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Show uo ' IMPROVEMENTS ON SALT LAKE ROUTE Los Angeles, Cal Aug. 27. "We have now C.000 feet of Improved and established wharf frontage at San Pedro," said Richard C Kerens, American ambassador to Austria and director of the Salt Lake railroad, who is on a tour of Inspection of the road with his son Vincent, and David Keith of Salt Lake. The party made nn exhaustive inspection in-spection of the harbor with relation to the Salt Lake railroad today and afterward were closeted at the local Salt Lake offices here for seeral hours with active officials of the road. After his conference Mr. Kerens said: "Where we hare 3,000 feet of wharfage today, by tho time the Panama canal Is opened for traffic we shall have four miles. Four solid miles of wharfage means that we can take care of all tho business that the road can get. Wo arc preparing pre-paring for big things all along the Salt Lake road and -vrhen the traffic is rcadv wo will he ready lo handle It. "Improvements on the property of the Salt Lake rpad will be pushed as fast as the work can possibly be dono, and while the Improvements that we have already planned will be far-reaching, I do not wish to discuss dis-cuss them now. Thoy should come from tho construction department of tho road and not from me." Frpm other members of the party It was learned that Mr. Kerens was particularly Interested In developments develop-ments In Nevada, and indicated that much new trackage will be laid between be-tween Los Angeles and Salt Lalte, sending out spurs from the main line to numerouB mining and agrlcul- itural districts not yet open to the traffic facilities offered by railroads. The Kerens party wont by da-light da-light ocr the new high line running through the Meadow Valley wash and also Inspected the mining region re-gion about Goldficld and Tonopah, where, It is Intimated, considerable new construction work will be done in the next year and a half. The development of new mining values in some of the old territory will necessitate new construction. |