The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-20
Splendid Record Made On Utah &
Pacific.
SHORT LINERS PLEASED
BANCROFT PARTY HUSTLED
OVER THE LINE.
Made the Run From Milford to the
Terminus In An Hour and Twenty
Minutes-Now Within Twelve
Miles of the State Line-Will Fin
ish Up In Two Weeks.

Nearly fifty miles an hour over q
track that has been spiked down some
four months or less, and that, too, with
out enough rocking to jostle water out
of a glass three-quarters full. This Is
the record established by Short Line
officials in their latest tour over the
Utah & Pacific railroad.
When General Manager Bancroft
Traffic Manager Ecclesl Chief Engineer
O'Melveney, General Passenger Agent
Burley and Division Superintendent
Young went down to Milford Tuesday
morning to go over the Utah X Paclhc
they didn't expect to return until to-
day. Nobody expected them yesterday
and when all of the officials appeared
at their offices bright and early yester-
day morning people who saw them
threw up their hands and wanted II
know why they didn't finish their trip
I'VE did finish it, sad the railroad
ers. smilingly, and we did it in rec
ORD time"
Mr.. Eccles said that it took their spe-
cial just one hour and twenty minutes
to cover the sixty-three miles from Nil
ford to the Utah & Pacific terminus
twelve miles from the state line. This
is within a fraction of fOur-fifths OF a
mile a minute, or forty-eight miles an
hour.
This is considered by men who bno "
the business to be most remarkable
AS usual thing a speed of twenty OF
twenty-five miles an hour over a new
road is plenty lively enough TO rocS
passengers around considerably. Mi
Eccles has no hesitancy in saying thai
the Utah 6, Pacific is the best new roac
he has seen in years.
During their return to Milford the
Bancroft special was COMPELLED to back
up several miles to reach a ~. Even
with this reversed style of locomotion
the road was covered at the rate ot
forty miles an hour.
THE Utah & Pacific is a regular race
track said Mr. Eccles. Its steepesj
grade is only twenty feet to the mile
and trains can be sent over it at Q
great rate OF speed. The present ter
minus is now only twelve miles from
the state line, and present indications
are that in two weeks time il will be
finished
Mr.. Eccles thinks one reason for the
excellence of the Utah & Pacific's time
slashing ability lies in the fact that lis
readbed is old. 1t has had time II pack
as hard as rock since it was thrown
up. nearly a dozen years ago.
The ultimate extension of the UTAH
& Pacific to the coast is now regarded
as certain. The route has been sur
veyed as far as Barstow, wnsre tina
mountains begin, over ground that viii
require, at the greatest, a grade Of sew
enty-nine feet to the mile.
When the road reaches the state line
IT will oe within twenty-five miles OF
Phoebe. tifty-five miles from De Lamar
and forty-one miles from st. ueorge
1t will be possible to leave Salt Lake a.
$50 p. m. and arrive at Pioche at 2:Sl
the next afternoon, st. George at
o'clock and De Lamar at 9.
Some lead ore from Phoebe and some
copper from the ST George country is
already being shipped out over the new
line More is expected to follow as tbs
residents of those localities become
awakened to the immensely improved
transportation facilities offered them.