The herald., 1894-10-18
NEWS ABOUT THE RAILROADS
Incorporation Papers Filed by the New
Utah Road.

Utah Road.
During the past few months general
interest has been stimulated by rumors,
and certain meager facts which were
allowed to transpire, regarding the new
line of road between Salt Lake city and
Los Angeles.
Everything has been hoped, from
having access to another transcontin-
entail road and the rich districts in Utah,
which are destined TO be opened up and
made tributary to this city, is calculated
to win the approval of every citizen in
terested in the progress OF Los Angeles
and the further development OF Southern
California.
The dim murmurings OF what is des-
tined to come to pass took shape yester~
day, when tho Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco and Salt Lake Railroad company
filed articles OF Incorporation with the
county clerk. While the statements
set forth are, as usual in such cases. re-.
stricted to the mere requirements de-
manded by law, yet in reading between
the lines sufficient information can be
Cleaned to warrant the belief that the
building of this new road will be pushed
with all the energy that brain and
money can command.
The names OF the directors are those
OF men who occupy front rsnk in the
business community. John NJ. O. Mar
Bile, the president of the newly formed
COMPANY, is also president of the Ma
tional Bank of California; T. 3. Burnett
is the vice-president and general man>
ager and treasurer of the Los Angeles
Terminal Railway company; Jefferson
Chandler and Shirley Ward are partners
in law practice, and Arthur Young. who
is named as secretary and treasurer,
represents the English syndicate of cap
ltalists who have invested 40 largely in
the Bear valley water scheme. The other
directors named are G. w. Rogers and
O. @. U. Stuart, the latter of Chicago.
600, and is divided into 120, 900 shares OF
a par value of 500 each. OF the total
amount $4,000 has been subscribed.
The surveys of the new road have all
been completed and at the Salt Lake
end grading has been begun but not
carried any very considerable distance.
While impsrting certain of the facts
yesterday one of the incorporstors stated
that a representative of the new COM
pany would be leaving this city for Salt
Lake City within the week for the pur-
pose OF perfecting necessary arrange
ments at that end of the line and for the
early resumption of actual work on the
line.
1t is peculiarly interesting, consider
ing the feeling of unrest and dissstis
tion in California regarding both local
and eastern freight rates. that San Fran.
cisco is chosen as ons OF the terminal
points of the new road. While from
Los Angeles it will wend its way through
the counties of San Bernardino and
IEyo into that territory and so on to
Salt Lake City, it will also run through
Kern, Tulare, Fresno, Meroed, Stanis.
lsus. San Joaquin, Santa Clara and Ala.
media to the metropolis of the north.
The length OF the line within this etate's
boundaries is estimated to be about 900
miles.
While such, briefly stated, is to be
the couree Of the road, stated in general
terms, its present objective point Is
Los Angeles, and when the arrange
ments now being made for interesting
capital are completed, work will be
commenced at this end to keep pace
with the track laying from the Salt
Lake end. Pending the closing OF ne
gotiations in this direction, many de-
tails are not being allowed to leak out,
suffice it to say that the cum subscribed
already is not merely good paper, but
is paid up.
railroad is not built in o day. nor is
$12, 900, 600 gathered up in a week, but
there is now every reason to suppose
that within reasonably short time the
iron horse, with its train OF cars, will
come from the uplands OF Utah, laden
with ita rich mineral treasures, into
the valleys of Los Angeles county and
insugurate an interchange of commoi-
tiles that can but result in the benefit
of both.
NOTES.
General Manager x. H. Wade, of the
Southern California road. left yesterday
for San Bernardino and Barstow, upon
an inspection trip.
General Passenger Agen. Thompson.
of the Southern California, returned
from his trip to San Diego yesterday
morning. He reports business exceed