The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-21
WILL LAY RAILS
FROM SALT LAKE
San Pedro Planning to Work
From This End Soon.
DIRECTORS ARE ELECTED
,,rrr PRESIDENT J. ROSS CLARK
DISCUSSES STATUS OF ROAD.
DIRECTORS ARE ELECTED

-t4r W'f 0I. snort Tune II IS rA-
..f.r.- men and teams will be put
,-rrr radug just as soon as the
de- sion is reached as to route
- president y. Ross Clark, who is
trs city, expressed the belief yes
-54v that The surW would soon
sufficiently eonplet 90 enable tne
directors -a nix The tie, and then
-st-r....r work Id be COM
-.sec.7. AT the annu meeting yes
..-ssv directors were elected for the
--s1i-e year. Practically no change
res mad. I1 the former board.
There is still considerable work TO
d. done ng the engineers" said Mr..
r.-- I'VE have three parties work
inc .r Nevada on the joint survey.
-5ag ought TO be through by TIE end
30 This month. and then we VIII bring
.1s 1arrt u1 90 this end of the line.
This u.U get the work along faster.
when th. engineers have completed
rraf- reports the route viz be finally
s..-'af and as soon as the right OF
nav is ra.ufau construction viii begin
q. several places. Grading and the
avirg of rails win go on at this end
4 the line. In Neva e and in Talifor-
ua.
The company has ordered 1900 tons
more Of rails from the United States
sfee. corporation. IL is expected that
tsa first consignment from Piltsburg
aHT arrive I'm California within three
v.ake The order from the Illinois
S.se. company for 5000 tons has been
delivered 10 is estimated that $4,000
.-r= will De needed to complete the
Inc Part of the rails from Pittshurg
f.H be- delivered IN Salt Lake.
Directors Elected.
Tire directors elected at the stock
155er- meeting Of the San Pedro Los
Angeles g. Salt Lake Railroad company
yesterday were as follows: William A.
Clark Butte: r. C. Kerens. st. Louis:
n $. Mccormick. Thomas Kearns and
Perry Heath salt Lake; Reed SmoOt.
Provo. =. w. Clark, Ophir; J. Ross
Clark. IT. f. Cibbon. T. r. Miller, F. K.
Rule and Ross W. Smith. Los Angeles
The directors of the Empire Con-
sruction company elected were: W. A.
Clark r.. g.. Kerens. J. Ross Clark,
Ross W. Saith, r. Y. GibbOn, T. F.
Miller. Clarence X. Mccormick, David
Keith and Reed SmOOt
The only change from the old board
Is the election Of Ross W. Smith IN
place Of George b. Leighton. Mr.. Smith
Is chief clerk i'm Vice President ClarK's
office I'M Los Angeles. Mr.. Leighton
lives iu ST. Louis. and the change was
made for convenience, making one
more resident director in Los Angeles,
so that a quorum can be more readily
obtained.
Mr.. clark expects to go over the two
routes out OF Salt Lake-One west Of
the Oquirrh range and the other along
the Jordan ON the east side of the
range. His object is to become per
soGdlly familiar with the two possible
roU,es
Work Accomplished.
The Railway Age, in a review Of the
work accomplished by the San Pedro
uf to the present time, saws:
I'm the financing and construction of
he San Pedro. Los Angeles & salt
Lake railway. the project recently IN
Jsrtaken 10y William A. Clark, the cop
Per king Of Montana and Arizona,
there are some features which make the
subject of especial interest. The De-
srnngS of the rOa have been detailed
On the Railway Age. Senator Clark
first became interested in the enter
Prise in July, 1900. After taking sew
era. months 10 study the situation. he
formed a corporation in February, 1901.
with capitalization of $4,000 600. al
subscribed The first active step taken
vas the purchase of the Los Angeles
Terminal. a small railway having fine
terminal facilities at the harbOr OF
S87 Pedro and about fifty miles OF road
lE operation. This road connected San
Pedro with Los Angeles. twenty-five
niles. with spurs extending up the val
.ey as far as Pasadena and Glendale.
Steps were Immediately taken 10
secure terminal facilities al Salt Lake.
ln1 surveys were started for locating
the lane between that city and Los
Angeles. orders were placed for 2O,vJ0
TOPS Of steel rails and 100000 ties.
Up t1 the present time a considerable
Proposition of the ties and about 5000
tons of rails have been delivered. There
are further deliveries OF rails almost
daily. and ties are arriving at the rate
q. one or two sh. loads a week. Twenty
carloads of steel bridge material are
already In hand. The surveys are near
N completed and mapped. and the
greater portion of the rirht of way
mas been secured. Orders have been
placed for several hundred box and
nat cars. "a considera bic number Of
..I' llEN anu lND ANAllfN ANAN
N.Su1H.ei trains. as fine as the Pull
man shops ran turn cut. Six large
passenger engines tseventy touS) are
also I'm course of construction. 1t is
propose. FOB build a roadway similar 10
nose .. .ha New York Central and
pennsylvania lines. with eighteen-foot
crown. rock ballasted, seventy five
round s'... rails. 31Jo ties 70 the mile,
.' s.7". bridges ana stone culTerts
'...0-''T. Tn other words. il VIII be
"'.' D., technically called permanent
''.s.TH.'tnU-' The rails are 90 be laid
WIN -"H.ates and continuous joints.
Part of Trunk Line.
Tho portion Of the Terminal road
'..'".0 San Pedro and Los Angeles,
"H'l ".I form a part of the trunk
-. A#s already been rebuilt in this
..a.I. About twenty-five miles Of
a east from Los angeles and eX-
'...aE fo Pomona. has been graded,
.- 0. This the work of construction
N soon 6. bee pushed. Some miles of
,.-..t have also been constructed in
On tH date no railway west of the
-..t RE in Kansas has been built on
~" permanent construction III e, and
,.- sag Pedro. Los Angeles q salt
-aA. ..ae viii set 'be pace in this re-
> .or the Pacific coast.
.e. distance on the line of sur
49,. between Salt Lake and Los An
H is slightly under $50 miles. The
road viii have q considerable ad-
over the Southern Pacific. and
1.-Hf advantage over the Santa Fe
81 ..Ht of distance in reaching Ms
UP. river points Its strong suit
"7t'r. viii be In grades. which viii
D.. considerably better than those on the
-' other lines named The Coast
-e divide. through the san Bernar-
mountains al Cajon pass, viii give
-7 easiest gradient of any OF the great
r.-s influential highways entering
-Nt country through which the new
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