The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-04-20
GOT PART OF
SHORT Line
Senator Clark of Montana
Acquires Big Railroad
interests
HE WILL EXTEND THE LINE
Road Will Run Through Nevada
--New Management Will
Be Independent

BUTTE, Mont. April 1S.-A Miner
special from New York announces au-
thoritively that Senator w. A. Clark
states that he has purchased for the
/ San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake
Railroad Company all the lines and
/ the equipment of the Oregon Short
/ Line lying south of Salt Lake in Utah
and Nevada, including the Leaning
ton cutoff Senator Clark has also
obtained a ninety-nine year lease on
the terminal facilities in Salt Lake
Short Line. The property will be trans
ferred as soon as necessary. The grad
ing and track-laying will be com
menced at Daggett, Cal, and the road
will soon be extended from Calientes
through Nevada From bennington
to Calientes the roadbed will be i'm
proved and relaid with 75-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 has hopes
to have the road completed in about
two years.
SALT LAKE, April 1S.-The con-
summation of the long pending ne
gotiations between the Oregon Short
Line and Senator w. A. Clark and his
associate owners of the San Pedro,
Los Angeles and Salt Lake road gives
into the hands of the latter 444 miles
of road south of Salt Lake. 344 miles
of main line, running from Salt Lake,
to Calientes, Nevada and 144 miles of
spurs. In this is included the new
Lexington cutoff 166 miles long, which
operates as part of the main line of
the San Pedro from Salt Lake to Los
Angeles and which will save seventy
miles of difficult road building.
THE Oregon Short Line will have
absolutely no partnership nor interest
in the managemnt of the San Pedro
road" said Senator Thomas Kearns,
one of the largest stock holders, to-
night.
The San Pedro road will open up
enormous fields of iron and coal, both
bituminous and anthracite, in South
ern Utah and Nevada. 1t is announced
that the new road will have no close
traffic agreements with roads east or
Salt Lake, but would be an opening
gateway for all roads.
SENATOR CLARKS STATEMENT.
NEW YORK, April 1S.-Senator
w. A. Clark of Montana gave to the
Associated, Press the following de-
tailed statement regarding the differ
ences between the Union Pacific IN
terests and the San Pedro, Los An
geles and Salt Lake railway COM
pany and the plans of the latter COM
pany:
year or two ago the two COM
panies had rival construction gangs
Mountain Valley Wash, each eager to
forestall the other and ready to resort
to physical violence to accomplish the
end desired.
i. Now Senator Clark and his adhe-
rents have leased the Oregon Short
Line south of Salt Lake City and will
construct about 400 miles of road from
Calientes, Nevada, westerly through
Caion pass to San Bernardino, where
connection will be made with about
IS miles of track already in operation
between San Pedro, Los Angeles and
Riverside.
There has been 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 per-
feet harmony between the Union Pa
cific company and the new interests.
"The San Pedro, Los Angeles and
Salt Lake road is authorized to issue
s5C, ,O0O, 900 in bonds, and has s25,OOo'-
600 capital stock. Ii has leased Tor
ninety-nine years the Oregon Short
Line system south of Salt Lake City
to Calientes, a railway system OF 22S
miles. Besides the main line there are
two shorter lines taken over. Most
important Is the bennington cut OF,
extending from Salt Lake to Leaning