The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-03-05
CAUGHT ON THE RUN.
Burlington Not to Buy Clark's Railroad.
Gu~ernsey-Salt Lake Line.

Burlington Not to Buy Clark's Railroad.
~Guernsey-Salt Lake Line.
In an interview at Los Angeles Sena-
tor W. A. Clark, who is at the head of
the company which is said to be build
ing the new San Pedro, Los Angeles &
Salt Lake road, denied that there is
any intention of selling the new line
to the Burlington, but admitted that
the relations between the two roads
would be very friendly. It is this
road which it is rumored is to be the
outlet for the Burlington west of Salt
Lake when its Guernsey extension ID
completed. The senator said on this
proposition:
1.-THE San Pedro, Los Angeles &
Salt Lake road will not be sold to the
Burlington, but will be built by the
present holders. The Burlington will
without doubt build from Wyoming
into Salt Lake, and when the two
Grads are completed and meet in that
city I am free to state that their rela-
tions will be of the most friendly
nature.
"No, I have no knowledge of any
intention on the part of the Union Pa
cific Of running a line through from
the terminus Of the Utah Southern, at
Frisco, Utah, to Los Angeles, although
they may contemplate such a move.
AS they have repeatedly denied it, I
see no cause for worriment.'
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Dispatches from Guernsey, Wyo.,
indicate that the Burlington is push
ing it's extension of the Guernsey-Salt
Lake line and that there is a strong
prospect Of the work being started this
year. 1t is said that the final survey
Of the line is being completed in the
mountains just west of Guernsey and
that as soon as this is completed the
contracts will be let. Many railroad
builders and graders are on hand look
ing over the ground preparatory to
bidding on the work. One Of these in
speaking Of the work said that it will
require from eight months to a year to
push the road through the mountains.
The line, as it is understood to have
been selected, in many places follows
uCCP oAu udL4o" OahSo Ic, NAlC4O ~
will be necessary to drive many tun-
nels and construct several heavy
bridges. The line is counted on to
furnish some of the finest scenery that
the picturesque Burlington will have
to offer.
Geo. b. Harris, who has been elect
ed president of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy railroad, first started on
his career as a ,railroader as clerk in
the Office of his father, who was land
commissioner for the Hannibal & St.
Joseph in 1865. Since her his career
has been a most active one, filling the
positions of clerk, cashier, purchasing
agent, superintendent and general
agent, assistant to general manager,
general manager and president Of the
Chicago, Burlington & Northern at St.
Paul, vice-president of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy, and now presi-
dent.
Mike Gilmore, who graded the
Bridger branch of the Northern Pa
cific, has been awarded a big contract
on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
near Creston, Iowa. He will move
100 of his teams and two steam shovels
and commence work at once. Mr..
Gilmore has not been contracting for a
year or more past.
l. x x x
The Burlington route is having
prepared a handsome lot of colored
pictures Of Yellowstone park which it
will soon distribute over the country.
There are so pictures in the series and
they are of unusual beauty, being in
natural colors.
TOO MTTCu r0uNSON