The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-17
TWO PACIFIC ROADS. MR. HARRI1IAN'S SPEECH
 UPON THE
Linton Pacific md South Pacific at n
 Banquet in San Francisco.


 Banquet in San Francisco.
 First, perhaps, it would be well for S me to tell you what some of you per haps already know as to what we have done on the Union Pacific. About tn ee the Union Pacific emerged from bank ruptcy, and the present management " took possession, we found a railroad in- ! capable of doing business which was
 tributary to it. We went to work and in the first year we increased the ca < pacity of the equipment. We added, in the first year, about S4 per cent. to the total capacity of the freight equipment alone, and incidentally, of course, we had to add motive power to carry that ' increased capacity.
 Perhaps some of you who have ridden over the Union Pacific within the last x six months have noticed the work that < has been done on what we call our "Rocky Mountain Division" The prob \ lem was how to improve that line so as x to serve the territory tributary to it in X the best manner and in the most
 economical way. We commenced our x surveys, and from one step to another F1 in about two years and half from I the time we began we reduced the \ grades of the Union Pacific from < maximum of about 90 feet to maxi < mum of 43 3-10 feet. That Is our moun- < tain grade. gentlemen, on the Union < Pacific. (Applause.) I think you all < understand what that means. We have < all had something to do with mountain K work We also eliminated curvature { and reduced 1t from a maximum of 10 X per cent. to per cent, having only in ~ one instance curvature of per cent. for a short curve. That resulted in reduction of distance of thirty miles. In other words, we built 15S miles of rail-
 road nd threw away 1SS miles; we aban- doned 1S8 miles of road that was al- ready in existence and which you gen
 tlemen thought was very good road
 some fifteen or twenty years ago Ev-
 erybody did. Those are the necessities E of the present condition.
 It took some nerve to throw away s5,-
 000,0O0 or $s,Ooo,000 worth of railroads & and to put $6,Ooo0OO or $7,Oo0,o0o more
 new ones in to do the same business.
 
 was done on the Union Pacific.
 \ Now then, we meet the problem in z this State. Since have been charged with the management of the Southern
 Pacific and all the lines included in
 that system (and you all know we are
 not only located in California, but that they extend from here to the southern
 part of the State, and through Arizona Ax Yr r 1T
 vada, and up to Oregon and to the
 East) by the perseverance of the off, cers of the Southern Pacific, we have placed the Improvements before the
 committee and have succeeded in get
 ting authority to expend this year, or E to begin Improvements this year which
 will amount to about $20, 100000, most
 of which will go into effect this year, < Sf 6r the results of it. That means the Improvement of the coast lines souther- ly from here to Los Angeles, the fin- ishing of the tunnel through Simi Pass (excuse me If I do not remember the names, as I have seen so much that it Is wonder I remember anything) the Improvement of the lines from Los Angeles east to El Paso; the elimina- tion of curvature, the improvement of bridges the laying of new rails fhe rails we had in that track weighed only fifty pounds to the yard, while we are replacing them with rails which weigh eighty pounds), and you know that means considerable improvement.
 But the most striking improvement will be, and the one which I think more interesting to you than aonther the in- provement which we are now carrying on on the eastern end of the Central Pacific. It is practically carrying out the policy which have just explained to you we adopted on the Union Pacific.
 We have on the division from Ogden to Reno, a distance of about 5s0 miles, the same condit ions which existed on the Union Pacific, only a little exag- gerated, little greater. We have grades on that line amounting to about ninety-seven feet to the mile. We have many curvatures amounting to ten de- grees. but we have adopted line which will reduce those grades from ninety seven and four-tenths to twenty-one feet Practically none at all. We re-
 luce the curva ture the same. From ten degrees to maximum of four degrees, and not very much of that. The elim- ainatfon of curvature on that line will amount to something like forty com plete circuits. That is, the train that formerly went round sixty times In making that 58O miles will now go scarcely twenty. Those are the physi- cal Improvements which we hope very soon to put into effect on the track it. self.
 Between November last and next July l we will have delivered to us, and are | now having delivered to us, additions | to the freight equipments amounting to | some eight thousand cars, adding to the | tonnage capacity in this six or eight | months about 20 to 22 per cent. of the tonnage capacity existing over the , whole line. Of course, being properly ! proportioned to the whole line, and the | whole equipment as my recollection is, | an addition of something like 400 per | cent. in that time.
 I have heard that great many com | plaints have been made because there | has not been enough oil freight capac- ity But gentlemen, the additional | equipments which have been ordered | for the Southern Pacific without much | being said about 1t will give us an ad- | ditional capacity of 12,000 900 gallons. In | addition to that we have commenced | system for storing oil at convenient l