, 1890-03-08
PACIFIC SHORT LINE.
Secretary of the New Wyoming
Railway in Town.
Building Out of Sioux City and to
Commence Soon at Ogden.
c. K. Bannister, Known Here, Talks
About the Long Line.

James d. Negus, secretary of the Pa
cifc Short Line Railway company, arrived
from Ogden yesterday and registered at
the Inter Ocean. The road he repre-.
sents is being built from Sioux City
across Nebraska and Wyoming to Ogden.
Construction is under way at the east
end. and contracts for 100 miles will soon
be executed. Nearly every big railway
corporation in the country has at some
time been mentioned as being behind the
Pacific Short Line, but those best in
formed believe it an independent project.
New York capitalists furnish the money.
In an interview at Sioux City recently C.
X. Bannister. now chief engineer of the
Short Line, but for a long time in Union
Pacific service here, was asked:
"What about the products of the terri
tory the line will traverse?"
He replied: THE very best of coal
fields, an unlimited supply of iron ore and
the very best in the country. and a route
directly through the Wyoming cattle
ranges and oil fields. The Wyoming
granite and sandstone. with railroad facili-
ties to encourage its development, will be
no inconsiderate source of revenue. So
far as local business is concerned, the
Short Line will develop that to the salts
faction of its stockholders.
"A short while ago the attorney of
the oil men of Wyoming called on the
Manhattan people of New York to in.
quire of the prospects of the Short Line
building to Wyoming. He represented
that he was prepared to guarantee to
the road an average daily output OF 900
barrels. We have been assured by a
California firm that uses 900 or 1000
tons Of Focal per day that we san have the
haul for them from the mines at Ogden
if the rates are what we say they will be.
Last year there we're thousands of head
of cattle transported from Texas to Wyo.
ming ranges. There isn't a route that
will be able TO compete with us for this
business.
what are the prospects of cCnstruc
ton on the west end?'
1--WE are in hopes of getting 100 miles
under contract In a couple of weeks.
That's the present calculation.
The line from Ogden this way is
surveyed a distance of over sou miles, and
for more than 100 is definitely located
he said. I'VE have the best route of all
the transcontinental lines, so far as relates
to grades, and as good, ii not better, for
local traffic. 1t may be looked upon by
railroad men, who know something of the
wild and rocky country of Wyoming and
Utah, as something of a wild statement
to make, but nevertheless we have 10,
Gated a route through that altitudinous
country and established a grade that will
make 1t possible for an average strength
locomotive to haul a freight train of
twentY-four loaded cars from the Ne
braska plains to Ogden. There is a
distance OF six miles on the Utah end
that will require the assistance of helper
to move trains west, but that's the only
bad place on the line"
How will that compare with the
operation of trains on the | MON Pa
cifc ?"
There's no more room for comparison
There is not fifty miles of that rugged
country by way of the Union Pacific
hat doesn't need a helper to assist trains
in climbing the grades, and the strongest
locomotives they have are not capable OF
hauling over fourteen cars to a train. "
A meeting is soon to be held here of
Pacific Short Line directors.