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Show TO COAST Clark Buys Part! of Short Line New York. April .18 Senator W. A. Clark states that he has purchased for Han Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Like Railroad company all lines and equipment of OregonShortLinecompany ly-I ly-I ing south of Salt Lake i nUtah and 1 Nevada, including Leamington ! cut off, and has obtained a ninety- nine year lease on terminal facilities facil-ities in Salt Lake City in con junc- , tion with Oregon Short Line. ( The property will be transferred . as soon' as directors' meetings may be held and contracts ap proved. Gradingand tract laying will be commenced at Daggett, California, and the road will soon 'be extended from Cahentes through Nevada. From Leaming-;ton Leaming-;ton t ) Calientes the road bed will 'be irap-OTo and relaid with, 'seventv-five pound rails. The) i western terminus of the road is I 'now bein operated from Leam-( lingtonto Ontario and wi'l soon Ibe completed and in operation as I far as Riverside. He hopes to j have the rru comr , te-in .about 'two years. ! A. Underwood, (Private Secretary Secre-tary to William A. Clark.) |