Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-04
THE ROAD Is COMING
From Salt Lake to Los An
geles Before Long.
FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN
1t Moves All Along the Line Between
New York and the Angelic City
BY the Pacific Shores.
The Sioux City Times, of October 22d,


The cause for delay in the operation OF
constrnct;on of the Pacific Short Line
has heen removed, and operations in the
line originally planned will be resumed
At once. The delay was in the New
Work end. and while amounting to
nothing particularly, was the cause OF
much comment. The delayed payments
nv the New York financial hackers have
been made, and the money is now in the
hands of E. Ell. Stone, who represents
the Sioux City subscribers. Mr.. Stone
has levied another assessment on the
Sioux City subscription, and the same
has been paid.
The Pacific Short Line ia graded and
bridged between Sioux City and Plaln-
view, distance of l25 miles. rne wof9
of ironing this section will be commenced
At once by f. P. Reynolds & Co. This
firm was today awarded the contract 10
grade. bridge and iron the section De-
tween Plainview and O'Nell, distance
of forty.five miles. The company
wanted il specified in the contract that
all this work should be done by January
1st. but Mr.. Reynolds stated that that
wo,,ld be- e physical impossibility. The
work. however, will be completed as
A special to the Omaha Bee dated
Sioux City, October 22nd, alludes thus
to the delay:
The funds for the construction of the
second section of the Pacific Short Line,
from Plainview to O'Neill, Neb., have
been secured, and the work is now be-
ING prosecuted. The tracking OF the Sec
tion already graded and bridged from
Covington to Plainview is now just be-
ginning. The real cause of the two
months delay has been the death OF the
late Samuel L. M. Barlow, the million,
aire lawyer of New York, who was not
only himself heavy subscriber to the
Pacific Short Line, but also represented
a wealthy syndicate of New York and
German capitalists. He died after an
illness of only twenty-four hours, and
the very day of his death had been ap-
pointed for the formal transfer OF cash
to complete arrangements for the con-
struction of the second section OF the
road. So slowly do such matters move
in New York that it is only just now that
all the formalities, disjointed by Mr..
Barlow's death, have been completed.
It has been only an aggravating delay,
not q disruption of the plans OF the
syndicate back of the scheme, which has
not relaxed its purpose to build through
to Ogden, but which could not be hurried
along to keep pace with the western way
of doing things.
The Real Estate Record OF Los Angeles
city, on October 29th, had this significant
mortgage:
Los Angeles, Pasadena and Glendale
Railway Com pauy to Central Trust Com
psny, of New York-Road from Los An
geles to Glendale and all real estate
rights of way, franchises, etc. twenty
years, per cent. per annum; 5000, 600
The query is not unnatural: "Is there
any connection between the Sioux
City news aud this? 1t is well
known that Csptina Cross is con
structing a remarkably fine roac
from this city to Pasadena. The
grading is being done in the very bes
way. The bridging is on the most sub
stantial plans. The heaviest iron USED
in large trunk roads is being procured
The Grants, who have the contract, wher
they completed heir work on the Sants
Fe, refused to sell their mules, but turned
them out to pasture near Clearwater
They evidently think they may neeC
them near here before long, and they
know all there is to be known in this re
lation. Mr.. Cross will not say mucf
about who is backing bis deal, indeed
he generally denies that any one is. Blu
most of those who watch what he is do
ing have their own way of thinking, ant
many of them have already arrived a
their own conclusions. On October 26
Bishop Sharp, of Salt Lake, arrived hom'
from visit OF several weeks to Boston
The next day he said to the Salt Lax
Tribune, this:
SAT ONCE TO PIoCHB."
Mr.. Adams and the directors though
it advisable that there should be resi-
dent directors for each of the thre,
divisions of the Consolidated road. S
Bishop Sharp will be resident directo
for the Utah division but who will &C
for the Utah and Northern and the Ore
gon Short Line proper, is yet to be de
cided on. The directors voted to broat
gauge the line between Ogden and Poca
tello Immediately on the opening Q
spring.
The directors did decide to extend th
Utah division as soon as the construc
tion department could get the graders t,
work from Milford, ITO miles to Phoebe
and to make start on the Nevada Pa
cific division ninety miles southwest to
wards Barstow. This is a beginning O.
the active work, which will not be let NJ
until California is reached, for, az the
Bishop says, they can't afford to stop a,
200 miles with the stub end of the track
in the desert. They must 60 on. The
line between Milford and Phoebe has
been finally located, but beyond Phoebe
there are three surveyed lines to choose
from, and this will be done by Chief En-.
gineer Bogue and his assistant, who are
now en- route from Milford to Barstow by
blackboard express. The cost of con-
struction will be met by Consolidated
railroad bonds to be issued shortly, aud
Bishop Sharp thinks Piocha will be
reached by May next. For the 200 miles
ordered built the sixty-pound steel
rails have already been bought,
which insures starting the work without
delay. This means big thing for Salt
Lake, as it will be the center of COM
munication and depot for supplies, so
that as the Rio Grande Western con-
struction forces leave the rebuilt road they
can be shipped right over onto the Con
solidated road extension, and the de-
mand for supplies, which for six months
has made business go good here, will be
continued.
The central shops Of the Consolidated
system will be located in Salt Lake, and
as the Bishop says the Union Pacific
magnates in Boston are more and more
kindly disposed towards this city, there