The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-06

The short Line viii be running
trains into LIS Angeles within eighteen
months" This was the prophecy made
by a well known railroad man yeater-
oss, afternoon and nearly everybody
who is familiar WITH the situation be-
!ieves he is a good guesser. Just where
the san Pedro. Los Angeles x Salt Lake
line is going to land, is a matter for
deep thought.
There is a crumb of comfort fc~ the
latter road in the decision handed down
yesterday by the land office in Carson.
New, aw@rding the old Short Line
grade from UNada To a point seventy
five miles south TO the clark line. The
cain of the Short Line vas set aside
entirely If the decision is made To
stand. the San Pedro. Los Angeles &
salt Lake viii be permitted TO use
this grade
Interest IN the Denver & Rio Crande-
Rio Grande Western consolidation was
oversbadowed yesterday b. the pur-
chase OF the Utah & Pacific by the
Short Line. The statement of President
McCuue of the Utah x Pacific. that the
Short Line would be extended TO the
coast Immediately was general
y accepted as authoritative. Cen
ersd Manager Bancroft has left
New York and is now headed toward
Salt Lake. He is coming here as fast
as steam viii bring him and on his ar
rival it is thought that he may divulge
some interesting ldclS III connection
with the purchase and extension
There is no reason to doubt that the
Short Line IS going to fight the San
Pedro. Los Angeles & salt Lake road
in the most effective manner possible,
that is by building a competing line
and building it first The Hartman
road starts with the biggest kind of an
advantage Already 295 miles of the
stretch to Los Angeles are completed,
figuring the 220 miles to Mi ford and the
Utah & Pacific's seventy -five miles To
Uvada- Then if il takes possession Of
the old Utah q California grade. 1t has
seventy miles more the better of
the argument.
To Straighten Main Line.
This is taking out of consideration
the WORK Of Strengthening out the Short
Line from Salt Lake to Lea -1ingtOn
which would do away with Nephi
ISink and save considerable distance
IT would also shut the Clark road out
of a most desirable bit Of country. un-
less the Montana man desired TO paral-
lel the Hartman line.
II is understood that this part Of the
work viii be begun first. The track
from salt Lake to Garfield will be broad
gauged as "A statter and then the road
win be pushed right through Tooele
south to Silver City and over Boulder
pass TO bennington, as indicated by
Resident Engineer Ashton some days
ago in The Herald.
So far has this proposition progressed
that right OF way agents, il is said
arr now going over the surveyed route
picking out ground on which to throw
up the road bed and lay the rails. With
this completed the outlook for the san
Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake is not
particularly bright unless its people
have something up their sleeves which
las not yet been exhibited.
The idea Of the Short Line building tC
a connection with the Santa Fe, a dis
lance of ABOUT 200 miles. is not looked
on with favor by those directly inter
ested. Said a Short Line man yester-
day:
ITS ridiculous to talk about our
building a feeder for the Santa Fe
There wouldn't be anything in it for u:
To tap their line and so be compelled
10 split our freight and passenger bCsi-
ness. If the extension is made az all III
viii be all the way 10 the coast by the
Short Line. And We'll beat the Clari
road good and sufficiently. too. wher
we get started"
C;eifeval superintendent Calvin SAID
Ne knew nothing whslteVer about the
purchase of the Utah & Pacific or il.
significance other than what had APP
peared in the newspapers. He was no
prepared to say what would be done
with the road either at once or in tn,
future. but ne could not see that ths
purchase meant an immediate extern
sion
An Immediate Extension.
other well posted railroaders coul,
see nothing in the trade except an i'm
mediate extension of the Short Line &
the coast II have been given TO un
6erstand." said one, that the Utah
Pacific was running behind somethinl
ike 81 600 a month. Now, the ShOr
Line option did1't expire for rearl
two years I can't see, therefore, VIII.
the Short Line should want to take owe
losing proposition. unless it intend
TO make 10 Il winner right away. u
order 60 make il a winner. it must h
extended ~ the coast, and there's IL