Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-03
1T Is COMING.
The Salt Lake and Los An
geles Road to be Built. .
THE NEW TOURISTS RATE.
The Commissioner of Navigation
Wants the Existing Laws
Amended.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
SAN Francisco, January 2.-The
Examiner has an interview with Alex
ander Badlam, one OF the party just
returned from Washington and New
York, where they had been to confer
with number Of capitalists concern
ing the building OF the proposed Salt
Lake and Los Angeles railroad. Mr..
Badlam says: 81 can state definitely
that the new railroad from Salt Lake
City right into Los Angeles is now an
assured fact. 1t Is not going to be a
continuation OF the Utah Central rail-
road that runs from Provo City, on
the Denver and Rio Grande road, into
Southwestern Utah. 1t will be an in
dependent line. In general way, it
can be said that it will run from Salt
Lake City west along the south
ern shore of the Great Salt Lake,
and then southwest in Utah very
close to the Nevada State line,
for 4 considerable distance. The Me-
vada State line will then be crossed
and the line will run southwest
through Nevada to the South Meadow
valley range. On entering California
the Calico mining district will be
pierced and the Atlantic and Pacific
road will DO crossed at Barstow.
From that point the line will continue
southwest Through the Arroyo Seco
cation back Of Pasadena and thence
through the latter town to Los Ange-
les The whole length of the road
will be GAL miles. At a point north
Of the Calico mining district a branch
will be built to Mojave, which will
make the distance from Salt Lake to
Mojave 541 miles.
We first went to Washington to see
about getting an act passed by Con.
gress granting us permission to build
through the Indian reservation in
Nevada. and he says that there will
be no difficulty on that score. On
going to New York we had several
conferences with gentlemen, amongst
whom were D. o. Mills, Charles
Francis Adams, @. p. Huntington,
Sydney Dillon, Senator Stanford and
others. Charles 8 Roser laid before
them detailed account of his trip
over the country through which the
line is to run, giving estimates OF cost
Of building it by four different routes.
1t was shown that this project would
lessen the present railroad distance
between Southern California and
Chicago and New York 900 miles.
This is o great feature of the under
taking. From Southern California
1000 carloads of fresh fruits are
shipped every year, and by going
over the proposed road the trip will
be lessened a day and half to the
eastern cities. This was one of the
great arguments that met with favor.
Then by means of q branch line to
Mojaye, the time to and from San
Francisco is lessened by two hours
from the Central or Southern Pacific.
Professor Newberry also showed in
his report, that there are coal fields in
Southern Utah that are as fine in
quality as that of the Pennsylvania
mines. The coal fields probably ex-
tend over 80 900 acres OF land, and
many veins of coal are from eleven to
fourteen feet in thickness. AS
to the mining characteristics OF
the country south of Tintic,
Utah, Major A. B. Litchfeld
presented data showing that from
two to three thousand tons Of rich
ore could be taken from the mines
along the line to the smelling works
at Salt Lake City every year. Lastly,
the information was given that $50
miles of graded roadbsd south of Salt
Lake City, as completed by a former
company, has come into our posses
sion. The project is favorably thought
Of, and enough Eastern capital is
guaranteed to build the road, the cost
of which will probably not exceed
SIS, 900, 900. Neither the Southern
Pacific nor any other existing railroad
has anything to do with the scheme.