Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-11-30
BURLINGTON AND
LOS ANGELES ROAD
Surveyors Will Cross the City Limits To-
mOrrOw-UniOn Pacific and c. BE-
Q. Both Striving for Traffic.

The Burlington surveyors win in all
probability reach the city limits Boy to-
morrow evening and win have their
maps completed within the next few
days.
In this connection II Is interesting
20 state that Engineer Elmer A, Vail
OF the Salt Lake & ogden railroad this
morning made the last stroke Of the
| pen upon a map Of the proposed route
of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail-
road, and will turn the same over to
4Ir. Whiuemore this evening
PROPOSED ROUTES
The map covers the entire route with
an lbs proposed branches, and is COM
piled from some half a dozen surveys
that have been made In the past, in
Guiding the survey which was made by
Engineer Mccartney IN the Deep Creek
district OF course It does not essen
TALLY mean that this map viii be the
final route chosen for the Los Angeles
q salt Lake road, but at the same
time IL viii DE taken under considera-
ton by the promoters OF the line. in
| its present state 90 Is set forth that the
new road VIII make its entry into this
city over the tracks Of the oregon
Short Line and the Utah q Pacific, with
branch line from Lund 10 tap Cedar
City and the adjacent coal and iron
fields that are waiting the advent OF
the whistle OF the locomotive TO blossom
forth into veritable hives OF Industry.
From Uyada the route goes on TO
Phoebe skirting Delamar New, with its
| rich mines. thence on 10 Moapa and Los
Angeles The other route takes In the
narrow guage out 90 TOoee from there
on TO Deep Greek. and then almost in
a direct line south 20 Phoebe The
famous Ophlr mines. owned and oper-
ated by Senator W. A. Clark are in
cluded In the latter survey
81. & O. A FACTOR.
Just what part the Salt Lake & Og-
den plays In this survey is apparent
when the proximity Of the Burlington
surveyors 20 Salt Lake Is taken into
consideration The map includes this
line and further continues north
to the mouth Of Weber canyon at
a point near Uintah TO go northeast
along the south bank Of the Weber
river and out TO Wyoming
II has been stated time and time
again that when the Los Angeles road
builds into salt Lake that the Burling-
ton would boz on hand to take pp the
thread OF the new trans-contlnental
line II is well known by the signs Of
the times that the Burlington would
ultimately build 90 Utah, and Il has
been stated time and time again that
&c was looking for an outlet TO the
coast Two and two make four
UNION PACIFIC MOVE.
It is said that the Union Pacific has
been straining every nerve to Offset this
move on the part Of their formidable
rival and anticipating just such a move
have done everything IN their power To
head of the day which was surely COM
ing even % the extent Of inumatng
% the promoters OF the Los Angeles
road that they could buy the Short Line
properties south Of salt Lake for
reasonable figure. This offer has been
duly considered by the new road and
whether II viii be accepted with it's
attendant strings In the way Of freight
and passenger traffic remains to be
seen, on the other hand ID IS stated
that the Burlington means business and
is coming Just as sure as fate.
CHOICE OF TWO ROADS.
The Los Angeles road Is now IN the
happy position Of having two roads IN
the field making love 10 II and Offering
all kinds Of inducements In the ad-
vent Of the Los Angeles road accepting