The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-18
KERENS SPEAKS
OF POSSIBILITIES
OF THE NEW LINE


OF POSSIBILITIES
OF THE NEW LINE
Senator Clark. interrupted by ap-
/ plause and cheers after practically
/ every sentence, then spoke. After the
sounds of approval Of Senator Clarks
/ speech had died away, R c. Kerens
| OF St Louis, a vice president Of the
| salt Lake route, was introduced by the
/ POSTMASTER. After a few light prelinE-
mary remarks. he spoke as follows:
/ am graufied to be present at this re-
ception and banquet to the honored guest
OF the evening, Senator Clark and I re-
joiee with all assembled in e5tendjne- TO
| him the fullest measure of credit for the
determined and business-iike part he has
/ taken in what now promises to be a
splendid fulfilment Of the undertaking.
The construction of new line of trans
| portauon from this intermountain region
| with salt Lake as the terminal point, to
/ the Pacific ocean at San Pedro was no
small enterprise. Its magnitude is fully
/ justified by the opening Of new avenue
| of trade and commerce, the DEVELOPMENT
OF practically unknown section that
promises to be g mighty empire in extent
and wealth, linking with bands of steel
/ three great states of the Union bringing
into closer relationship and bonds of
/ friendship and kinsmanship of trade in
the exchange Of products and commod-
/ tiles. Shall we not look forward to the
approach of that time when daily inter
course with our neigkbors in southern
California will be q pleasing realization?
An incident oDce og,o,5rregS =, ~ --o,,s,1c-
of the Cotton Belt line of railway in the
| Mississippi valley which linked the city
Of st. Louis with a thousand miles or
| more of Texas. the speaker on that oc-
casion said:
st. Louis sons will marry our daugh-
ters and our Texas boys viii marry your
st. Louis girls
The Cotton Belt road was a very pop
ular line to travel May this be dupli-
Gated with our brethren of Los Angeles.
Possibilities of New Line.
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veloping the hidden wealth of Utah and
/ Nevada are at this time beyond the power
! of comprehension. indeed the imaginative
genius of man must be brought to bear
and even that cannot over-do. Nevada,
1 as in the past viii in future be the
/ treasury box OF the nation and its vast
area of mountain and desert viii in time
be one great mining district, as camp aft
| er camp has already dotted the maps as
1 mineral districts.
I have but lately, in company with my
mining friends, Senator kearns and David
Helt9, and the veteran editor. Perry
Heath, visited the famous Tonopah mines
/ They are great IN the development al
ready shown; the ore is rich and the
quantity of mineral on the dump and in
/ sight al that Camp. less than three wears
since its discovery, is wonderful to be-
| hold and bids fair to rival the once IA
nous ComStOck group at Virginia City
| Millions in value of ore is already on the
dump and blocked out in the several
great mines at Tonopah, and all that is
needed to give this wealth to the nation
and the world is transportation and fuel
the San Pedro Los Angeles & Salt Lake
railroad can furnish both, Salt Lake
! California Will furnish in trade food sup
plies and all the delicacies of the seasons;
thus the wealth Of the mines of now dis
tant Nevada, because of want of railroad
transportation, win be distributed.
The same may be said Of southern Utah,
whose mineral wealth is in immense pro-
portions of not only the precious metals.
but It's inexhaustible fields Of iron and
coal. Iron county alone Captly named)
] n IV he VIII
nation. In agriculture, also Nevada will
/ vet be made to blossom as a garden. With
I irrigation arid deserts will be reclaimed
and maintain in happy homes millions Of
/ people
Beneficial Irrigation Law.
Let me say right here in this presence
that Senator Clark and Senator Kearns,
| by their voices and their efforts, helped
| on the. good work until there was placed
upon the statute books of the nation the
"a" "1i.cA wiz III time oe MOI
/ far-reaching in Its beneficial effects in
the states west of the Mississippi river
than any law since the enactment of the
people and settled5Gp the nations TONS domains
and made our country prosperous and
great If I were talking politics I would
/ say: ITO the Republican party belongs
the credit for the enactment of this splen-
did irrigation law" but I am not. Trans
POLIId ~ Ilnes IS our common purpose
object Of our thoughts tonight.
am informed that Senator Clark has
recently been chosen the honored presi-
/ dent of the National Irrigation congress
/ No more worthy leader can be found IN
| der whose inspiration the great work Will
| be carried on until the impOunding of the
/ waste waters in thousands of reservoirs
will be accomplished and the desert val
] leys west of the Rocky mountains will
| be waving fields of green.
Thus will our irrigation rivulets run
| From lands of snow to lands of sun"
San Pedro harbor-were I to dwell much
/ on this subject I fear Il would be too
/ much of an indulgence in personal recoI-
/ and greater honor to the guest of the
| evening. who took hold of this railroad
/ enterprise when my associates and my
SELF were struggling TO carry forward an
undertaking conceived by us more than
| a dozen of years ago This was field
/ unOccupied ana the establishment of the
/ harbor at San Pedro gave life and vigor
] to our project as means of transporting
| the products of the intermountain regions
! to the sea and the commerce which viii
/ be brought In by water transportation for
distribution throughout this section and
4 to the east in Arizona and New Mexico
! and north of Utah.
| Senator Clark was quick to see the pos
! Sibilities and with that vigorous method
| for which he is known throughout the
( business world declared it to be his pur-
/ pose in joining usSO create a transpOrta-
/ ton line the best that could be construct
/ ed across the three states and thus aid
J in the development of its mineral and
I other resources, of which he was best in
! formed because OF personal researches
! and comprehensive knowledge of this
/ western territory.
Praise For His Action.
All are here tonight to honor and con-
! graduate Senator Clark of Montana for
/ his action, and let me say, without dis
| para cement to anyone. despite strenuous
| opposition on the one hand and tempting
/ offers of handsome profits to yield up the
/ enterprise in its incipiency on the other,
| the senator declared ii to be his deter
! mination to create in the interest of the
/ people as a first consideration first
/ class line Of railroad from San Pedro to
] Salt Lake City. and that no consideration
/ would divert his purpose.
| 7 may be pardoned, in conclusion. if
/ urday, in company with many gentlemen
! of the chamber OF commerce of Los An
geles in visiting the government works
! at San Pedro's outer h2rbor and there
! behOIding, nearly half completed, the
| magnificent breakwater. with its mas
| sive proportions, great sea wall OF
| granite several thousand feet already
| completed above high tide, with appro-
] pirate coping of solid granite blocks. This
| breakwater, when completed, in connec-
ton with the peculiar formation of the
| a great outer harbor of protection, is
/ sufficient to anchor IN safety a thousand
/ ships
/ Added to this is the inner harbor of
/ commerce of ample extent with thirty
/ feet in depth of water TO the wharf lines
I of the Salt Lake railroad, the name by
which our railroad. as a compliment to
| Salt Lake City, its objective point, has
come to be known The wharf frontage