Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1902-02-07
cLARK's RAILROAD.
Official Tells of the Arrangements
Made with Oregon Short Line.

Official Tells of the Arrangements
Made with Oregon Short Line.
Since his return to Los Angeles,
Vice President j Ross Clark of the
San Pedro, Salt Lake and Los An
qeles railroad has made All extended
statement as TO the status of the en-
terprise. In tho Los Angeles Herald
il printed denial by Mr. Clark that
the Oregon Short Line has been
leased or purchased by the San
Pedro.
When the attention OF Mr.. Clark
was drawa To- the fact hat the gem
eral impression existed that an ami
cable understanding had been
reached between the Salt Lake road
and the Oregon Short Line over
right OF way. and that this could
have been carried to the extremes in
the assertion that his road had pur-
chased the Oregon Short Line. Mr..
Clark said:
"In order TO remove this impress
sion the fact can be stated that a
business understanding between
ourselves and the Oregon Short Line
has been reached. This arose from
Q demand for the right of way
through the Meadow valley wash,
for which both reads contended.
The wash is 115 miles long and runs
scross the ribs OF scores of ranges
Of mountains that iut into the very
narrow valleys. Whatever geological
freak caused this structural condition
, Of the surface OF the desert country,
no ons may know, but we know that
In that short distance the opposing
surveys Of both roads crossed and
re-crossed each other twenty-six
times, presenting railroad problems
that are seldom developed.
"These engineering feats were
also heightened by the fact that this
wash runs between rock ribbed noses
chat rise in places l,70O feet in spots
the wash being as narrow - curb to
curb on Broadway.
"To build around these mountain
ranges, to follow other routes or
sssk others grades, would involve
the expenditure Of vast sums, the
end being that one Of the roads
would have this wash route TO the
detriment Of the other This ar
rangement permits both lines, with
out a squabble, to use this wash
route, and in cases where the dis
tanca is only thirty or forty feet from
rock to rock the points will be
blasted away, the cars Of each road
passing each other within their own
shadows. This was purely COM
mercial and has no traffic signi6-
cance."
Regarding the future and the con-
struction OF the Salt Lake route. Mr.
Clark said that the line would not
completed before January, 1908.
"The fact is, Mr.. Clark continued
"that the completion Of such an en-
terprise in two years will be re-
aarded 90 an achievement in railroad
CIRCLES, as we have many physical
difficulties to overcome From the
present outlook Of the iron market
it will be impossible to get material
10 complete the line at an earlier
period, as all railroads are short in
in the rolling stock and other neces-
sites for which orders have long
been placed. We shall push the line
and do our work in first-class fashion
90 that when completed stable sys-
tenn is at once created"
At present tine roadbed OF the Salt
Lade road is completed to Rio Honda
ten miles east OF Los Angeles, while
the grading as far as Ontario is al.
most completed. The first steel
bridge of the line is being erected
between those points. Mr.. CLARK
say that no definite route has beer
selected north and east from Ontario
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