Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-27
RAILROAD NEWS.
The Line to Milford Will
Soon Be Built.
ALL ARRANGEMENTS AADE
Interviews With Messrs. Tebbets,
Tenbroeck and w. r. Whits.
The Strike.

A HERALD reporter yesterday intsr-
viewed Mr.. ]. s. Tebbets, General Pas
senger and Ticket Agent Of the Union
Pacific, on the subject of the projected
Union Pacific extension to this city.
''Will 1t be built?" said Mr.. Tebbets
in response to the reporters interroga-
ton; "why certainly" and taking a
map from the desk before him, added
"And this is the way it will come"
He traced a line from Milford,
on the Utah Central. past Sulphur
Springs into Iron County. "Here" said
Mr. Tebbets eve will open up mineral
fields of untold wealth as the section
teens with coal and iron." Down past
Iron City the line was drawn and then
through Hebron, Pine Valley and over the
State line into Lincoln County, Nebraska
at Blackberry. Then past Cottonwoe1
and st. Joe into Indian Spring Valley,
and with westerly swing over the
Amargosa Valley the line entered Cali
fornia at a point near Dry Lake. Continu-
ing, the pencil skirted the south-easterly
corner Of the Amargosa River and past the
Bitter Spring and Sulphur Spring direct
TO Harper on the Atlantic and Pacific.
Here" said Mr.. Tebbets, "a junction
will be made, and the road will then run
directly into Los Angeles through the
best available pass"
"Why do you not start from Frisco 7"
asked the reporter.
because that town is on q plateau
l70O feet higher than the surrounding
country. The reason why we built that
road, l suppose you know. It was
to carry out the products OF the
famous Horn mine at Frisco,
which in its palmy days gave Us thou
sand dollars worth Of freight Q day.
But now we do not get q thousand dol
lars worth q month, and the directors
say that they might as well build on
into Los Angeles or else tear up the 243
miles Of track between Frisco and Salt
Lake, for the line does not certainly now
pay to operate alone. You can safely
say, therefore, that the line will be built,
and as an additional item you can mem
ton that the steel rails for it have been
ordered."
"It will be built then by the Union
Pacific 2" said the reporter.
SWELL, by the Utah Central" replied
Mr., Tebbets, (which, as it is one OF our
lines. is about the same thing"
1T will be splendid affair for this Sec
tion Of the country, for it will make
direct line to the East, and reduce the dis
tance between Council Bluffs and Los
Angeles to about the same as it ID be-
tween Kansas City and this place.
"When win work be commenced? 2"
asked the scribe.
when the first shovelful Of dirt will
be turned l cannot definitely say, but
know that the surveys have been all
made, and that everything is ready. You
see the Union Pacific is not inclined to
build very much until the fate Of the
-l1nthwaite bill is decided regarding
'erR} Indebtedness Of the road. Il
eeffrything turns out satisfactory then
edYu can rely on it that work
] fill be at once commenced as It will
hake money easier with us, and this
t<ill, OF course, influence the Utah Gem
tral. have been over the proposed
route by stage" concluded Mr.. Teb-
bets; sit will not be an expensive road
to construct, as there are very con-
venient natural passes through the
mountains, and according to the engin-
GERS, ninety feet to the mile will be the
heaviest grade on the entire line."
Mr.. Tebbets departed on last nights
train for his headquarters at Omaha.