| Show LOS ANGELES ROAD TOLL WILL BE BUILT SAN AN PEDRO LOS ANGELES SALT LAKE ROAD BUYS PART OF SHORT LINE all the lines and equipment of the com amny sooth south of salt lake c the ali eton cut off air rural use I 1 by senator clark and life 1 attel tea line from tram salt lake to los angeles effle to be pushed to completion according to the latest reports it now seems an assured fact that salt lake city and los angeles will toe bar connected by rail tall in a short time by the san pedro los angeles and salt lake line the road which is backed by senator dark clark ot of montana and as rocia collates co clates tes the salt lake tribune of sunday prints the following special telegram regarding the matter new york april 18 senator W A dark clark states that he ahas has purchased for the san pedro los angeles and salt lake railroad company all lines and equipment of oregon short line company lying south of salt lake in utah and ne vada including leamington leavington Lea cutoff cut off and has obtained a ninetynine ninety nine year lease on terminal facilities in salt lake city in conjunction with oregon short line the property will be transferred as soon as necessary alree tors meetings may be held and contracts approved grading and track fr laying will be commenced at daggett california and the road will soon be extended from Cal lentes through nevada prom from leamington leavington Lea to the roadbed will be improved and re laid with seventy five pound rails the western terminus of the road Is 1 now being operated froni from san pedro bar bor to ontario and will eoon soon be corn com plated and in operation as tar far as riverside he ile hopes to bays the road completed in about two years A UND aiWOOD private secretary to william A clark this will indeed prove good news to t the people of utah as the san pedro system will enter a chith has long looked forward to the time when they might have proper railway facilities the san pedro system will be an independent line it will bo be f controlled absolu absolutely tel y and owned ay I 1 y its own ow n officers and all railroad line will have access to its facilities on equal terms this insures salt lak laka city against any combination which will preclude railroad rivalry or fixed arbitrary rates to tiie lie pacific slope the d factors lectors of the road ae we IV X dark clark president R C I kerens erens J rosa dark clark T E gibbon T r miller r I 1 rulo rule W S mccornick thomas lo 10 kearns reed smoot E V W clark perry S heath ross W smith the tribune publishes an inter view with senator kearns in ho he says in part I 1 believe that trains will be running between salt lake and los angeles over the corn com pled line within eighteen months from today the san pedro los an geles salt lake railroad company has now available on call 25 in cash tor for the completion of the mala line branches and spurs there is no idore finan ciering to be done and there will be no more delay in husn ing the completion of the work As soon scon as senator W A dark clark arrives in salt lake city which h I 1 expect will be within the next two or three weeks the formal transfer of the miles of the oregon short line property south of salt lake city will be formally made an aul 1 an experienced railroad manager will take charge of the oper allons of the line and all of its inter ests at this end although the transfer by completion of negotiation and sig nature to contracts has been made on paper already in new york too much credit cannot be given to senator wll wil liam nam A dark clark of montana for the faith ful manner in which he has carried out every promise made to the citi zes ot of salt lake city in the autumn of 1900 when he promised that this line would be constructed and that it would be an open gateway between the capital of utah and southern cal |
