Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-23
,..ld Secures Terminals in San
Diego, CAL, by Purchase
OF Small Road.
ruANcE IN ORIGINAL PLANS.
,.,.,ioo Of the Calling OF Of Western
Pacific Suryeyors-Harrimau to
Save Ogden Route.

~, latest Western Pacific story Is to
II. Moot that surveying operations will
:. assumed at an early date and that
4, real objective point of the Gould
r.,srn outlet is San Diego. Whether
"a, Gould and Hartman have ar
I.., al an understanding regarding
=. nyoiected line from Salt Lake to
s,c Francisco remains to be seem
n,,pite the fact that the Western Pa
~, has secured terminals in Oakland,
81. Francisco and Stockton the story
y, b.an freely circulated during the
pa ron,h 10 the effect that the West
pacific will not invade the Southern
~ LILAC territory embraced in the Ogden
route, .,,,>,r ,>,urprNcre
~. recent activity on the part OF
,,a,s IN charge Of construction on the
ssr Pedro Los Angeles & Salt Lake Is
' sa,a,sed n this story be true. There
siv also he some significance In the
.,,, hat President II. p. Ripley OF the
s'r,, Fe system, and Il. II. Hartman
y ,Ss Southern Pacific both happen to
y. In San Francisco today. The fact
NJ, ,he San Pedro Is to use the Santa
:, tracks from Daggett west In itself
~, circumstance which puzzled
,,nv some months ago, and had but
S.s solutlon-that the Santa Fe and
hartman interests had IN a measure
,ombIned against common enemy.
OGDEN ROUTE.
ma policy Of Hartman since he
aimed control OF the four big systems
Ne been to build up the ogden route to
Gs deiriment OF the Sunset Route, at
is,u 50 claimed the minority stock
S,dsrs insults instituted about year
an The ogden route, since the
rsIon Pacific Improvements In Wyom-
h, and Utah, tho Ogden-Lucin cut-on
"a INC track changes In Nevada were
completed. IS the shortest trans-con.
ensntal line for the rapid handling OF
srsntal traiic. The move on the part
y,be western Pacific and the Moret
M, made II possible Ger Hartman to
Aye serious rival in the field.
According to report the promoters OF
ma western Pacific have been induced
"a change their original plans with the
result that the ogden route VIII not be
uralleled and the Western Pacific VIII
isude Southern California, as rival
% me Sunset Route or the lesser OF
Two great evils
GOULD BUYS A ROAD.
The city Of San Diego in lower Cali
,ornia has one Of the finest natural -har-
bo-s In the world and with the Open
l,R OF the Panama canal viii be one OF
M great cities Of the country. Already
M announcement has been made that
there will be a huge steel and iron plant
erected there which will draw from the
mines Of Iron county Utah, and FUR
tAsr, that Gould has secured Il terminal
10 that city through the purchase Oh
San Diego. Cuyamaca g. Eastern,
rad 25.2 miles in length, running from
he harbor tdewater TO Foster, Cal, on
he edge Of the desert. with this an
nouncement comes the solution OF the
recent activity on the part OF the pro-
noters Of the Salt Lake Route, the
chamber Of commerce and other Los
Angeles commercial organizations, In
tho direction OF bringing pressure TO
bear on Congress TO complete the work
On the San Pedro harbor by approprlat-
Ing tho money for this purpose In lump
sum- The fear that Gould and the stan
dari OH interests behind him may In
igce Congress 10 abandon the scheme
II favor Of San Diego, which Is nat
usl harbor, calls for some strenuous
Mstlng.
VIA SALIVA CUTOFF.
lisa toss up whether San Diego or
an Pedro will be the coaling station
ior the vessels passing through the
Panama canal. II 1t goes to Gould the
Utah Fuel company Will have Its hands
lull supplying the necessary fuel,
Briefly summed up, the story Is that
Gould Is going TO practically parallel
he San Pedro via the Salina cutoff,
taylng Salt Lake on the north, the
non and coal fields are TO b greatly
i.ytloped, and, for the time being,
Hartman has Offset the inv aslon OF
ne Ogden Route. II Is belle ed that
Gould having acquired a teri ANAL at
van Diego, will tqdeavor TO KEEP con-
vol Of the situation.
II Is stated, also, that a part Of the
,lge scheme is TO ultimately build
lom Ogden 10 San Francisco, as first
Intended and thence down the coast
. Los Angeles and San Diego, The
PRESENT strIngency OF the money mar
icy coupled with the fact that the Pam
ana canal Is not yet built, however,
.ac@ this important move years In