Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1903-05-01
LARK'S LATEST
DEAL

he LuS Angeles IL HDle 10 Stnti
authoritatlyely that Senator w A
Cars has actually purchased tht
Traction properly aud that the pay
ment of 500, 900, by j. Ross Clark
to ". $. HOOK, president aud gen.
eral manager of the Traction com.
paly, wis not for the purpose oil
securing an option on the property,
but was the first cash deposit intend
ed to bind bono fde sale.
1t is aflirlned further in most posi-.
tive terms by Senator Clark's repre-
ssntatives that Senator Clark has
made no alliance with Hartman or
any other railroad interest. tits as
serted that Clark is acting solely i'll
his own interests and that Whatever
line be has already acquired aud
will later on obtain, will be CONTROL
ed aud operated independently Of
tue outside roads insofar as actual
ownership is concerned. Associated
dispatches from New York Salt Lake
aud Butte, Mont, last night an
nounced authoritatively that Senator
Clark himself states the he has pur-
chased for his company all the lines
and equipment of the Oregon Short
Line, lying south of SIT Lake III
Utah and Nevada including the
bennington cut off. Senator Clark
also states that he bus obtained Il
nidety-Iine year lease on the ter
minal facilities in Salt Like City, il
conj nctiou with the Oregon Short
Line. The property will be trans
ferred as soon as necessary.
There is nothing to indicate in the
dispatch that Clark bus entered into
any deal with Hartman for the use
of the Short line. The senator AYERS
that be hns purchased the road out
right, which of course means that
Clark is to operate the line as part OF
his Suit Lake system, and, as he has
maintained from the start, indepen-
dent of any other road"
One of Mr. Clar 8 Representative,
who has heen taking an active part
in the blanket franchise matter, ,spaal
ing Of the Traction matter last mig {
sud:
, "The negotiations which have
been on for some time with Mr..
HOOK of the Traction company have
finally terminated in the purchase of
the railroad property, and as an in
dication of good flitn, the initial
payment of 500, 900 has been made
This is not to cover an option, ds has
been reported. The price which Mr.
Clark is to pay for the Traction
property am NOT at liberty to state
but it is considerable.
"The repeated assertions in the
press and elsewhere that Mr.. Hrri-
man is allied with Senator Clark is
wholly without foundation. Mr..
Hartman is in no way interested
either in the 3-cent fare franchise or
in the purchase of the Traction
property. 1t is Clark, and Clark
alone. For some time it has been
Senator Clark's desire to get into the
street railway business, in order that
he might combine his line with his
steam road. He has realized that
the conditions demanded that LIE
electrize his interurban roads and
have central distributing points for
that traffic. OF course, if lie should
be successful in obtaining the
blanket franchise some sort OF an
agreement with the Southern Pacific
aud other roads might be possible.
Asked if clark would want to re-
tain the Traction property in the
event that the blanket franchise is
refused, the copper kings represeh-
tative declared that be would hold
Cnto the Hook property Just the
some. as there is no douot that the
Traction would give the SILT Lake
line certain amount of street rail-
way facilities that it would not have
were the company to be un nler some
other mau's control.
Whether or not the purchase
covers Hook Is interubln lines, ,owhe
aud operated by separate corpora
ton could not bs learned positively
but the general supposition is that
the deal includes both the city ana
intrrurban systems.
The Traction company's man
franchise thoroughfares are HILL
Sixteenth and Thirl streets, Win
feeders that extend from University
station to the Southern Pacihc as
we'll as TO the Santa Fe aud Salt
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