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Show A Railroad straw. One who thinks he knows calls attention to the fact that no work is being done on this end of the San Pedro road, none by the Short Line in Nevada, and declares that the explanation is that negotiations have been going on for months between the magnates of both roads for the former to sell out to the latter or for the latter to sell that part of its line running south of this city; that negotiations have progressed so far that the" two companies are growing in close accord; that the influence of both was asserted to push over the mayor's veto the spoliation of the property of the Rio Grande-on Fourth West street. We have never, reaspning from a business standpointrfelt at all sanguine that two roads hence to Los Angeles would be built, unlessH the new road pushed west from this city toH Deep Creek and thence southwestly throughH Nevada, because there is not much senti-H mentality in strict business, but we knowH that the original purpose of Mr. Clark wasH to build west to a suitable point in Nevada,B thence southerly through Nevada and thel southeast corner of California to Los An-H geles, while the main line would continueB west to San Francisco bay. Knowing howB resolute of purpose he is, our conviction is that the Short Line will eventually absorb the San Pedro, but at the same moment Senator Sen-ator Clark will become a dominant factor in the Harriman western roads. This comes only from trying to estimate what a man like Senator Clark would naturally natur-ally seek, anil it seems reasonable to conclude con-clude that he would prefer a mighty ownership owner-ship in fifteen thousand miles of completed road rather than the control of one thousand miles that are yet to be constructed and with the two or three years' worry necessary to construction. |