Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-03
The SAN PEDRO
SHOWS ITS HAND.
Files Official Map of Route Selected in
Tooele and Juab Counties - Work
To Commence in May.

lIeved that Los Angeles and ST. Louis
stockholders win be lust as prompt
in providing their portion Senator
Kearns paid his pro rata In Yesterday
before leaving for Washington.
II Is confidently given out that with
IN sixty days after March l. the whole
of the San Pedro line from Salt Lake
10 Los Angeles will have been decided
upon, maps filed and q great Zeal Of
the work under way
OUT OF SALT LAKE.
The survey was adopted by resolu-
ton at the meeting Of the board of d.
rectors of the San Pedro at Los AN
geles December 26 az the definite
location" For the major part the
twenty miles of the route surveyed and
adopted passes through unoccupled
land, consequently the railroad promo
ters have no fear in making the route
public that they Will be required 10 pay
eNh0rbltant prices from private owners
for their right-of-way.
From glance at the map filed yes
terday every indication points to the
fact that the route which viii be fn-
ally selected win leave Salt Lake City
across Cannon's farm and thence TO
Garfield through Tooele county to the
initial point which Is situated about
thirteen miles east Of Vernon and half
q mile east Of the Oregon Short Line
tracks. Thence II follows the route in
dicated to Tintic This route through
Rush valley will tap the Stockton and
Ophir mining districts In which Sena-
tor Clark Is heavily Interested, The
route south from Tlntlc is Of course
still more or less indefinite and will not
he made public until the next location
mans are filed.
1t has sometimes been asserted that
the road would bear sharply to the
west across the desert to the Deep
Creek country and the rich gold and
copper deposits In the region Of Ibapah
to then strike southwest across Neva-
da but II seems safe TO say that the
San Pedro will build only a branch to
tap the Deep Creek district,
Indications point to the belief that
the route which win be selected will
parallel the Oregon Short Line cut
of TO bennington TO make connections
with the Phoebe branch road over which
there has been such legal fight since
the famous chaln-at- he-end-of-a-
wagon survey last year
Surveyors are still In the field below
TlntIc and are expected to be at work
for still another month before the final
locations are decided upon The San
Pedro legal department feels confident
that they will win I'm the map dispute
over the prior location near and across
the Utah state line and signs point to
the main line passing through Willard,
Beaver and Iron counties on Its way
through 10 the const.
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
For the benefit of those who are In
teTested In the exact location Of the
adopted route, as filed in the land office,
the following description over the sigma
lures OF Vice President j. Ross Clark
and Secretary T. It, Miller appears on
the maps fled
From the initial point in the south
east quarter Of section so, township
south, range west Salt Lake base of
meridian; thence In southerly direc-
tion on surveyed land length of
S.0Ol miles TO a point in the south line
of the northwest quarter of section 30,
township 2 south range west, from
which stone at the southwest corner
OF said section S5 bears south 10 deg,
"A min. west ems feet; thence in a
southerly direction on unsuryeyed land
a length OF 0566 miles TO a point I'm the
south line OF township south range
west. from which said stone at the
southwest corner Of said section 80 as
aforesaid bears due west 2,OS6 feet;
thence I'm a southerly direction on sur
veyed land n length of ll.iSS miles to
terminal point in the northwest quar-
ter of section rs, township II south
range west. from which stone at the
northwest corner OF said section %
bears north 400 deg, 80 min. 30 sec. west
1850 feet, q total length Of twenty
miles.