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Show LOS ANGELES ROAD " f 3 -WLL EE BUILT : SAN PEDRO, LOS-ANGELES & SALT LAKE ROAD BUYS PART OF SHORT LINE. -, . "' All the tines; and Kqulpment of the Com-. : pttnj 80 nth of Salt Lake, Including "til ' Iamlogton .Cot-off, Purchased by. Senator Clark aud Hig Assool- I a tea Line from Salt Lake to Lo Angeles to be Pushed to Completion. J According to the latest reports, it . now seems an assured fact that Salt Lake City and Los Angeles will be connected by rail in a short time, by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake line, the road which is backed by Senator Clark of Montana and associates. as-sociates. The Salt Lake . Tribune of Sunday prints the following special telegram regarding the matter: New York, April 18. Senator W. A. Clark states that he ' has pur-, chased 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 Nevada, Ne-vada, including Leamington cut-off, -and has obtained a 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 direcr tors' meetings may be held and contracts con-tracts approved. Grading and track laying will be commenced at Daggett, California, and the road will soon; bp , . extended from Calientes through Nevada. Ne-vada. From Leamington to Calientes the roadbed will be improved and re-laid re-laid with seventy-five-pound rails. The western terminus of the road is now being operated from San Pedro harbor har-bor to Ontario, and will soon be com-j com-j pleted and in operation as far as j Riverside. "He hopes to have the road completed in about two years. .A. UNDmwnnn (Private Secretary to William A. Clark.) This will indeed prove good news to' the people of Utah, as the San Pedro system will enter a territory which 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 be" controlled absolutely and owned by its own officers, and all railroad lines" will have access, to its facilities on equal terms. This insures Salt Lake City against any combination which will preclude railroad rivalry or fixed arbitrary rates to the Pacific slope. " The diiectors of the road ate: ,V. A. Clark, president; R. C. Kerens, J. Ross Clark, T. E. Gibbon, T. F. Miller, F. K. Rule, W, S. McCornick, Thomas Kearns, Reed Smoot,. E. W. Clark, Perry S. Heath, Ross-W. Smith, a The Tribune publishes an interview inter-view with Senator Kearns, in which he says, in part: "I believe that trains. will be running . between Salt' Lake and Los Angeles over the com- , pleted line within eighteen months from today. The San Pedro, Los Angeles An-geles & Salt Lake Railroad company has now available on call $25,000,000 In cash for the completion of the main line, branches and spurs. There is no more financiering to be done, 'and there will be no more delay in pushing push-ing the completion of the work. As soon as Senator W. A. Clark arrives in Salt Lake City" whiejj I. expect will be within the next twb or three weekes, the formal transfer or the 444 miles or '' the Oregon Short Line property south of Sak;-Lake City will be formally made, and an experienced railroad. Manager will take charge of the oper atlons of the line and all of its interests inter-ests at this end, although the transfer by completion of negotiation and signature" sig-nature" to contracts has been made on paper already in New York. Too much" credit cannot be given to Senator William Wil-liam A. Clark of Montana for the faithful faith-ful manner in which he has carried out every promise made to the citi- ' zens of Salt Lake City in the autumn of 1900. when ie promised that this line would be constructed and that it would be an open gateway between the capital of Utah and southern Cal- ' lfornia." |
