| Show ANOTHER LINE TO THE chast western pacific is now in operation freight will be accepted accept d after dec passenger traffic to begin in the spring the first train oer the western pacific arrived in salt lake cit frum from san francisco on weaned Wed nedy aa after fter noon at 1 3 ind and marks one of the mot moot important events in the history of utah the opening of a new anns continental railroad connecting this city with the pacific ocean on the train were charles 11 I 1 s first ice president from the western pacific and active heid head of the road under president T jeffery C M levy second vice president and general manager aiho ho lately to the western pacific from the rn pacific as head of the operating dep V G bouc bojuc chief engineer under whom the line has been built built T J wyche engineer in charge of the eastern di division ision J F evans audit or 0 of the e new ioa road and an several other officials we have hae L aae no appointments whatever vice president sch sai sale licks soon after his armal wednesday da no one will bi b named till we get ger bick back to sin san fr incisco perhaps per cups not of till the middle or latter pirt part p of thi this month all reports published or are without any foundation tion what ti tie the e new road will be open for fleight traffic about december 1 if we have good luck and before the end of this bear ear in any ease cafe rhe fhe rails are all connected of course or our train could not hae got through but about eight miles of track re maint to te lc ballasted ballested bal lasted and put in final shape it was learned from other sources that the We western tern pacific has a track lung butic j salt lake and the oakland pier at ban francis franciso o compared to the southern pacific mileage of miles this makes the western pacific line miles longer but it is understood that this greater distance is more than equalized by the low grade and slight curves on the new line it is understood that the western pacific will meet any time to san francisco that the present fastest train the Oe aerland rland limited on the southern pacific cares to attempt at present the overland limited makes the run in seven hours aej forty five minutes from salt like lake to oakland Oi kland an acreage time of thirty three and a fraction miles an hour if the alst western pacific makes the run at an of forty milet miles an hour and local officials say that this can easily be done then the present time between I 1 here and san francisco may be cut down nominally four hours or even more speaking of the importance of the opening of the new road a local railroad man who has the railroad history of utah at his fingers ends and who knows all the ins and outs of various lines dating back for many years said the importance of the arrival of this train wednesday cannot be over estimated it is an enoch in the great story of transportation I 1 11 I 1 the great west a story that dats from the cari birb emigrations emig rations and moving onward through stirring chapters the rush arr kold gold in 49 the pony express the overland tige stage coach the vast wagon trains moving from the Afi missouri and then the overland telegraph and the first through line of railroad and all these chapters were told in hut but a quarter of a century ending in 1869 it is of interest to add in connection with the foregoing historical reference that the western pacific in many respects follows the line of early emigration the pony express the stage and the first through wire hire to the pacific and if the occupants of the special wednesday had carefully looked to the south as aa they passed garfield they could have discerned an old rock house thit that played its part in the pioneer das dabs of transportation through that section |
