The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-09-24
THE AIR LINE.
It Is q Certainty that the Salt Lake
Railway Construction VIII be
Pushed

The affairs of the San Francisco and
Great Salt Lake Railway are in fine
shape and the prospects of the road
never looked better than they do now,
says the S. F. Report.
"When we come before the public"
E. L. G.. Steele of the Board of Direc-
tors said to-day, cit will be as if the
road were built" He looked decid-
edly cheerful as he spoke and it is
known that decidedly reassuring addi-
tions to the list of subscribers to the
the stock have been received-men
who not only subscribe themselves,
but whose example will certainly in
duce others to follow. They are the
names of well known big men of affairs.
The Great Salt Lake line will be
strongly backed financially before any
thing of a definite nature is made
public regarding its financial arrage-
ments.
In brief, any doubt that may have
existed as to the building of the San
Francisco and Great Salt Lake rail
way is now removed. The great in
dependent competing road will be
built, will be built soon, and will be
built with California capital.
While the financial arrangements
of the company have been satisfactor-
lily progressing, the engineering ar
rangements have by no means been
neglected. The survey of the route
has so far progressed that it will be
completed within a month or six
weeks.
Four surveying parties are now in
the field between Suisun Bay and Beck
with Pass, including one party that
began work above Big Bend, on the
Feather river, yesterday. Another
party has surveyed line into the San
Joaquin valley for the purposed feeder
of the main Great Salt Lake railway,
and this survey has been particularly
satisfactory to the promoters of the
competing line. incidentally this
survey has exposed some poor engin-
eering work on the part of the South
ern Pacific engineers. The Salt Lake
roads surveyors have had the pleas
ure, therefore, of profting by the
Southern Pacifc's mistakes.
The surveying party sent out was
in charge of Emory Oliver. Mr.. Oil
yer, as said above, began work yester
day at point above Big Bend on the
Feather river. The survey from Beck
with Pass to the point where Mr..
Oliver began work is nearly completed.
| It has been made under Surveyor
Keddie of Quincy, and will be finished
by the end of next week. Then the
route from Beckwith Pass-in fact
from the State line-vill be completely
surveyed from that point to above
Big Bend and from Oroville to Suisun
Bay. Mr.. divers instructions are to
go ahead as rapidly as possible and
make a permanent survey from this
point of beginning on the Feather
river to Oroville. Then the chain will
be complete.
AS the general route is now known,
there is no further concealment to be
made of the fact that the San Francisco
& Great Salt Lake railway will have
the shortest route from San Francisco
to Sacramento, and into the San Joa-
quin valley-much shorter than the
Southern Pacific. The road crosses to
the Sacramento side from Contra Costa
county at point near New York land
ing--some times called Black Diamond.
Thence it runs direct to Sacramento,
and thence direct to Oroville. The
route from Oroville to Beckwith was
described in the Report six week ago.
The part of the road from Sacra-
mento to Oroville will be the first built
and will be in operatian while the rest
of the road is under construction. AS
each section north and south shall be
completed the operating department
shall be placed in control, and SO the
districts tapped by the new road will
at once get the benefit of communica-
ton by rail with the bay and of COM
petition.
A. G. Cleveland is in charge of the
railway work in Nevada State, but just
what he is doing is not known, as he
has not intrusted his idea to paper.
Enough is known, however, to say