| Show PACIFIC SHORT mr begus talks fal on hie matter anil the if hie w mr J D negus cretaro cre tary of lie pacific short line arrived in ogden sunday night direct from sioux city on he went to bah lake and came back the game evening bat was unable to give llie ci THE Dinn an interview Ye arlay morning lie aaen went to the capital but ic at 10 SO last evening A of TUB was at alie debit and obtained an interview spending an hour io the comfortable occupied by sir negus at the hotel V hen seated lie ad well now wha do you want in answer to the question the reporter quoted from an paper iha following there is a rumor on the streets that the pacific bhart line is a failure ard asked what lie biad to my to ill it well there is no need of refuting euch as aba the newspapers will indulge in the of rumors of all kinds and it dud not us in the least we know what we ac doing and we go about it a all other raier ads do we know the amount of labor it takes to fix up the thousand and one things that present for wr and for our consideration As far a that is the work will go right ahead let the rumors bo what they may while we have been absent froni this part of the people have formed an idea eliat wo have d ne nothing by the time they bad to pay out uie amounts eliat we have bad to expend since I 1 v as here last they would not think themselves nicotine nic ntine the accusation that nothing has been done and that we had been lying idle the fact 19 that we have brent over a month in the of uie various lines binco hero last we have had five horpi of engineers in alie fild ander thu direct supervision of mr C K bannister Uan nister and chiy have labored assida uly and continuously for the a eliat they have made to alio line from here through canyon to feour in wyoming has ben fini theil and all that 13 now necessary before actual work helona on iliin end is ahat ir clarke chief cf atje roa 1 line and it aben the letting of contracts tor euch work as can be dune during the winter ill take pla e we d i not v ish to make any in tins matter we have inada none BO far a d dont propose that e shall in the future for that haason it lias lakan moie time than tha public have been willing to allow DS as they have been clamonce clamon cg for he commencement of vork liless their soula ae have been at work we a t lay a I 1 lie any i here in this mo in ain country nd safety cun and che anesa why it to ik the running of he lines on the ie in before the line on v kiich the contra ts were let was decided n since then oilier lines hae bien run oer that part of the but no bralo giai len faund better than the one we chaee T at is due ti the asro and the time we kok on ng oo 00 tt c line wo are c nce iving applications rom towns to switch off and corae way and they offer na lara bonu es to do BO it is to be decided ia best for lie roid ro id and you can it that it is no t aay matter to come to a conclusion in that regard when it to mater al there ia a thousand things to consider in its and it the people khov anything about it they 1 n t be BO hasty in their as to v bother the Is a failure or not it is a big ali ng to build a railroad of flie this will be and to build it in alia right way it ia no easy matter to ra ga for 1000 filoi of road to light the north western in llie roea time to overcome the coubles roubles rou bles we taie had at the bridge to get the right of way uli the country we puts to settle up ery little matter along it is only a month agi that we the i ight 0 way through wyoming we have not secured it in let and only as far as va have gone in nebraska just to give you a ontur it what w liac diac will refer ion to ilia of selecting tie alie red wood tie ia baid to bf tha m fit durable we must take into tint the rail will sink into iaia lie quicker than in any other and when it down two or three inches the tie laue lesi t r how long it will wi alio llio of the dampness of the soil the oregon cr is rood but we can get no hewn ties ot that it is all sawed and unless cut wibb a saw it is lett in ridges chii it immediately detata tl e wood rotting ahn there me bretl UCB to select from ve mut mu t the mature of the e pits p it s th the die miral of abe foil and the ire tit would have af on each amney of tie the gs in M donld not do ir ns lie re thib ia bat one of ilia many matters brou plit up for careful consideration hut it tends to chow alie amount of ork that has to be done before con procip can be lt and while tl c it ople are clai noring t r some visible alio of n ork lint along all right aid doing all we van in the of pushing the roi I 1 i h conditions condi tiona and we arc judiciously blat abacut lie vork on the other edl of oh eliat ia going along as nicely we could u aih vei t aye now eaty milea carral nj completed anil rainy fur ii tits T 8 have been lurched pur ched and e are chipping rom ten to kecty aho car lonia lo nia ue tilo aery lay busaid oak liea are no tully miles of atiee tl road all the swit liw frogs aal spikes for alio emelity minlea aru on abe grade the heen hiu glit and will he shipped wl afta are ready to benin track laying ao that ne ill not have to and reload but push alm iron right to tin rout M ltv iny it we to ift forty fio kailei inora ct and arg thia fall BO tt at kiy Chnat maa day WB will hac mileson aud trains running oa it the route on thia cod liaa lately aten run to south aass is in every reap ct and the line can be built along it at a cost wa than the estimate macinn OK of of dollars all by our having taken OUT aline in the matter As eoon as the track laying on the other end has been com eo that it will not need the cara and attention that it does now I 1 the labor of deciding what work can I 1 be done on ibis end during the acm ing will bario aart a lew daye i after that we will advertise fur bid B on portions sir ia at in new york where he fal ciliated that the which took lam there would only keep him two days lie will then return to sioux city aliee he will meet mr clarke and corno out it ia tint lie will be here ten day a the work is boink aloag ai fast as we can judiciously push it aad you cm eay that if any one thinks that the road mont be built and that the scheme ie a failure they are laboring under a hallucination ci of ahe thank n air negus the information which the public have BO long waited alie reporter withdrew 0 o tell of THE the result |
