Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-06
Rapidly Increasing Travel to
the SeashOre Resorts.
A Change in the Time Of the
Fish Train.
Men Wanted for Work on the Phoebe
Extension.
An Article on the Various Possible South
ern Pacific Coast Extensions-Prob-
ability of New Line Soon.

travel TO the SeaShOre has begun IN
good earnest. The Southern Pacific
finds it necessary to put extra cars on
every train in its Santa Monica service.
More people were carried yesterday
than on any week day thus far in the
season. Redondo Beach also secures a
large number of visitors.
Beginning today the "fsh train" to
San Pedro, connecting with the steamer
for Catalina will leave the Arcade depot
at a. m. instead of a. m. as hereto
fore.
A recent issue of the Salt Lake Tri-
bune says:
Engineer Mccartney, of the Union
Pacific, returned yesterday from the
south country. He says the grade is
finished for 100 miles, or within ten
miles of Pioche, and for thirty miles
from Milford all the culvert and trestle
work is done. While there are only
twelve miles of rails on hand, more is
now being shipped in. and from five
stations 10000 ties are being loaded.
The contractors want 500 men badly,
and Mr.. Mccartney says there is no eX
cuse for any man to stand around idle
in Salt Lake when good wages and steady
work await him on the extension. 1t is
cold and windy on the desert, SO that
an overcoat was comfortable. The con-
slant stream of wagons has cut up the
desert road until the dirt is as fine as
rice powder, and the dust is simply aw-
full. The grading machines are en-
veloped in vast cloud all day long.
Some one signing himself ID. E., who
writes an article in recent number of
the Railuay Age, thinks that the next
step in railway extension involves the
completion of some one or more OF the
various lines now running into Utah to
the Pacific coast.
Salt Lake City will, without doubt, be
the next western terminal for particu
lar railroad district, and is, therefore, OF
more than ordinary interest from rail
road standpoint. That Salt Lake is rap
idly growing into great city is not ques-
toned. The city is the center of a par
ticularly rich country, which contains
immense wealth in minerals and large
agricultural interests. 1t is also the
center of stock-raising country. So far
as machinery and productions are con-
cerned Utah is, strictly speaking, a con-
suming country, and it is not necessary
to haul empty cars in any direction. The
territory does not as yet produce suffi-
cient crops for home consumption, and a
good market is found here for Kansas
and Nebraska grain and hay.
The roads in Utah have a heavy local
business; in fact, they do not accommo-
date half the possible trade. This year
will see a number of new branches and
extensions completed. The Utah Cen
tral has just opened new line through
the Wasatch mountains from Salt Lake
to Park City. The Union Pacific is con-
tinuing it's southern branch from Mil
ford southeasterly to the Pacific coast,
opening up one of the richest mineral
and agricultural sections in the west.
This new extension means two things
new prosperity for southeastern Neva-
da, and through line of its own for the
Union Pacific, from Council Bluffs to
the Pacific coast. 1t has one already
Editor.] The Southern Pacific will,
some of these days, find itself without
But to return to the question of western
and Pueblo. The Denver and Rio
Grande in connection with the Colorado
Midland Rio Grande Western is an
nouncing through trains between Salt
Lake and Chicago about July 1st in con-
nection with the Rock Island. The Rio
Grande sy stem has about completed the
widening of it's gauge. If this new line
is to be worked under an agreement
similar to the Union Pacific and North
western, will this not add an additional
complication to the demoralized condi-
tion of rates, that can only be straight
ened out by such roads as the Burling-
ton and the Milwaukee having western
outlets of theirown?
There is spectre looming up in the
shape of new direct line from O'Neill
Neb., to Salt Lake City, distance of
$50 miles. This new road, the Pacific
Short Line. is laying track at the rate of
two miles per day, runs through a re-
markably good country, and will, when
completed, have line probably $50
miles shorter than the Union Pacific and
Northwestern between Chicago and Salt
Lake City. The roads that push into a
new country and build branch lines to
accommodate the people in local traffic
are the ones that prosper. Take the
Denver and Rio Grande SYSTEM its
great prosperity is largely due to this
policy. This line and its western outlet