The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-08
IT'S AN ASSURED FACT.
Alex. Badlam On the Salt
Lake & Los Angeles.
THE ROAD TO COST MILLIONS.
Eastern Capitalists to Put Up the
Money-Advantsges OF the
New Route.

So much has been said about the
building of road from Salt Lake City
to Los Angeles, that it is relief at last
to be able to give some tangible data
about the project. Two weeks ago
Alexander Badlam, Colonel Isaac
Trumbo and Il. R. Houghton went
east, with the ostensible object of pre-
senting the feasibleand practical claims
of the undertaking to number of cap
italists. They went to Washington and
New York, aud are now back home
| from the extended trip.
Alexander Badlam and Colonel
Trumbo were seen at the Palace Hotel
Yesterday afternoon. and by persist
ent canrse of questioning some infor
nation was obtained about the railroad
enterprise.
Said Mr.. Badlam: 81 can state def
| niteiy that new railroad from kalt
Lake City right into Los>Angeles is now
al assured fact. It's not going to be
continuation OF the Utah Central Rail-
way, that runs from Provo City on the
Denver u BIO Grande road TO San
francisco in Southwestern Utah. 1t
will be an independent line. In gen.
eralway it can be said that it will run
from Salt Lake City west, along the
shore Of the Great Salt Lake, and then
sodlh vest in Utah, very close to the
Nevada State line, for considerable
distance. The Nevada State line will
then be. crossed, and the line will run
southwest through Nevada to the south
Of the Meadow Valley range. Ga enter
lag California the Calico mining district
WI be pierced, and the Atlantic d Pa
olfic road will DE crossed at Bars Ow.
FROM that point the line will continue
south west through the Arroyo Seco
Canyon, back OF Pasadena and thence
| through the latter town TO Los Angeles.
The whole length of the road will be
CAL miles. at a point north of the
Calico mining district branch will be
built over the Mojave, which will make
| the distance from Salt Lake City to
| Moiave 54l miles"
"Whoi. behind the enterprise?"
"a sufficient amount OF eastern capt.
tai is guaranteed to build the road. and
l cannot say any more than that just
now Wall till all the papers are signed,
which will BIZ in few days" ~
who were some of the gentlemen
| you saw in the east" s.t.a
I'VE held conversations with ID. 0
Mills, Charles Francis Adams. G. Z.
Huntington. Sidney Dillon, Senator
Stanford and Others"
| And are some of the gentlemen in
favor of the pro]ect?"
Yes and others that l have not
named" u
HAS the Southern Pacific Company
any thing TO do with the scheme?'
mo; nor has any other existing rail-
road company" ~
"What is the roai going to cost?"
mot over $lS 0t0, Co.,"
And what arguments did you pre-
sent to.the capitalists you called Oh TO
interest themselves in the undertake
ing?" .sbaal go
well. will tell you something about
our trip. We first went to Washington
| to see about getting an act passed by
Congress granting permission to build
| through an Indian reservation in
Nevada. Senator Stewart is to take
charge of that matter, and he says
| there will be no difficulty on that score
| On going to New York we had several
conferences with probably ten gentle
| men, some of whom l have named.
Charles II. Rose laid before them de-
tailed account of his trip over the
luntry through which the line 10 To
| iun, giving estimates of the cost OF
| buiiuing by four different routes. 1t
was shown that this project would les
son the present railroad distance be-
tween Sc uthern California and Chicago
! and New York 800 miles. This is q
| great feature of the undertaking. Frou.
! Southern Callfornia 4 600 carloads OF
| fresAiruits are shipped every ye r, and
| by going over the proposed road the
trip will be lessened day and half to
the eastern cities. This was one great
argument that met WITH favor. Then
by means of the brau3n line to Mojave
the time to and frsIn San Francisco is
lessened by tive hours from that Of the
Central or Southern Pacific"
Professor Newberry also showed in
a rsport tuat there is coal tield.ln
south western Utah that is as fine in
quality as that of the Pennsylvania
mines. The coal field probably extends
I. over $1,000 acres of land, and many OF
the veins of coal are from eleven to four
lteen feet in thickness. AS to the min.
ing characteristics of the country
William FL. Smith, of Tintic, U. r., and
Major A. B. Lltchdeld presented data
showing that from 1000 to 5000 ton. OF
ricn ore could he taken from the mines
along the line To the smelling; works ri
Salt Lake City every Year. Lastly, III
formation was given that the $50 miles
of graded road-bed south OF Salt LAKE
City, a. completed by former com
pany has come into our possession :
San Francisco Examiner, January Sd.