The herald., 1897-12-16
ANOTHER LINK
The Salt Lake Railroad to
Become a Reality
JOHANNESBURG TO keller
RANDSBURG ROAD AN IMPORT
ANT CONNECTION
Heavy Tourist Travel Is Expected.
Guard jennings to Be Rewarded.
News Of the Railroads

| News OF the Railroads
The long desired Salt Lake railroad is
to be an accomplished fact before the
end Of 1898. The Randsburg railroad
which will stop at johannesburg until
next spring, is the newest link in the
chain Of another great transcontinental
route. For the present the Santa Fe and
the Santa Fe Pacific railroads will con-
meet the desert mining country with Los
Angeles, as those lines are not so busy
but what the Randsburg Railway COM
pany can use their tracks at a small cost.
President Dougherty has been in
Johannesburg often of late and has
picked out the route from that town
to Keeler, where connections will be
made with D. o. Mills Carson & Colo
RADIO railroad. The route chosen is nearly
the stage route to Panamint all the way
and about the same as the old Salt Lake
railroad survey. The engineers who
have gone over the eighty miles with
President Dougherty, very carefully and
correctly. report that the construction
work most of the way will be as easy as
the twenty-eight miles between johann
nesburg and Kramer, much of which has
cost less than $1,000 a mile, one-fifth the
usual cost anywhere but over the desert
region.
Work will be carried on rapidly be-
tween johannesburg and Owens lake
after the spring and winter rains and
storms end, SO that trains can be run
ming between Kramer and Keller by
October next. Thus connections will be
made with Salt Lake City over the Gen.
trail Pacific and the Carson & Colorado
railways. The next move is to connect
the Oregon Short Line with the Rands-
burg railway direct. To do this it is only
necessary to build east from Owens lake
into Southern Nevada, as the Oregon
Short Line is partly constructed west
from Frisco in southwestern Utah to
Phoebe, New. This link between Keller
and Phoebe Is only about 200 miles long
and can be finished while the Randsburg
railroad and the Los Angeles Terminal
railway are being connected through
the Antelope valley and the Sierra
Madre mountains.
And thus the Union Pacific will have
through line into Los Angeles from
Omaha before January 1, 1899. The
Vanderbilt interests have examined the
300 miles of the proposed route from
Frisco, Utah, to Keller Cal, and found
many good town sites as well as abund-
ance of mineral and water. Like the
link in this continental chain now being
completed between Johannesburg and
Kramer. every mile will pay from the
running Of the first train. Right of way
from Frisco to Phoebe has already been
secured and Silver City has made ex-
cellent overtures, while from that point
to Keller there Is no trouble about right
Of way, much of which will cost nothing.
Another route from Silver City has been
which will strike D. o. Mills
narrow gauge road at Candelaria, New.
The heaviest work Of the whole route
is from Antelope valley into the San
Fernando valley, and there is POSSIBLE
ity of arrangement with the Southern
Pacific to use the San Fernando tunnel
until the Union Pacific can build tun-
mel Of its own or connect by the SINH
pass. AS soon as the Randsburg railway
Is running regular trains Chauncey De-
pew and j. Pierpont Morgan, the prin-
cipal hackers Of the road, are expected
here with several other members of the
syndicate to arrange for the extension
of the line beyond Keeler. The Rands-
burg railway will run its trains regular
ly from Barstow to johannesburg, thus
making close connections with the Santa
Fee overland trains both ways. This will
make 1t possible to save many hours
over the present Barstow connection.
While the Los Angeles Terminal rail-
road will probably be used to reach San
Pedro harbor, 1t is possible that entirely
new terminal facilities may be acquired
in Los Angeles, including connection
with the Santa Fee and Southern Pacific
depots. The Vanderbilts have long been
for direct connections to the coast
and the reorganized Union Pacific, with
the Chicago & Northwestern and the
Vanderbilt lines east of Chicago, will
make it possible to meet the Southern
Pacific and the Santa Fe on their own
ground. This pretty fight is of much in
terest to Southern Californians and the
few miles from Randsburg to Keller
will, for the present, make a new CONT
mental line visible. While those inter-
ested In the Randsburg railroad are very
duOut Lie AOVcs Tie 1dCLS nave
leaked out from time to time, so that
what was at first but suspicion has be-
come the most important move in rail-
reading since the sale of the Union Pa
cif1c with its sensational incidents and
governmental Importance.
HEAVY TRAVEL EXPECTED
General passenger agent Jno. j. Byrne
of the Santa Fe Pacific railway, who re-
turned from Chicago yesterday, where
he went ten days ago to attend a confer
ence Of traffic officials of the Santa Fe
system. states that never before has he
heard of so many people who contem-
plate coming to Southern California this
winter. A larger number than usual,
declares Mr.. Byrne, expect to come with
a view to remaining permanently, and
are arranging to bring their household
goods with them. Owing to the rapidly
travel the Santa Fe system
will on January II place an additional
train on the road between Chicago and
Los Angeles, making three weekly fast
trains known as the California limited.
These trains will leave Chicago for the
west ON Mondays. Wednesdays and Sat-
urdays. and eastbound will leave this
city on Tuesdays. Fridays and Satur-
lays.
REWARDED FOR BRAVERY
Guard Jennings. who killed e. II. Gull
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