The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
AIR LINE OF RAILS
TO THE PACIFIC
New Road Being Built to Connect Salt Lake With
Los Angeles.
Years Great Event of Importance to the People of Utah
Railroads Ali Prosperous.

The year of 1898 has been n of great
activity in Utah railway circles, and
no better proof of the growing indus
trial Importance of the state is needed
than the steadily increasing earnings
of the roads which penetrate into its
agricultural and mining regions. In no
previous year has such a good showing
been made, and it is largely due to this
general prosperity that several 1mpor-
tant owe have been made that are
destined to form essential factors in the
upbuilding of the state.
One of these is the organization Of
the Utah & Pacific to build a line from
Milford south, tapping the great State,
line mining district on the line between
Utah and Nevada, Phoebe and De La
mar, New, and finally or through to
Los Angeles.
The great advantage of a short line
from Utah, and especially Salt Lake,
to Los Angeles, has for a long time
been patent to every business man in
the west. During the last few years
the output of the mining regions in
the southwestern part of Utah and the
southern part of Nevada has been
growing into enormous proportions, and
even at the tremendous cost of hauling
ore through a rough country the prop
critics were operated at a profit, and
development work has been rapidly in
~creasing opening up new properties
This condition awakened parties inter
eSted in the districts into seeing the
great advantage and safe investment a
road into these wealth bringing regions
would be, and early last spring r. G.
Lund of st. George, w. L. Hoge of
Montana, David EccleS of Ogden n
others opened up negotiations with the
Oregon Short Line for an extension
from Milford south over the old grade
built years ago as far as Phoebe, New.
During the early stage OF these nego-
tiations A. w. McCune was interested,
and the project at once became ar as
sured success. On Aug. 81 articles OF
Incorporation of the Utah & Pacific
Railroad company were filed with the
secretary Of state. The capital was
placed at sS25, 900, and the following
officers named: President, A. w. Nc
Cune; vice president, David Eccles;
ley. In addition to the above the direc-
tors were Joseph F. Smith, Richard
Macintosh, Robert c. Lund and
Thomas D. Dee. A short time after
wards the construction of e~ighty-five
miles of the road was begun, and at
the close of the year nearly one-half
of this distance has been completed.
From present indications trains will
be operated into Phoebe by March 1 at
the very latest
WILL REACH PACIFIC.
From the Nevada terminus to Los
Angeles is but a little over 200 miles,
and it is confidently predicted that ere
the close Of 1899 work viii have COM
menced on this extension, which, in the
words of President McCune, when he
made his initial inspection trip over
the new line, shall cannect Utah with
the sun-kissed Pacific" With the eX-
tension into Nevada it is almost GER
tain the Utah & Pacific will build a
branch to tap the coal region near
Beaver City, and reach out into other
hat are ~marvelously rich in
possibilities. The road will open a
country possessing wonderful re-
sources, which have heretofore laie
dormant on account of the lack of
transportation facilities. It will slim
mining throughout a vast terri
tory, not only the mining of silver, but
of gold, lead, iron and coal. 1t Will
afford a market for the great products
of fruit, wine and semi-tropical fruit,
which Utah's Dixie has become
Since work on the Utah & Pacific