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Show 'WESTERN.-PAdFIC - ' SPECIAL TRAIN ' , Eastern Newspaper Representatives, Including the Standard Editor in-Chief Are in the Party Long Stretches of Road in Excel- , lent Condition Fine Depot at Elko, Nevada. The following messnge has been rc-cched rc-cched from the edltor-ln-chlef of this paper on rule to Sau Francisco on the first westbound .Missouri Pacific train: (Special to tho Standard ) On Board Western Pacific Special, An?. 22 The first train over ihe Western Pacific west-hound, carrying sixty persons, a majority the representatives repre-sentatives of newspapers from Chicago Chi-cago to San Francisco, Including a correspondent of the Standard left Salt Iake at 7 o'clock Saturday morning morn-ing and arrived at this point 3'jo miles west, at 9:30 o'clock this morning. At Elko tho greater part of the population pop-ulation of 2,000 were at tho depot to welcome the train, and tender their good will and promise their future patronage pat-ronage to the new road. The newspaper news-paper men gave yells for I.omax and tho Western Pacific and. with cheering, cheer-ing, continued on their Journey. From Salt Lake to Wlnnomucea i there Is virtually only one town on ! the Western .Pacific, and that is Elko, although Wells Is skirted on the south and Paliaado is within hailing distance dis-tance from the south bank of the Humboldt We passed one fruit train of twelvo cars Just west of Wendover, which is the only castbound train we have seen today There are six work trains with largo gancs of foreigners improving the roadbed within 200 miles of Salt Iake and at the point where tho Western Pacific crosses the south arm of Great Salt Lake a hundred or tuore men aud two work trains are dumping jtreat boulders and making the road storm-proof. At present the rails are at least four feet above the surface of the lake, and beyond all Immediate danger. Long stretches of the road are In excellent condition, laid with heavy rails and so thoroughly ballasted as to be freo from dust, but there are equally long distances which will require re-quire considerable Improving. This was to have been expected u.s the line Is In Its luiancy and is now undergoing undergo-ing those changes. By this time next year the Western Pacific, over tho 300 miles traveled today, should compare com-pare favorably with the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, a rond which has required years to bring up to Its present standaid of excellence. At noon the special passed over the Inexhaustible salt beds Just cast of Wendover and 113 miles west of Salt Iako. The sight was Inspiring. At one time we were In the middle of an ocean the surface of which was an Immaculate white, the edges fringed with Islands placed there by the most wonderfully fascluatlng mirage I have ever viewed Wendover is a new city of some 50 or 60 Inhabitants. Ogdenitea have heard the sheepmen talk of the place as the headquarters of their herds on tho winter range The thing that struck me as out of the ordinary was the presence of a saloon, back of which were empty barrels and bottles In carload lots. Tho saloon building is a substantial structure while tho city Itself Is made up of shacks with the exception of the depot and other build IriL-s erected by tho Western Pacific. Pa-cific. Thp new line is deserving of much favorable comment on Its depots. The cne at Ilko would be an ornament to Ogden and If one equally as good Is erected on Twenty-fourth street by the Rio Grande when that road fulfills ful-fills Its promise to Ogden, there will bo cause for rejoicing Tomorrow we continue our. Journey, stopping at OrovlIIe, Cal.. 320 miles further west, and 205 miles northeast of San Francisco, for the nlht |
