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Show M W. LIE'S FIRST MSBQUffi. TRIP. WAS ONE LONG OVATION;IVEM CAR . ' WAS CMWMBTO Many Through Passengers Who Stop Over to See Salt Lake; Everybody Is Enthusiastic Enthu-siastic Over New Route. BULLETIN. . . : Th'e First regular train over the San Pedro arrived, here at 10:45 o'clock this xndrning, crowded to the guards. , active and full of life. It Is now a case of "All aboard for California by the Salt Lake Route!" What a Passenger Saw. Wilbur Flsk Brock was on the train as the special representative of the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Brock has filed dispatches to his paper daily since the train left Los Angeles. Monday evening even-ing at 7:30 o'clock, noting the progress of run and making comments on the character of the country traversed by the new road and upon the conditions of the new towns and settlements. Mr. Brock will be In Salt Lake City for several days as telegraphic correspondent corre-spondent of the Times. . r Regarding his trip on the first train from Los Angeles, Mr. Brock said: Fine Roadbed. The roadbed is so smooth that the passenger -.would not know but what he- is being hauled over an old trunk line "if he did not look out the window. Railroad building or permanent way, as the Germans appropriately call it. has been reduced to the highest science and that "science is understood by the builders of the Clark road from Salt Lake to Los Angeles and San Pedro. "But when the first passengers looked out the windows, they realized that they were in a brand new country, so far as civilization goes. We woke up In the Mojave desert of California, after af-ter a night of good sleep. For seventy-five seventy-five miles before the Nevada, line is reached the road traverses a plateau of excellent soil. There is not a ranch In sight. In some places bunch-grass, the best range feed known. Is In evidence. evi-dence. The railroad has demonstrated that water may be had for the digging. Not a Desert. Amid, a roar of welcome from sirens j bigT5d small,, the first through pas-. pas-. senger train eastbound over the new San Pednv Los Angeles & 'Salt Lake - railroad arrived in Salt Lake this morning. morn-ing. It was Just 40:45 a. m. when the train backed Into the yards. . The platforms and tracks were crowded. crowd-ed. .Handkerchiefs '.were waved and the 300 people on board climbed to the ground happy and pleased at having been of the numberto make the initial trip. ' The .train was scheduled to arrive at i 6:30, but the heavy train of ten . stand- i ard Pullmans was delayed through no fault of the management. Along the whole route people had congregated to give the train welcome. At Riverton there were floral and fruit offerings and many impromptu speeches made. The . whole district traversed by the nex :r--Toad-wa1n gala dress," and every , one turned out to bid welcome to the new road. . : '. . V . .. Many Photographs Taken. Photographs enough to stock a mammoth mam-moth art gallery were taken at each station. As the train pulled Into the - station at the Oregon Short Line depot this morning there was a staff of half a dozen camera men. Every one "who was who" was snapped and pictures y were taken of those who hope to be "who" some day. It was like a holiday gathering. . Every one was on the qui " vive. "There she comes!" passed the cry from Hp to lip as engine No. 408 loomed . into view. At the throttle was Engineer John Edgar.- The train was run on a " siding and turned and then drawn by switch engine No.. 620 of the Oregon Short Line, and the heavy train was pulled alongside the station on the center cen-ter track. . . "That the so-called Mohave desert and some of the deserts of Nevada will grow fine cereals is demonstrated by the growth of volunteer oats, barley and wheat at the abandoned railroad camps. The seed was scattered In the feeding of horses. I predict an agricultural agri-cultural future for those plateaus. The fact that water is obtainable at from forty to 200 feet makes the region habitable. hab-itable. "There is now and will be a fine local lo-cal market for everything produced in that country because of the miners who Infest every hill and mountain range and who need supplies. Fine Prospecting Season. "By the way, prospectors who come out to Las Vegas say that this is a fine season for prospecting in Nevada. The springs are flowing full and there are more standing pools than for years past. They say that for the next two months will be the best time of the entire year , for traveling in the mountains moun-tains and on the benches. "Las Vegas! Well, it Is worth a Journey across the continent Just to see that town. It Is one of the finest sites 'for a plains city that I ever saw. It has everything in location to make it an imjortant little city; and it has advantages ad-vantages which will make it a pleasant place to live. I estimate that the place now contains about 1000 men and women, wo-men, mostly men. It's population is increasing in-creasing at the rate of about 100 a day. Fine Scenic Line. "I have traveled all the transcontinental transconti-nental lines and I found things of interest in-terest in landscape and people and industries in-dustries and commercial possibilities which I have not seen on the other lines. In landscape effects there Is nothing else' on the continent of America Amer-ica Just like it. ' This great enterprise of Senator Clark will be a great benefit to both Salt Lake City and Los An-reles." An-reles." The passengers on the train and their destinations were: I Reinhard Happech. Detroit, Mich.; Beatrice Bea-trice Bird. Oakley, Wyo.; Nancy J Bridge- Kaneas City; A. Truesdell and wife. Pine Grove. Colo.; W. Coow. Lexington. Lex-ington. Neb.; James K. Wallace, Corao. Neb.; Miss Zelah Diddle, Buckyns. O.; Joseph Jo-seph Zumbo, Roxbury. O.; L. Fally, Ex-Iro, Ex-Iro, la.; James -Harrington and wife. Worcester. Mass.; S. D. Fleming. E. U Collins. Chicago; M. J. Gllbo. Akron. O.; Mrs. William Hopper. Mrs. C. H. Wood. Prove- City. Utah; W. R. Hotehea. Mrs. Dr. Harriman and daughter. Rrantford Ontario. Canada; Mrs. B. Kroslng. Milwaukee; Mil-waukee; Mrs. F. G. Kloke. Dodge. Neb : Mrs. Lizzie B. Froley. Riverside; Miss Clara Nobbs. Mt. Sterling. I1L; L. T Thomas, wife and mother. Colorado Springs: H. . M. Wier, Cambridge, 111.; M. L. Germaine, H. D. Vanderveer Las Vegas; Col. D. C. Dodge and wife; Georae L. McDonough and wife. Omaha. Neb Mrs. J. T. Mc Williams. J. B. Kurts Lai Vegas: Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Caddigan. Donald Caddigan, Kansas City; Dr. E 8 Burton. Bullfrog; N. B. Harmon, p. J). rnn tinned a jto 1) Neatly-Garbed Porters. At the vestibule entrances stood neatly garbed porters.' As the train came to a. stoi they leaped down and placed the stools on the ground to make easier the alighting. There was the same noncha-- noncha-- lance about them as though a little thing like the advent of a hew road was but a passing detail. They helped the passengers off" with the briskness and dispatch as though the road was one of the oldest in the country. The train was in charge of Conductor John F. Barry and the Pullmans in charge of Pullman Conductor H. C. Trout.. The. first man oft the train was Col. ' D. C. Vpodge of Denver, for years vice-president vice-president of the Rio Grande system, and eof the best-known railroad men in the country. ; Kenneth C. Kerr, of former newspa-' newspa-' ; per distinction, and now the traveling 'passenger agent of the new road, was the second one to alight. Then came Attorney C. O. Whittemore. Wilbur Brock, staff correspondent of the Los ", Angeles. Times, came next, with enough ' , luggage to fill a van. y To Continue Journey. , ' The list printed elsewhere shows the destination of the passengers. The tourist tour-ist cars will be switched on to the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line, and " they will go on their Journey over the Union Pacific. They remain here until 5 o'clock this afternoon. The rain let up at the time of the arrival, ar-rival, and everybody got out for a look around. They bought souvenirs of Salt Lake irt such quantities that there was ,.. soon a call for an extra supply from up'-town. up'-town. Everybody knew everybody else. If they 'didn't, all formalities of Introduction Introduc-tion were waved. The big tralnful was like one happy family. All were sharing shar-ing in the general prosperity. . Praise by Passengers. - "KJnest trip ever" was the word that was echoed and re-echoed from coach to coach.. In all, there were more- than 300 people. To show how travel will be tm this line, this train carried an unusually un-usually large number of people bound , for Las Vegas and other gold points In Nevada. The sentiment seemed to be ' that Nevada contains enough of gold for everybody, and many now bound east are going to come out again. It was a gala morning for the officials - of the new road. It Is true that the weather might have been a trifle more . propitious, but then what's the odds. Every one was "de-light-ed" and a llt-tie llt-tie thing like a shower couldn't put a "jamper on their enthusiasm. .And the first train is In and the ser-vr ser-vr M inaugurated. Everything passed . . c-f-"iTthy. Not a sign of an accl-.dent. accl-.dent. L-By telegraph from Los) Angeles Is thtf news that the train bound west ; Lf t S. , The new line is now FIRST THROUGH TRAIN (Continued from page 1.) Delmar, Las Vegas; j: L. Benton. Cincinnati; Cincin-nati; G. 8. Kimball.-Mrs. G. Ford ice. R. W. Nlcol. J. Oberndorfer. Salt Lake City; K. C. Anthony. H. O. Harrison. Maude A. Stone. Las Vegas; A. P. Massey, Boston, Mass.; H. T. Gentry,-Salt Lake; W. A. Smith. C. G." Smith, San' Bernardino; Francis Cutler. O. H. Kllsker. Riverside; James Lombard. Salt Lake City; D. R. Buckle, Kelsey, Nev.; Thomss C. Holmes. Las. Vegas; T. H. Standard. Poroonce, Colo.; N. B. Weaver, E. E. Brlggs. W. G. Llngsmann. Las Vegas; W. Whittlesey. Empire, Kan.; C. R. Jones. Las Vegas; J. P. Bernard, Colorado Springs; L. W. Hobbs. Bird's Eye, Ind.; Conrad Meeker, James West, Salt Lake City, J. H. Woods. Otis; George W. Settle, Boxex; B. Ender-leln. Ender-leln. Las Vegas; C. Ree, J. C. Stevens, Salt Lake City; B. T. Chapman, Good Springs; Conrad Wannebo, Salt Lake City; J. L. Harper, Las Vegas; W. A. de Groot. Salt Lake City- William McLaughlin, McLaugh-lin, Brant; Thomas Davis. Ogden; John R. Connoughson, Ogden; P. T. Allyn and wife. Ontario; S. S. Kennedy. Salt Lake; Anna Wernet, Denver; Mrs. H. C. Smith. Las Vegas; Louis Richards, Las Vegas; Rev. Allen Bartley. Callente; Mrs. M. J. Cameron, Las Vegas; J. T. Kelt, Good Springs; Mrs. Mary G. Bante, Las Vegas; Mrs. L. C Pierce, Las Vegas; Day B. Hcyt, Denver; George Sheppard and wife, Ijis Vegas; Mrs. B. W. Mitchell. Salt I.ake; I. T. Dyer, superintendent telegraph Salt Lake road, Salt Lake City; Spencer Randall. Ada., Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. 8. Swenlngsen and son. Austin, Minn.; Miss Sarah Carr, Austin, Minn.; Mrs. F. A. Sanborn and daughter. South Bend, Ind.; Mrs. Chester G. Wilcox, Wllkesbarre. Pa. ; Arthur Wilcox. Wilkesbarre, Pa.; A. M. Randall, Riverside: Fred D. Fleming A. J. Parrls, Paul Wright, Joe Knowland, J. A. Adams, Fay Wood, E. B. Eisner, Las Vegas; M. Plattmann, Butte. Mont.; H. P. O. D. Rumark, San Bernardino; E. J. Elswlck, Mrs. A. C. Lemmon. Mrs. N. M. Smith, Salt Lake City; J. E. Long. St. Louis; Edward W. Gurrod. W. M. Sliver, Lirt Vegas; C. M.- Brooks. Otis: Albert Pickering. William Pickering, Salt Lake City; H. O. Congdon, Las Vegas; A. Mc-Corley, Mc-Corley, Kansas City; W. Heaton. Las Vegas; Ve-gas; C. E. Redman. Long Beach; George M. Metzger. Riverside; J. Russell Wsrd. Mrs. J. R. Ward. Harold Vivian, Warrow Point; Dr. C. A. Whiting. M. Greenwold, Salt Lake; S. U. Atterman, 8. M. Shults, Mrs. E. A. Weber. Fred Hansen, I-as Vegas; Ve-gas; Arthur II. Barley, James Ownnell, Ontario; T. H. Henderson, Lockgar; G. L. Frlsbee, Pomona. - D. C. Sorenson. Sarah Carr, Mrs. 8. Swenlngsen, Willie Swenlngsen. Mrs. A. B. Francis. O. McCurley and wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Carr, Mrs. T. E. Eslow, A. J. Kllburn, Salt Lake; Arthur Pefley, John Compher. Mrs. Nell, Las Vegas; W. E. Crandall. Mrs. J. E. Phelps, Dr. M. Rockwell. Mrs. Helen Palamerlle. A. T. Bryant, Mrs. E. Elbrevaunt. 8. S. Fleming, Flem-ing, Mrs. E. F. James, Orvllle R. Seeley, William J. Kerr. Kenneth C. Kerr, Charles M. Kereslng. Salt Iake City; J. C. De Mandel, Las Vegas; Berard Roth, Denver; R. Robertson and wife. Miss Jessie Jes-sie Robertson. Petroskey, Mich.; J. P. Bernard, Salt Lake City; G. Harry Wright, J. E. Thompson, Las Vegas; G. R. Lemmer, ex-agent Northwestern rail-read. rail-read. Chicago: J. H. Pearmon, assistant manager Northwestern railroad. Chicago; C. N. Brown. Las Vegas; Douglas White, C. O. Whlttemore, general attorney, Thomas Cullen. superintendent. Salt Lake; Mr. and Mrs. George Hough, J. P. Plummer. Las Vegas; J. L. Benton, Alma, Al-ma, Cal.; C. W. Fulkerson, Mrs. J. Flnne-mcre. Flnne-mcre. Salt Lake; C. A. Stone, Las Vegas; A. 8. Price and wife, G. W. Wadsworth. Salt Lake; R. S. Bassatt, Phillip P. Grep-pln. Grep-pln. Las Vegas: E. KVGarrlson. Riverside; A. P. Mossey. Salt Lake. |
