Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-04-25
NEVADA'S GREAT
CENTRAL ROAD.
Senator Clark Wins 0ut-Purchase
of Oregon Short Line.

Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad COM
many all the lines and the equipment
Of the Oregon Short Line company
lying south of Salt Lake in Utah and
Nevada, including the bennington
cut. off. Senator Clark also states
that he has obtained ninety nine
wear lease ON the terminal facilities
in Salt Lake City in conjunction with
the Oregon Short Line. The property
will be transferred as soon as neces-
sary. The grading and track laying
will be commenced at Daggett, Cal,
and the road will soon be extended
from Calientes through Nevada.
From bennington to Calientes the
roadbed will be improved and relaid
with 70 pound rails. The western
terminus of the road is now being
operated from San Pedro harbor to
Ontario. and will soon be completed
and in operation as far as Riverside.
Senator Clark hopes to have the road
completed in about two years. The
senator gave out detailed state
ment regarding the differences be-
tween the Union Pacific interests and
the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt
Lake Railway company and the plans
of the latter company. A year ago
the two companies had rival construc-
ton gangs at Mountain Valley wash,
each eager TO forestall the other and
ready to resort to physical violence
to accomplish the end desired. Now
Senator Clark and his adherents have
leased the Oregon Short Line south
at Salt Lake City and will construct
about 400 miles OF road from Cali
entes, New, westerly through Calon
pass to San Bernardino, where con
nection will be made with about
eighty-fve miles of track already in
operation between San Pedro, Los
Angeles and Riverside.
'There has been a great deal
printed about the plans of the new
road, but no complete statement,
said Senator Clark, "has been made.
As president of the road believe /
ought to make everything clear.
There is now perfect harmony be-
tween the Union Pacific company and
the new interests The San Pedro,
Los Angeles and Salt Lake road is
authorized to issue $50, 900, 600 bonds
and has 1925, 900, 600 capital stock.
From Calentes west | have already
had forty miles Of grading done. The
road will go through Mountain Valley
wash, the only available pass. The
wash is the dry channel of mountain
stream. At Cajon pass we will find
grade of l06 feet to the mile, and
the next highest grade is only seven.
LYNNE feet The cost will average
$50, 900 a mile. The Oregon Short
Line system, under our control, will
be rebuilt with heavier rails and the
best equipment The road from Sar
Pedro to Los Angeles and Riverside
now has the best Pullman and other
rolling stock, and the whole system
will be equipped accordingly. Last
year $4,000 carloads of fruit were
raised in the Los Angeles section
and there are orchards which in less
than five years will produce 80, OO(
carloads This new line will take
fruit trains from that section imme
diately into cooler altitude, grea'
desideratum in such perishable ship
ping. The distance from Salt Lake
City to Los Angeles is 800 miles b,
this new route, and we intend Il
cover it in twenty-four hours. Nov
traffic from Salt Lake City aud nortl
thereof reaches Los Angeles via San
Francisco, not less than l 300 miles
At San Pedro there is building {
$4,000, 600 breakwater, and Whining
ton bay is being dredged into a fin'
harbor. This side of Riverside Their
is building an SCOTT, concrete bridge
the longest and with the highest spar
of any similar structure. We vii
connect with the Union Pacific an,
Gould systems. The mineral wealtl
thnt our rnnd will tan nnuals that q