific. Fruit trains ill come this way Grain from rtah valley will go down to be taken into ships for Port Arthur. Then, for example, the best beer made has found its way by tralnload into Manila. If the Salt Lake Route can get its contracting con-tracting agents at work, such shipments ship-ments as these might be brought this 0 i l I - , ; -j ! Engineer's Onmp, Moapo. way, and so on to the lost thing In commodities com-modities Now, every train means a certain number of men employed HH wage- earners, and every mile of track kept up means another certain number of Am the bulk of the track Is In rtah th.- bulk of men employed will IlV4 In this State As the trains will start from this city, the engines will be manned from here, cleaned here, re-palred re-palred in North Salt I.:ik-, while the ssmo will be true of tho cars. In every way It meanH a great help to i he S'ate. a i a I p.- Lilly at those points reached by the road. The knm-kers have said that It cannot be much advantage; as the mileage In Utah is the same as In past years True enough, but In past years that mileage, with the exception of the Leamington cut-off, was allowed to rest quietly with one mixed train per day below Juab Now these Mine- old dilapidated llnex have been wiped out of existence and Instead of the one mixed train dally except Sun lav belOW Juab, the region arouii.l Bfllford will see four llmlteds d.nlv. trains that are equal to any O til-err til-err und tWO Of them excelling even the. Pennsylvania trains Then the dispatcher's dis-patcher's sheet will show dozens of freights, southbound or northbound, and Mllford. for Instance. With its one-atall one-atall engine-house and one-room station, sta-tion, will develop into coal, water and registering point, with 8 fine brick station. The same will be true all along I the line, nnd points which have heretofore here-tofore been very dull will note the Increase In-crease In traffic as It helps their town Then, the Salt Lake Route will complete com-plete a line of railroad In connection with other lines, extending from San Diego and San Pedro on the Pacific, via Los Angeles and Salt Lake tp Butte, Helena and the heart o Alberta, Alber-ta, ''anada. Just imagine the demand for Iyos Angeles fruits among Butte's easy spenders nt t 'hrltm;is time and the picture Is a fair exposition of another an-other great traffic development for lh-new lh-new road. Sooner or later Alberta Is going to show somr wonderful development, develop-ment, and the north and south line, the only one, by the way. this side of the Illinois central, will at once feel the effeets of the completion of this link. Will Tako the Tourists. A most Important Item to be considered consid-ered Is that while San Francisco holds the commercial supremacy of the Pacific Pa-cific coast, yet the average tourist rarely rare-ly states that he Kong to San Fran-o, Fran-o, but Its I .or Angeles or Pasadena Take up the leading magazines from the library table today and con the advertisements ad-vertisements of Eastern roads nllurln? New L'nglanders or Virginians to pass the winter in California. It will be Bet n that Los Angeles and Its environs seem to always bo at the Pa. me end There Is the Sunset the Santa Fe, the Rock Island limltedS all working for Los Angeles, An-geles, and the Santa Fe as an added attraction, has Just built on the rim of the Grand canyon a magnificent Inn. which is being extensively exploited. It should always be borne in mind, however, that one great attraction for tdurlsts Is Salt Lake City and the lake of the same name. With this city and Los Angeles county on the same route lt will make a tourist route that will be unsurpassed, and In summer the Salt Lake Route can have its bright young pcipsenger men In the Fast book people this waj by showing how a side trip through the Yellowstone and then the the other side of Good Springs suffered greatly for water, this portion of the desert being without any v. ater at all and this impottant article with all sup-piles sup-piles having to be hauled to the ramps. Las Vegas Is a really pretty spot, an o::s!s In the desert, and here a fine station sta-tion is to be erected and possibly a sanitarium will be built by Senator Clark, who owns the whole range with all water rights It is destined to be the important point between tho two cities and tho connection for the extension ex-tension to Bullfrog A Mission style station will go up at Las Vegax, such being the standard for all stations In populous points reached b the road in California Such stations are already in use at Riverside, Pomona and Ontario. Ixis Angeles will have a beauty and so will Pasadena. The grade Is standard uldth at top, lr.ld with seventy-five-pound steel and with 3000-foot sidings every five miles The whole line will be ballasted. It crosses the Santa Fe branoh running run-ning north from Blake, 10S miles this side of DaggeU ho It will be of value to either road. Each ran use the other line between Gila and Daggett should occasion demand From Daggett the S inta Fe line over Cajon pasB Is to be used and the Southern Paelflc track will be used near San Bernardino for a few miles I From Riverside to Ios Angeles and San Pedro the company has built Its own tracks and here the finest construction con-struction seen In the I.'r.lted States can he found The great concrete bridge 1 over the Santa Ana river, the Mission style stations, the smooth ballasted roadbed nd right of way running through orange groves and all the beauties of California outdoor life, make It a line that will at on-e prove the most attractive In the country. It will be months before all the little det ills are worked out, but the track Is expected to be Joined today. In another an-other month trains may be able to the Pacific roads It should be added In all fairness that the engineers of that day were not equipped as the engineers of today. The Lucia cut-on", tunnel through the Sierras und bridge from B nlcla to Port Costa did not enter Into In-to tho plans seriously. Had lh- y, the road would have stood for all lime without line changes. Ao It Is the Old Central Pacific has been rebuilt from Ogden to Reno at an enormous cost. The Western Pacific has all thse facts to guide its engineers It Is known that a better and a shorter line around the south end of the Great Salt lake enn be secured, that Salt Lake is the Mecca for tourists and cajinot be ignored, ig-nored, that a better route over Beck-w Beck-w Ith oi Frcdonla can be adopted which will require no xnowshods and but a short tunnel, that the line Int.. Sin Francisco will tap the great ships of the whole Pariib and that San Francisco Fran-cisco Is the commercial gateway to the Orient. All these things are known to the Western Pacific promoters. They have run five distinct lines through Nevada, they have tapped Deep Creek, they have Investigated the Great American desert and the Great Salt lake from every point of vantage and they are r?ady to it ike their final report re-port to 195 Broadway, N Y. Here Is the route as gleaned by The Tribune from official sources. San Francisco, freight terminals at China basin near the Potrero, passenger terminal ter-minal at the ferry which is controlled by the State Board of Harbor Commissioners. Commis-sioners. Oakland and environs the coming residence and manufacturing town of thi ' iv of San Francisco ' Stockton the town at the mouth of the big rlcer and at the head of the Wheat shipping country. Thenco to MarySVllle and Orollle. touching intermediate inter-mediate points to the section near Qulncy, reaching agricultural, livestock, live-stock, mining and timber regions of that countr thenco to Beckwlth pass by one of tho most beautiful scenic wsj " Mod en a Railroad Station. Journey to California can be taken. Combinations like these can be figured upon by the hour. and. as It Is Just such combinations that count v. ith a prospective pros-pective passenger, lt Is safe to say that the new line will more than control its share of through traffic of this description descrip-tion At present Senator Clark has announced an-nounced his Intention of putting on the Los Angeles Limited to run from Chicago Chi-cago to Los Angeles via the St Paul. Union Pacific and Salt Lake Route. It will be the very finest train that the Pullman works can build. In addition to this, there will be a local through train each way every day, these trains to run la the Qphlr route. For the Provo and Nephl route, however, a local lo-cal train will run through dally and have all the advantages of the other train, which it will connect with morning morn-ing and evening at Lynn Junction. In addition to these six through trains the company will place in service local trains as conditions warrant, One thing Is certain: the Salt Lake Route will have the Rnest train service ever know n to those lines w hl h have been operate ! In Utah for so many years. The Roadbed, As has been slated, In addition to completing com-pleting the link between Paggi tt i ii. and Caliente, Nev., the lines acquired from the Oregon Short Line, with the exception of the Leamington CUt-ofl have had to be rebuilt The Leamington cut-off has been ballasted Its entire length. This line ends at Lynn Junction, Junc-tion, where lt Joins the line from Salt Lake and Nephl. Below Lynn Junction the roadbed was widened at top to eighteen feet, and the whole line Is being be-ing relald with seventy-flve-pound at el It will be ballasted with tufa. A 3000-foot 3000-foot elding has been put In every Ave miles. The old bridges were renew... and strengthened, a feature being the continuous ballast deck, which not only deadens the noise, but protects the bridge from fire and weather 1 lie standard for stations, nectlon houses and other structures in Utah In of the regular red and green frame sUle, but elaborate stations will eventually go up at fu.ii points as ProMi. Tlntlc Junction, Junc-tion, Mllford, i'allente and other points where a heay traffic Is developed. Modern coaling stations and many water tanks will be erected, much of this work having already been -om-pleled. In the way of shops, the local work win be done in North Salt Lake, where a portion of the big plant Is owned by the Salt Lake Route Sub-terminals will be established at Tlntlc Junction, Lynn Junction and Mllford, but the two most Important terminals on the line will b at Caliente and Las egaH. Nev , 124 miles apart. At tbeso points seven-teen-stall roundhouses will bo erected, with necessary shop appliances, dwellings dwell-ings and general buildings needed at such terminals. Tho new tanks are of 70 000 gallon? capaellv. staifnitu; on Iron pillars set In concrete. The tanks aro of steel. In tt,.- desert Windmills find auxiliary gasoline gas-oline pumps are a part of the tank plant and concrete Is also used for foundations founda-tions at these points. In fact, the lines between Salt Lake and Caliente are being be-ing rebuilt In the most modern und lasting manner, and this work is by far one of the most important In constructing construct-ing B line over which fast passenger and tho heaviest freight trains can operate. The Oonstructlon- The bull. line of the link between Caliente Cal-iente ond Daggett did not present any unusual features except that the gangs operate between Salt Lake and Los Angeles, by June 1 fast time can be made and by October 1 the road will be breaking the record for gross earnings earn-ings ar: well as enjoying the reputation .r being the mosl popular line In the country for the overland Journey to the land of sunshine. The San Pedro, Is Angeles i Salt Lake will do great things for this city and It will at the same lime be demonstrated demon-strated that the other lines will not futfer, lt is destined to take Its place In the very front rank of transcontinental transconti-nental roads and If it gives a train servlc? In keeping with the excellence of construction the public will luive no iff son to complain Its officers from the president, down to i lie men behind the steam shovel are DthuslaStic over the success and each ccpartment Is endea orlng to show the b( st results. Its management Is In Bplendid hands and tho staff at both Salt Lake an I Los Angeles are com? posed Of efficient and courteous railroad rail-road men who are to be congratulated lot the able manner In Which the work h ;s been carried out. The offici s of the Salt Lake Route are William A Clark, president: R '. Kerens, J. Ross Clark and T. E Gibbon, Gib-bon, vice-presidents; R. K Wells, general gen-eral manager, E o Tllton, chief engineer; engi-neer; A. L. Jones assistant; R. K. Brown, engineer of maintenance at Salt Lake; E M. Jessup, engineer of maintenance at Los Angeles, H I Bet-tis. Bet-tis. auditor. W H. Leete, cashier; F. K. Rule, treasurer; E. W Glllett, general gen-eral freight and passenger acrent; H B. Worden, and T. C. Perk, assistants, F. Davlsson, mechanical superintendent. superintend-ent. F A. Waters, tight of way agent, AN'. C. Hussey, claim agent, Ij. B. Stiles storekeeper, N. H. Fester, purchasing agent; F. F Clayton, car accountant; T. P. Cullen. superintendent; J. L. Moore and R. M. Taylor, district freight and passenger agents. |
