The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-12
And the Awful Fate Predicted for It's Author.
MUCH CASH FOR SHORTLME.
Heavy Expenditures Be Made nermountan Road-Mons
to Be Spent on the Southern Pacifc-Sat Lake
Center of Improvement Plans.

n MAHA, Jan. 1.-THE plan Of rail
I road campaigning TO be carried
out by the Union Pacific road
during 1902 was given out officially to-
day, and viii result in the expenditure
Of from $25OOO.OOO to 100000 in i'm
provement and extensions. It is a
continuance of the general plan of put
ting the road in the best possible ply
steal condition between Omaha and
San Francisco, but efforts this year
will be directed almost wholly to that
part Of the road west of Salt Lake and
Ogden, and the Oregon Short Line.
Twenty nilIions alone will be used in
Improvements Of these lines. and the
remainder in pushing the extension of
the Salt Lake-Los Angeles branch Of
the Oregon Short Line, which will be
nearly or quite completed before Jan
1 next Particular attention, however,
will be given TO the extensions and i'm
provements on the parts Of the Short
Line which compete with the Hill sys-
tenn.
After Oriental Trade.
The prime object, it is said, is to put
the road in position to control the
immense trade with the Orient that
is expected to be opened by the new
conditions in the east and in Hawaii.
This trade is already beginning to
reach formidable proportions. and the
Union Pacific, it is stated, is preparing
to meet the competition of the north
ern lines.
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Omaha and Ogden has been put in
prime condition by the expenditure of
several million dollars in improvements
annually for the past five years. The
greater part of this money has been
used in Strengthening crooks and cut
ting immense hills and tunnels, thus
reducing grades to a degree that can
be overcome by the large engines with
out assistance.
The Union Pacific has long since
/ decided that il must have a fast line
TO the coast gateway in order to re-
/ tain its holQ on the Oriental trade, -
said the official who explained the pro-
! posed plan. THAT traffic is becoming
| greater every year, and it was some
| years ago that this scheme for a COM
plete oYerhauling Of the system was
adopted
Work on Southern Pacific.
The plan has been steadfastIy ad-
/ hered to, 50 that now there is ne
4 finest kind of railroad from Council
| Bluffs to Ogden. For that much of
/ the way we make fast time. but as
/ soon as we get past ogden we are
/ compelled to slow up and maintain the
/ reduced speed all the rest Of the jour
! ney. Improvements on this line will
/ be in the nature of reducing grades.
! taking out certain curves and lessening
others and reballasting the entire line
These improvements will fix us for
! the Oriental trade, which is something
( enormous, especially 10 and from the
! Philippines and Japan. They viii also
/ cover central California satisfactorily.
( The other arm of the work. meanwhile,
/ will be looking toward the improve
/ ment of facilities Of getting into the
! southern California business. The
! Southern Pacific Improvements are far
\ the most important, since they have
/ bearing directly on the gateway bus1-
/ ness, but this extension Of the Oregon
/ Short Line to Los Angeles is also a bic
i proposition
1t Will require between 500 and 6Ol
/ miles more to reach Los Angeles. and
! IL is hardly proba BILE that this can be
/ completed in 1902, although the effort
/ will be made