Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-04-19
Perishable Oargoss Will Be Taken to Higher
Attitudes wit Dispatch
LOS ANGELES TO Be BROUGHT EASTWARD
New Road Will Out Five Hundred Miles
OF Run from Salt Lake
FIGHT WITH UNION PACIFIC QUITE ENDED
Many Miles of Rails TO BE Laid In
Extreme West Connecting with
Gould and Hartman
Roads.

NEW YORK, April 1s.-United States
Senator w. A. Clark of Montana today
gave out the frat detailed statement re-
garding the settlement Of differences be-
tween the Union Pacific interests and the
newly organized San Pedro, Los Angeles
& Salt Lake railroad.
year ago the two companies had rival
construction gangs at Mountain Valley
wash, each eager to forestall the other
and ready to resort to physical violence
to accomplish the end desired
VIII Build Into California.
Now Senator Clark says he and his ad-
herents have leased the Oregon Short Line
south of Salt Lake City and will construct
about 400 miles of road from Calientes,
New, westerly through Cajon pass to San
Bernardino, where connection will be made
with eghty-flve miles of track already in
operation between San Pedro, Los Angeles
and Riverside. Senator Clark added;
The San Pedro Los Angeles & Salt Lake
City road is authorized to issue $5O,OOOOO
bonds and has S25000,000 capital stock. 1t
has leased for ninety mine years the oregon
Short Line system south from Salt Lake
City to Calientes Besides the main nnie, me
most important Is the bennington cut-on,
extending from Salt Lake City to Deam-
ington. Utah, where is joins the oregon
From Calientes west have already had
forty miles of grading done: The road VIII
go through Mountain Valley wash, the
only available pass. The wash is the dry
channel of a mountain stream. At Ca1on
pass we will find a grade of 106 feet to the
/ mile, but only for a short distance, and
| the next highest grade is only seventy-nine
! feet. The cost will average $4,000 a mile'
Heavier Rails for Oregon Line.
The Oregon Short Line system under our
| control will be rebuilt with heavier rails
and the best of equipment. The road from
| San Pedro to Los Angeles and Riverside
now has the best Pullman and other rolling
| stock and the whole system Will be
| equipped similarly. Last year 10000 carloads
Of fruit were raised In the Los angeles
less than five years will produce 5O0O'
carloads. This new line will take frui
| trains from that section Immediately intC
q cooler altitude, desideratum In sucf
The distance from Salt Lake City TO LOT
Angsss y se MISS eE shls Rsw TSsIs STs Sns
4 Now trafflc from Salt Lake City and nortl
thereof reaches Los Angeles by way o
San Francisco not less than 300 miles. A
San Pedro there is building a S0OO,O
| breakwater and Wilmington bay Is beinl
dredged into fine harbor. This side o
! Riverside there is building an 800-foot con
crete bridge, the longest and with tn
highest span of any similar structure.
Our terminal facilities at Salt Lake Cit
will be equal TO the Oregon Short Line
and we Will connect with the Union Paclti
and Gould systems. The mineral wealtl
that our road will develop equals that o
No bonds have been issued on the 10
Angeles road so far completed and Sl5,OOOOu
of the s50.O0O,0OO bonded debt will be re
served for branch lines or kept in tn
, With me there are interested. anon
others, Senator kSarns and W 3; NC
and the Bemis bI others of st. Louis an
! my brother, J. Ross Clark of Los Angeles