Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-12
A SURE THING.
The Connection With Salt
Lake City Goes.
THE ENGINEERS FINALLY TALK.
They Visit RedOndo-The Part That
Thriving Port is to Play in
the Scheme.


the Scheme.
The visit Of V. G. Bogue, the Chief
Engineer of the Union Pacific, and II.
III. Mccartney, the Resident Engineer
at Salt Lake City, to Los Angeles last
week, turns out to have involved mat
ters of great moment to this city and
section. There need be no more doubts
and questionings about the purpose Of
the Union Pacific to work its way
through to the Coast in this direc.
ton. A line connecting Milford and
Barstow is now in process of con.
struction, and will probably be COM
pleted within little over a year, GER
tainly by two years. The track Of the
Santa Fe will be used for time for con-
nection with this city and the coast and
with San Diego, but the ultimate plan Of
the road is line Of its own to all of these
points
In conversation with HERALD re-
porter last Saturday evening, Mr.. Nc
Cartpey said in q very vague way that he
had ''come in over the Atlantic and Pa
cifc"-he did not say from where-and
that he had unexpectedly met with Mr..
Bogue in San Diego, and that the two of
them had come to Los Angeles on some
private business. He admitted when the
fact was put to him, that Mr.. Bogue had
come down from Milford to Barstow In a
wagon, but he spoke of himself in way
to leave the impression that he himself
had come by rail.
1t now comes out that both the gentle
men came down to Barstow by wagon
from Milford over the route which has
besn surveyed. They paid brief visit
to San Diego and gotinto this city Friday.
The first man they hunted up was George
Wright, the engineer, who, it is known,
has been for some time in the employ of
the Union Pacific making surveys on
Rattlesnake island and between this city
and the coast. The two visitors went to
the Hollenbeck and took rooms there,
but declined to register, and made it very
plain thai they did not care to meet any
newspaper men. Several of the frater-
nifty were ON their track, how
ever, and during the two days
of their stay here very
entertaining game Of hide-and seek was
played. Mccartney was finally cor
nered and put through an interview
which was sort of q stand-of. He said
nothing, but his way Of saying it made
ii perfectly plain that something big lay
back Of his affable silence.
Mr.. Bogue, it appears, is just one de-
gree worse than Mr.. Mccartney. The
latter talks, but does not say anything;
the former does not even talk. He is
known over the Union Pacific line under
the sobriquet Of "Dismal Jenny" for
the reason that he never smiles and sell
dom speaks All efforts to get anything
ont of him proved unavailing.
Saturday afternoon and most OF Sunday
the engineers passed at Redondo Beach.
Mr.. Bogue is personal friend Of Cap
tains Aims worth and Thompson, and had
he said anything about his visit there,
reason. The two spent good deal
of time inspecting the harbor and gain
ing information about The possibilities
of its development. On Sunday the party
took tug, and after cruising around in
the waters of the Redondo harbor, they
went around Point Firmin into San Pc
dro, and back to Los Angeles by the
Southern Pacific. Sunday night they
went north to San Francisco.
In conversation with several promi.
nent railway men of this city Mr.. Bogue
stated very clearly how the case stood.
The Union Pacific is backing the consoli-
dated roads which are building the ex-
tension from Milford, and it proposes to
put the work right through. Milford is
on the Utah Central, 225 miles south by
west from Salt Lake City. The extern
sion has been surveyed and cross-sec-
toned beyond Piochs, in Nevada, to
distance Of about $50 miles. There are
no difficulties of any serious sort to be
overcome in the construction, and there
is no reason why the work should
not proceed rapidly. The road
will bring up either at Bsrstow
or at Daggett The route through South
ern California has not been planned as
yet. 1t is the purpose of the company to
60 to San Diego and also through Los
Angeles to Redondo. This means that
the Union Pacific plans to work with
Messrs. Ainsworth and Thompson in the
development of this beautiful seaport,
and that ultimately it will prove to be
one of the most hourishing of the ports of
Southern California.
1t will be noticed that the scheme as
outlined necessitstes the use, for a time,
at least, OF the Santa Fs track. 1t is un-
derstocd that some time ago a contract
was framed and signed by the proper
representatives of the two roads, the
Union Pacific and the Santa Fe, for the
use of certain sections of the Southern
California track by the Union Pacific
line.
The information with regard to Re-
dondo comes from an absolutely reliable
source. 1t is certain that it is a part of
the present plan to establish the harbor
outlet for the road at Redondo Beach.
Whether an independent line will be
built or the narrow gauge road changed
to broad one, is not known, and indeed
it may be questioned whether matters of
this sort have been settled at all. An
immense element of chance appears in
all railway building, and opportunity
rather than deliberate intention is fire.
quently the potent factor that brings
things one way rather than another.
The fact that 1t WAS the Union Pacific
which was backing the consolidated
roads in their effort to extend the Utah
Central was developed at the beginning
of the year when the franchise for the
Salt Lake and Los Angeles line was
signed by Mayor Bryson 1t will be re-
membered that he refused to give his
signature to the franchise TOR a road
throuOh the city along the yivar hank