| Show h iW 1 t f t j i I J i U Vi miM i Ii Ii iMi t it ii i i i i lr i t i i Ii I ij f W J m m I I FIN HY MN FM JWJ J A fi m N J N It LIMN t j t T KS SENATOR CLARK IS IS IN EARNEST r II I t I f I fI t A N oA NN MM I IM 5 NN N P u n I W r M W w m II 1 I A 1 11 2 I 1 1 1 1 1 w ey s fP 1 eL f Its t F 1 S a s 1 II 1 l l 1 1 t P nl I e f e f 1 f f VM t o 0 1116 1 0 t t 00 to f 0 00 0 t 1 rP p r 1 a J r v t e IV f fIK i iI p t t ta IK I a 1 I t i 4 r rI 1 H Ht I 4 I A L I I L t 1 I 1 f kilt s i T C ARo n t U Vii Maw I i i t I w wr r i 4 l v x v r ri r r g 46 g r f fv i A r r t 1 t S t 1 t A r 1 N 11 lN r OM t f r ACTIVE OPERATIONS ON THE SAN PEDRO j I ILOS LOS ANGELES AND SALT T LAKE RAILROAD A i i n E j A a s j jI I ry 1 k ll N I vw N M x 1 N vv N N N I Ms N N II I II II N N 11 1 NN I I II NN M IN II NN N I NIN N MM N M II II I 1 II M 1 IV X N November 22 1900 there was WUI wast wasa t a notable gathering of busl bust MM wen men at ut the 1 hotel bold In this city with the thIS result mull that within twelve hours hourI th the arld s of at Incorporation ot of 0 the tha tb Us Ids Angeles Angelea Salt l Lab Jake k Railroad company had hadID f ID coo dim drUa up and approved Ar at those who waro ro present wore to cW W A lark dark of ot Montana whoso whose I irs I More the thi drop In copper was wasat wast t at P a 1 year It H C Itt o 0 St Louts Louis with assets placed t l EAt t ht tires 8 S A Bemis ot of St Bt lent th the millionaire bag bug maim tr 11 W V B D stark lark of ot Kansas City III r cruets J toss Koss Clark of 0 Loa Ion grout i oi op and sugar holder or Thomas of ot otIa ofa Ia a ft rt owner of 0 the famous Silver Sliver ln n at Pork Park Cite rity It W S 8 McCoy J k k t tt Iv ll jl ino kno v n Salt gat Luke Lake bunker k t ot I n and ond several other k j wb aim li could write checks that CU cJ 1 bra c nil an the loose change chango 1 1 an A a rag bank iB without finan L mg themselves r f i tot ot together and or F u 1 d thre e with a n com c m fl 1 t Cl n of In the I m of 11 I ate e Lo Los Angelea Snit Salt Lake a I kd J any capital stock 25 26 It t Development lt company capital 0 II lle fUlly ully paW paid up and amI the tho It a f e i n company capital aft o f d 1 to iK v paid paM up All three ant ore HIP file 1 solo purpose ot of ota to a Ilea t u h l JR from rain Snit Salt Lake I fan wpM Pedro Pedlo on op aHIr the line and t r th the e r In ln nes territory K I to it riE TV p BOARD lib Ib a tw few M hi ji a 1018 tho do lt ti It t r niM mr v 1 II t Y ast as It wan waa then tien ot of Mr Ih IC r r d 1 I has hils been changed the I Fan nv I p di i Los Angeles Salt SnIt Lake Leighton of the Terminal toLd roid ro retired rethell from the tho hoard coon anon after atler the absorption of at his line Ilse by llY thu Clark road iced and two names have been for tor others on the di directorate directorate directorate In order that the tho board may have 1100 a n quorum at nt lt It its meetings In III U JI Ioa Angeles some Ramo of tho the members member mom bel having to nearly cross the tho continent whenever It wits necessary for them to get set together tOI After tho tin companies com pun Ies wore were finally filIAlly launched with tho attendant fat fees feell for tor fling filing the Hit articles ot of Incorporation there theme woe u II lull for or some orn time Urn The Time press Irus of the state of ot Utah hailed time the n mt nil vent of n II new neww lino IIno with Joy and primers Ink Ilk proclaimed the tho dawn of at atbrIght brIght days for tor and a 1 big increase In the population of at Salt Soil Lake 1 Tho rho majority ot of time the residents In this and contiguous continuous states stales expected that construction would commence at nt once and nil all kinds kIn lis of ot fantastic predictions were made male As s mouth month by month passed without signs ot of anything on tangible bo be b being ing III done dono doubting doubling arose oroso on nil sides shies and cries of at Hot clot Air All were lore hoard from fro In several quarters In the meantime the promoters of ot tho mho road rand were In no haste to push puah tho the project to a n final Issue they were working assiduously and nn laying plans time tho materialization of ot which me aro now becoming apparent Big nig Je monopolies In tho time railroad world were arrayed against them and every wery move 1100 hod to bo bu figured out ahead Like pro professional professional chess players those tho o In charGo of affairs of tho San Pedro sat eat down and Worked out the problems They anticipated every move moc and play of at then their opponents to checkmate them and when the lime time came to move any an piece from rein a n pawn to a n rook roo Ie subsequent subsequent subsequent quent developments develop men Is have proved that It was the Clark Interests and not liar who said Bald check To tho the onlooker It seemed to he be an ul another another other case caso of Johnny Dull and ond Com Ooin Paul the apparently stronger force mm un 1111 underestimated his hl opponent The story of ot how tho the Clark forces stole a t march marchon on the tho tiling filing of ot maps exposed expo the wagon survey rind and then cornered the tho Interests until a compromise was effected In which terminated ter time Joint survey agreement Is already uV clent lent history Senator Clark has hos said that the road would bo be built and It will be MEN mN EMPLOYED In order that his plans may mil go If 0 through he has gathered around him the host best men that money can get No Noman Noman man Is III better qualified to further his hili Interests thou than T K R J Gibbon third thine vice president of oC tho the company nail ami general counsel Mr Gibbon Inns Imi hn been beon In tho the balance before and amid found toun to Im lf benot not Wanting HIli long bitter and sue HUC fight with the Into Int Collis 1 Huntington In Southern California has hns node made his name one aile of orthe the best bOllt known through that state Ho lie Isn is s a man nun caleu calculated to be a 1 thorn In III the side aide of at time syndicate Not only on Is the legal timber connected with time the San Son ledro road rond of the tho best besl but time the holds good all down don the lint limit Chief Un r Hawgood and that old veteran II n M I McCartney would be hard to 10 du dt duplicate plicate when It earnest comes down 11 ow II to toa toa a knowledge of the time country to b be s traversed by tho the thorand road rand In every oler department yet ot or organized organised the time story star Is the tho same and when the tho Joint survey surle agreement Is du duo duly dui ly I ratified the best of ot contractors will put In the best beat track NEST OF OP a alho The abuse o of at the use of ot adjectives has hns unfortunately been often orton laid at tit the AA I or Dr toe rage writer ana Wb even n the time public ImbUe reads of ot the best of an nn any anything thing It Ii Is PrOM rono to take toke it 11 cum grano grullo sails nails In Utah the time energies of the tho San inn Pedro Ios Angeles and Salt Snit Lake Lako have hn been largely confined to paper though a n deal of survey work has hns been done one At the other end of the line pel 11 haps there theio Is III mesa I s newspaper talk and more I active real work What work has been done dOllo has hns been of ot the tho heat best Tho standard has mss been tot ret for forthe forthe the tho entire main nain Inn In line through to Suit Snit Ial California 1 is III getting Utah will have hlo as ns soon lIoon as ns the pending pen dl trussing litigation has hns been heen settled l time tha joint survey MUre agreement ratified and tho the actual of track Tho The above pictures I tures taken tar for the tho News Newl nt at Junction Cull for will be he duplicated In III Utah nt lit time the crossing time Sun San Pedro Log Ios Angeles tint and Snit Lake Ink Southern California Santa Pet Fee FI roads Just ju t out outside outside side tho the southeast limits of oC Los Ius An Angelon n gobs gelon Is 19 the lime point where the tho main Salt Lake Inke route loule branches off art from the time theold theold old Terminal T road rondo which Is now part of the tho San Pedro system Hero on aro located the construction yards ors of the tho company where the thc material for tor tho the construction of at the time road rond onward to Salt Snit Lake Is being accumulated In enormous quantities to he rushed for tor forward word ward front from this thin base of at supplies as os fast as os can proceed PENNSYLVANIA TRACK That Senator SenD tor Clark Is having the best beRt that money can cnn buy bu Is demon demonstrated when It Is U said that the tM track now non being built In California Is known by tho the name of at Pennsylvania track Senator Clark Is evidently sparing no expense to make his road rond one of at the most mast durable umble I and In the tho country countr says nays HO S the tho Los Angeles Times Nothing but the tho very yer best material A or any nn sort Is ts being uses In the Ule con construction of tragic trade bridges etc ete Tho The new locomotives freight nn amt l passenger tars ears and other equipment too arc aro the best that money one can buy bu Nothing but the best bent pound steel rails ore ate being used These are not spliced together with the old fashioned tn h plates but by b continuous steel joints twentynine pounds each enCh This assures a II smooth smoothness ness and ond easiness of at track not attained by the old aid style of construction Sag Bag Sagging Baggins gins ging rals ralle r II ouch and springing joints are ure Im 1111 Impossible possible under the new system Neith Neither N er fr do the tho rails rest directly on am the wool s but hut on steel Mel platen plate In to the tho t e wood Tons TanH and und tons toni of ot these tie plates are being ts ut dInA d FLAWLESS InA SS Tins m The Tho ties elfin are of the heat t seasoned l redwood 1 und ouch It If one ono be bo found food a f frac fraction tion of at an nn Inch shut elio t of ot the time regulation length or at having ant HUM liaw In It what whatever whatever ever It Is rejected for tor use u o on the tho main mainline line II lie Tho The seine same exacting care is le ex ox exercised 0 In selecting bridge timbers timber piles etc eta not a n stick lick of ot material malarial be beIng b bIng beIng Ing used 1 anywhere In III the construction of ot tho the main line lino that thill has hns the slightest blemish There will be bo ho M allwood nilwood bridged on tho the entire line only ally the l 1 heat t bridge Iron manufactured by the American Bridge company of Pittsburg In ac II accordance with the tho plans and anti specifications of at tho the railway campan engl peril hers belli belag used Mo Most MOlt t of at the Iron for tor the tits bridges cs between Los 10 Angle Angeles and Is now noun no on hand hund and ready to be erected Chief of ot these lies bridges Is l the time one across the San SOli Gabriel river consisting of ot three spans two of at sixty two feet each and one of feet ex ox exclusive of ot approaches Iw steel for this thin bridge will be erected as all soon noon as the truck track Is laid l as nil far east enit as at the river Krom Irom nn on Associated Press dispatch tom Los LOB Anoles Angeles last Thursday It was learned Unit that the large cement c and Iron Iroll Ironbridge bridge nt ut Itlo Hondo line has been com corn completed rioted and that tho time track has b been bien en laid bald over It The rime toad road hat has been grail grad graded 81 ll ed to c to Pomona and on other construction work Is being hurried as fast as pin pee elble ROLLING BOLLINO STOCK It the tho track Is of ot the time best bost the same applies II to the time rolling stock that has hasteen teen Leon ordered by IJ th the company In ad nd addition to those which have been al aI randy rendy received the time Pullman company compan Is III a n number of big bl box hox and lInt Hat Hattar tar tarp each with pounds capacity Sixteen oars cant Wore were last week and outside out of these the tho roll roil rolling rollIng ing lug stock that iA corning III Includes some somo cf of the Ih finest t r coa coaches rhea over ever r seen ell on a II western road rond The new now loco locomotives locomotives motives I ordered several of which have havo already been delivered and are uru now In service are lire of ot the Now New York Central type and for tor size and power equal anything In time the line lino of motive power In Inthe Inthe the time eit WITHOUT A BOND BONDAll Alt All A 11 this has emu beer beeri accomplished with without without without out the Issuing I of at a 1 single bonda feat toot heretofore unheard of In the time annals ot of construction of or a 1 rAilroad In Ameri Anori America ca tA Financier have hate h Inquired l for tor bonds but lu t find that time tho promoters of ot the road IIII are nothing to anyone n on but every ever time there then ta II an assessment nt th they y RO IO down Into their pockets pay their pro raw rata cheerfully and to ute use u the common expression llon say IA nothing but mw caw wood Six million millions In ht cold cash ha has already been expended or one fourth of the IIII original estimate of at the cost coat of the road mad end and the time rest will be forthcoming as nl soon noon a all as It Is le required II The San Pedro ledro Is I also 10 the possessor r rA A Ad r t f t tJ li 1 I r 1 m t H 1 5 Tik AT n 1 of or n a frontage or of about Iii 4 on nn the inner I I In hl I time the fare of or what Itu nu been 1 and oM what It is to ht be b Senator and hi hll e t future before time till Sam II Ik ru UOK ta M K f A Unit asit take Lake road In isdn An II I 7 one j I TAR SITUATION U It noes n II without laying the ro roI L LI I not to 10 1 I be built buill fps i I ui ell eastern outlet for tor Its lit il ti tm lle n 8 r lt from time to time ante with M hh Tid Tiding MIng ing ri ai nt at un mm ii mU t tl S VM 16 the tho t tt in III Hue tUI s but to date bud lint ho he has kept Ills hit Own L IfAn tf 11 I time the anxiety by h th J n to tt e 1 lt ia k ALn n n rt W tho time pmt ot of tho limo San HUll PadrO Pili It It In Is cv d I chant dant that there Is le urt 11 nr tween the two tab big In III time the meantime dame daino rumor hath It that an 1111 agreement has hm b beun un renchal 1 between the tho Gould Interests and the tha I Hill VIII faction by b which time the t two o will wm operate In conjunction against Kalil rJ man and that by b moans lion II 9 of or the tha ton or some other connection oust I t of Denver Dener the Gould lines will be l a route which with their Ml PaOl rt lil lilI I do lie toad and nud connections would enable onalle them to control the th situation In the southern and middle part cart of at time the west western t tern ern railroad territory while Hill tho the Great Not them and Northern Pool Pad fib fio and connections would bo ho muster bf the situation there Between the two tWp with the Union Pacific dij spite the tremendous expenditure made mad on ors that road rond during the tho post pont year 0 pr r Improvements and tho time to bo lie expended this year eur would still be at atthe the tho mercy meroy ot of two transcontinental dic dle dictators dictators tn torB HOLD D THIS f ID KEY Whatever happens Senator Clark mid nl l his associates have havo the thley key to the situ situation sl II ti allon which nothing short of or a n 1 com eoin combination between J J Hill HIli H la H II Hr riman and George J Gould Could could uP It With such huge traffic troPle plums plants at It stake cu 1 aa as a are to be tie plucked In time the Oriental trade and the mineral and ond agricultural products product of the west a n combination oC or orthe the three powers will never nelor be bo anything nn but n II Utopian dream A combination would be Illegal among competing lines linos but hut that feature would not lot be such a n H a u would b be the 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