The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-31
GOING TOLOS ANGELES
MeSSrs. Keith and kearns Are
on Railroad Business.
THE NEW LINE TO UTAH
MEETING TO BE HELD IN THE
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CITY.

The natural skepticism felt among
Salt Lake citizens when the infOrma
ton was given out from Los Angeles
that w. A Clark had bought into the
Los Angeles Terminal and would pro-
coed at once to extend the line to Salt
Lake, seems to be disappearing.
1t is the growing opinion that there
will be no disappointment this time;
that the new road TO the southwest is
an assured fact
On the Los Angeles end the repre-
sentative citizens there are giving the
project every encouragement possible,
and meeting has been called to dis
cuss matters of vital interest in con-
nection with the proposed extension of
the Terminal towards Utah. Just what
points will be taken up and what is
likely 10 be done has not been made
pubic. Something Is kept in the back
g@Sund, and until the meeting takes
place little will be known about what
is going on in the inside.
Several OF Salt Lakes most promi-
nent citizens have been invited to at
tend the Los Angeles gathering. c.
.. Whittemore Is already on the
ground. He was one of the invited
guests. David Keith and Tom Kearns
are also on the list and are speeding on
their way to southern California. The
two latter gentlemen were detained in
Ogden yesterday on account of the de-
layed Union Pacific train from the
east, and Mr.. Kearns made the admis-
sion to a warm friend in the junction
city that their trip is made on bust
in =
extension to Salt Lake.
Old Herman Franchise.
1t is believed by a few here that the
old Herman franchise across southern
Nevada has been cOrralIed by the pow
ers behind the Terminal The condi-
tons upon which it was granted orig
inally have been complied with in d
quiet way, and very few people in
Salt Lake today are aware of it's ex-
istence. But it does exist, and at one
time when the franchise was about to
lapse, local capitalists took the matter
up. The utmost secrecy was kept for
fear that c. 2. Huntington, before his
death, might do something to head
them off.
The Herman route starts across Ne
vada near Phoebe and cuts into Cali
fOrnia some distance north of Blake
station, on the Santa Fe, passing
through some valuable mining regions
and opening up good agricultural and
stock raising region
The result of the Les Angeles con-
ference is awaited with considerable
interest.
Speaking of the advantages of the
new line, the Los Angeles Herald says:
Benefits of Road.
There are many features of a road
to Salt Lake which will be surprising
to all who study its possibilities. For
instance, it will place Los Angeles as
close TO Montana by rail as is San
Francisco or Portland, the two points
from which supplies in Montana are at
present mainly received. 1t will open
to the wholesalers of this city, in many
lines Of trade, portions of Nevada and
Utah, and will so strengthen them that
they will be stronger factors in other
markets. The road viii bring to this
city the benefits of a great mineral
district, rich in iron, coal, gold, silver
and copper. 1t will make of Los An
geleS the only city in the southwest
with three through railroad lines, and
will make of it's port at San Pedro a
shipping point second to none on the
Pacific coast
Fruit, petroleum, grain, minerals and
manufactures form a combination
growing in Importance with wonderful
strides. and these are the Justification
as they are undoubtedly the incentive
for the most important enterprise in
southern California for two decades"