Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-28
CLARK MAY
Do WONDERS
UTAH EXPECTS 70 PROFIT
GREATLY BY HIS RUMORED
RAILROAD DEAL.
Development OF COAL
MINES WOULD RESULT
Angeles Record Discusses Survey
. of the New Line to Salt
2 Lake.

w. A. Clark evidently has some big
in view in addition to the line
or railroad from Los Angeles to Salt
Lake says The Tribune. First of all, he
must have a coal supply. That would
mean the still greater development OF
existing mines or the opening of new
ones. Utah has plenty of coal, so it will
,be merely a question as to which supply
will be utilized. The Cedar City fields
are for sale. The Sanpete Valley railroad
and Sterling Coal company nave immense
holding in Sanpete county Of coal lands,
With two mines being operated. The
road and the mines could be bought at
any time when the proper amount of cash
is offered.
Mr.. Clar has made a careful study of
the local situation for some time past,
and his supposed agent, w. H. Holabird,
went over the Utah & Pacific and Rio
Grande Western lines. He carefully look
ed into the coal supply, and later went to
Denver, returning to Salt Lake after 4
two weeks absence, and again making
Investigations which included the traffic,
franchises and value of the Salt Lake u
Los Angeles and the Salt Lake & Ogden.
Mr.. Clark owns the Ophir Hill mine at
Ophir canyon, west of Salt Lake, which
he has been developing greatly for the
last year. AS the min is on the line Of
a Salt Lake-Deep Creek road of the flu
ture, it may be possible that the new line
from Los Angeles to Muddy Valley,
Wash, via old surveyed routes, thence 10
Phoebe direct, Deep Greek, Ophir and Salt
Lake. The latter route seems probable,
as in the official announcement it was eX-
; pressly stated hat no connection wouid
be sought with other lines in southern
Utah. Mr.. Clark is one of the richest
men in the country, n able to build The
road without any help. For that reason
his project is regarded more favorsbly
than any that nave heretofore zen start
ed, and a large number of people are con-
fident that there is no bluff about the lat
est railway scheme.
Continuing it's news of the w. a.
i Clark deal, the Los Angeles Record says:
I'm the popular speculation IN the flu
ture plans of the re organized Terminal
railroad, in the extension to Salt Lac,
some Significance attaches to the fact
that though the company will transform
he. Pasadena line into an electric road
! the branch to Glendale will be Gains
for steam traffic. If the engineers Of the
new Salt Lake railroad were finally to
select the Big rejunga and Little Rock
canyon as passes TIL .'ouga The Sierra
Madres, the Glendale hranoh would be
j utilized foi the ,ity ntrance. These
facts are beiug studied by the Lee pie
of Glendale and Whereabouts, who Would
like to have the new road run through
their section. While Engineer HaWgood
and staff are running lines out of the city
from Hobart station toward San Bernar-
! dino, the people or the Glendale line are
prepared to see actual work begin there
first. The Big Tejunga roue has been said
10 be impractical BILE by reason of necessar-
lily steep grades. One who knows where
of he speaks says today that the Big t.
junga is passable, though a tunnel 1900
feet long will be required. In any of the
passes tina are available SOM heavy
work will be required and in this respect
the Big Tejunga is said to be no worse
than the San Gorgonia or Cajon. The
Cajon pass, now occupied by the Santa
Fe. is said to be .oomy enough for an
! other line, with aven d better grade than
that of the present road through that ter
raced mountain gateway.
One singular fact that may we'll puzzle
the average layman is why engineering
work should begin at this end of the pro-
posed line to Salt Lake, where the ground
+, is so familiar, are already occupied, rath-
err than through the Wilds of Nevada and
Utah., The method of this campaign is
not-disclosed to the critical public AMI The
Knockers that abound and harass al
1audable enterprises. Thus, While an en-.
eineer corps and a band wagon may st
tract all public attention to one part.cu.
lar section, some actual, necessary WORK
may be accomplished in another section
that may temporarily be neglected by r.
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