Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-14

UT rs THE AIM and obJcct Of the
passenger department of every
up-to. date railroad to have al
least one striking advertising
. feature on the system which can
y be reproduced on paper and scat
tered broadcast throughout the
land 3ometimes, Ia fact general
", the subject depicted Is a scrap OF
striking scenery that can be seen from
tho ear window. while again 1t Is some
artificial attraction that has been oe-
vised by the hand OF man and the
brain of the engineer In the west INC
Denver & Rio Grando has its Royal
Gorge and hanging bridge that are
known the civilized world over the
Union Pacific has It's Echo canyon ana
Fish Springs cut; the Rio Grande
Western, the Salt Lake Temple ana
Castle Gate: the oregon Short Line
the Bear River canyon and the accom-
panylng steel trestlework; the Southern
Pacific, us snow sheds and soon the
Ogden-Lucln cut -off and the O. r.
& N. the Pillars OF Hercules ana the
Columbia river.
BIGGEST CONCRETE BRIDGE.
Not TO be outcome the san Pedro,
Los Angeles e. Fait Lake, or as II ~
now called for short The Salt Lake
Route" proposes to have the biggest
concrete bridge In America, II NOT III
the world, as It's star attraction. II has
already adopted the natural and scenic
feature, the San Bernardino Arrow, for
its trademark Some Eastern roads
would deem that glory enough MOI
SO the Salt Lake Route. IL Is going
TO have the biggest concrete proposition
extant and Is going to have everyone
talking about II. President w A. clark
and his associates on the directorate
are putting In over half a million dol
lars on that yladuct. AS an advertising
and a business proposition IT VIII be a
standing ad" that Will pay dollar Tor
dollar invested every year. the san
Bernardlno Arrow and the santa Ana
bridge will be, to use popular phrase,
q hot combination.
HANDSOME DEPOTS.
But not only in the direction of ex-
pensiye viaducts Is the San Pedro
branching out All the depots that
have been erected In California are
along the same lines--neat structures
built OF concrete and rooted with red
thing. There are no such shacks that
grace. or otherwise, such towns as Ne
phi, Milford, and Provo along the
western end of the Salt Lake Route
The accompanying illustration OF the
depot at Pomona gives some ldea OF
what may be expected In Utnh when
the main line through to California Is
completed and the Utah division re-
Gently acquired from the oregon snort
line Is overhauled and brought up to
date along the lines Instituted on the
line now building in California,
NEARLY 1000 FEET IN LENGTH.
While considerable has been print
cd on the subject few laymen
In tItah, or for that matter In CAN
fornia. are aware of the engineering
wonders that are under way AZ Varl-
Gus points OF the Salt Lake Route, The
star feature is the concrete bridge
which spans the Santa Ana river nc
noint about Ave miles southwest OF the
town OF Riverside, Cal. This arched
viaduct which Is now practically COM
Melted is 9Si feet In length. The strue-
ture il II feet wide and about 30 feet
hioh above low water. There are eight
arches OF Sc feet span, having a radius
of i3ls feet, and rise of 36'9. Al eaeh
end are retaining wall approaches con-
Meeting with the abutment piers py
means of SSh feet arches
OVER A BLOCK IN LENGTH.
To bring this huge AFFAIR down TO
every day Salt Lake objects, perhaps