The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-08
RAILROAD NEWS.
Senator Clark's New Line is Be-
ing Pushed.
VIII Be Completed in Eighteen
Months.
NO LONGER 4 DISPUTE.
Vice President GibbOn Tells
About Its Construction.
Other Railroad News of Local
and General Interest.
10 LONGER A DISPUTE.

According to reports from the west,
it now seems certain that the much dis
puted line of railroad partially built last
year by Senator Clark of Montana,
Perry s. Heath, of the national Repub-
Hean committee. Richard Kerens of St.
Louis and a number of other capitalists,
known as the San Pedro. Los Angeles
and Salt Lake road viii be put through
without further difficulty. Last summer
it was opposed by the Oregon Short Line
and at several times the workmen We're
called upon to take up arms and defend
what their employers believed belonged
to them.
Regarding the progress on the road
and its future. T. e Gibbon, third vice
president and counselor general of the
system, said recently:
We have just completed a joint sur
Vey with the Oregon Short Line people
over the disputed territory 4 Lincoln
county, Nevada. The whole matter OF
dispute with them has been harnonized,
and there can be no further delay from
that source on account of litigation.
Three surveying parties are now at
work on the line through the Sierra
Madre mountains. The road Will pierce
the mountains at Cajon pass, eighty
miles from Los Angeles, the point where
the Santa Fe line passes through. There
are several surveying parties working
miles of line have been surveyed and
mapped over government lands. These
maps have been filed with the govern
ment, and our title to this part OF our
line is therefore secure.
More than 5000 tons of rails have
been delivered to US, 10000 more tons
of rails have been ordered for future
delivery and will be available as soon
as we can use them. We have on hand
a large quantity of ties and have con-
tracted for 500 600 more, to be delivered
on demand. The best seyenty-tiye-
pound steel rail is being used in the
construction of the new line. Three
hundred and fifty-one ties is the min
inum number used per mile of track.
The finest steel and masonry work that
money can buy is to be put into con-
struction The road win be rock ball
lasted eight inches deep throughout its
length. In every respect the Salt Lake
road viii have the best initial construc-
ton of any road that has been built
in the West, and probably in the United
States.
The track will be very similar to
that of the Pennsylvania lines. The
rails are not to be spliced together with
the old-fashioned fish plates. sContinu-
Gus steel joints, weighing tWenty-nine
pounds each, are being used. This as
sures a smOothness of track not at
tanned by the old method of eonstruc-
ton. There will be no springing joints
or springing rails in the track.
"A large order for rolling stock has al
ready gone in, and part of the order has
been delivered. Most of the rails and the
bridge of steel has come across the
country in our own cars. All of the cars
will be large and heavy. The Pullman
company is building for us q number of
immense box and freight cars. each with
d capacity of $4,000 pounds.
AS near as can estimate at the pres
ent time. the line viii be completed In
about Is months The work is going on in
a systematic manner, and we would rather
have it done right in the first place, and
not poorly done by haste We intend to
ever been seen in the country The $780,
600 that has already gone into the con-
struction has been carefully applied. and
there are many more millions available as
will be necessary for the completion of the
underta king