Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-14
THE SECRET Is OUT.
Tho Missouri Pacific Said 10 be Build
ins 10 Los Angeles.
WHY MR.. CLARK E--.S>>-..
p,omlnent Salt Lake and Los Angeles
Property Owner Talks
Interestingly.

Tho Union Pacific officers In this
,,,v have been In 4 state OF suspense
N.,,everal days. Their unessiness Is
caused BY the rumorod resignation OF
r,,.laen, s. II. II. Clark, which con-
lot. w,,h II the possibility OF n change
IN the general management, which In
n,r II 10 believed, will effect local
oo,cer, 70 a greater or less extent. The
All that MIR. Clark will DO elected
s,S,ldent Of the Missouri Pacific Is
a,needed In railway circles to be cor
rect.
Tho main interest that such n pro-
..dure will arouee In the minds OF the
people Of Utah will be found In what
sppears to be the assured construction
AZ The Missouri Pacific to the coast
through this Territory.
"Thofc is absolutely no doubt" said
apromincnt Salt Laker, to a NEWS
repor,er today who has large property
interests In Los Angeles and who was
on recent visit to that city, "but
that there will soon DO another trans.
continental railway through Utah.
The proposition to make Mr.. Clark
president OF the Missouri Pacific 4.
mart Ut tine schemo ind 1 will tell you
why. Whom l was In Los Angeles |
made very careful inquiry AZ to who
were at the head Of the little road
known as the Terminal and where II
was going. There has been nm air OF
nyslery about this road ever since four
yeare ago when its promoters went be.
fore the Los Angeles city council and
asked for a franchise. Tho mayor at
that time refused TO eign the franchise
unless "a $4,000 bond was put up IN
o guarantee OF good faith, saying that
the city must have some assurance
that tho enterprise was bona fido. IL
rather surprised the Los Angeles people
when the bond was promptly given.
Who was back OF the scheme could
not DO ascertaiuoi. Tho Only reply
was that Eastern capitalists were Gu.
cheering the affair. Now the point
Is this Not long ago | ascertainei
from an authentic source, that Preel-
dent Clark, Steve Elkins and
Assistant General Manager Smith u
the Missouri Pacific nro directors In
the company which built this road. Its
wtstbOund terminus ID Mt the San
Pedro hnrbor. IL passes through Los
Angeles, where II mas large and valu.
able depot grounds, extending thirty
miles eastward to Altadena, from
which point u party OF surveyors are
now working this way.
snow then, cou lie this with the
fact Of Mr.. Clark going to the Missouri
Pacific and the further fact that the
last named road has already let
n contract on tho road east OF us
which will bring 1t into Utah nj aii
early date aud all Is perfectly clear.
up AMI Utah will soon be connected
with the coast bya new road.
The following nom the Los Angeles
Herald would seem to bear out this
construction: Los Angeles III to have
another trapscontinental railway. Tho
secret OF the construction Of the rail-
way from Golf station, ON the Atlantic
anu Pacific road, 10 the Vanderbilt
district mines IL discovered, and the
hand Of the dead Jay Gould Ia found
10 have been the factor which brought
about the echeme which Ia herewith
outlined.
From source OF the utmost crodenco
Herald reporter yesterday learned
that probably within II months time
the Missouri Pacific railway will have
trains running into this city, anu will
ain 10 get its share OF Pacific coast
Worlds Fair business.
The Missouri Pacific now has u
through line on far west as Huoriano,
IN Colorado, this sid. OF Pueblo.
Yesterday the company lei contract
for the construction OF 2bO miles OF
track from Huoriano west, when will
bring 1t well into Utah.
1t was also learned from the same
source that tho people who are build
Ing the Coil line are directly connected
with the Missouri Pacific, and that the
plan Is, by this means, to build from
10th ends Mt once, and thus complete
We line at as early n date as possible.
IL Is supposed that the Santa Fs COM
pany has entered into traffic
arrangement with the Missouri Pa
ellie no m TO handle tue business from
dol TO this city. II such III not IN,
onte, II woulu DO comparatively easy
lof the latter company TO enter the city
by It's own line, or by forming con.
nvctiOn with the Terminal.
II 10 also q well known fact the Mis-
souri, Pacific has secured valuable
property holdings In this city and thai
should II build westward 1t VIII have
splendid depot grounuB here.