Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
and service these railways stand first
among the electric surface railways Of
the United States.
TRANSPORTATION
SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES
G. SALT LAKE RAILWAY

G. SALT LAKE RAILWAY
The opening of the San Pedro. Los An
geles & Salt Lake route last spring
marked the beginning of a new era in
American mining history and in the de-
velopment of the territory which is trav
ersed by it's rails. the states of Utah,
Nevada and Southern California. That
Los Angeles is to benefit immensely, by
the new connections with the east Is
already apparent and no longer theory.
The building of the Salt Lake route was
in existence upon paper and in the minds
Of capitalists, but it remained for Sena-
tor w. A. Clark and his associates to
undertake and carry through the plans
undertaking for other moneyed men with
less daring than they. To bridge the
rock of the Great Divide was an under
taking which foreboded greater possible
financial loss than the capitalists before
them could reconcile to the possibilities
dauntless in the face of seeming insur-
mountable difficulties and pushed their
plans to completion in the spirit which
has always characterized the enterprises
with which they have been connected.
The completion Of this connecting link
between Los Angeles and the east was
duly celebrated by an exchange of visits
between the chambers of commerce in
Salt Lake and Los Angeles thus bring
ing the stranger into the
closer relation of friendship and cement
two cities which was established through
the building of the road.
The good results arising from these in
terchanges of courtesies between the
representative business men of the two
cities who were formerly strangers are
manifold and have already begun to
take root in the increased business reld
tions between the interests of the cities.
This is one grand result of the roads
opening, and 1t Is infnitesmal as COM
pared with the actual financial gain, to
although Los Angeles naturally expects
to profit greater from the building Of
the road than does Salt Lake, as the
great mining districts are near to Los
as their market place. The road Is re-
ferred to very often as the Clark road
because the senator is the largest stock
to its destinies and the man who has
held steadfastly to the star of hope
when difficulties presented themselves In
the way of completion and required a
stout heart as was his to push 1t through.
In building from the metropolis of Amer
ica's great dead sea to the City of Angels
and on to the future great harbor city
Lake route has opened. up territory
richer than any other similar stretch of
distance in the country. And possibilities
of an expansion of business for Los An
are of the brightest, being assured by
the already large increase in business
from these points which previously traded
but little in this city.
Tapping, as 1t does. the, rich goldhelds
to the east of Los Angeles as we'll as
other mining districts. immense ranch
mense trade to Los Angeles that would
otherwise go elsewhere, and the profit to
local merchants is inestimable. San
Pedro. too, when the harbor works are
constructed and ships make regular land
ings at that port from the orient, will
contribute such an immense business to
Los Angeles through the Salt Lake route
that no estimate at this time would
probably be within anything like its
reality. The building of the road was
rapid development Of the southwest and
It is destined to play leading role in
this development, and future prosperity
which is certainly coming to Southern
California especially and the southwest
in general through the agencies men
toned. The necessity of an outlet from
the coast TO the east, through the con-
nections via Denver, Salt Lake and Kan
sas City, has been the dream of the keen
business man who watches and waits,
yet realizes the dawn of a new day be-
help in preparing the way for renewed
activity along every line of progress and
improvement.
crops to the east and other portions of
the country. this route furnishes what
has for years been realized as a neces-
sity in enabling Los Angeles and its sur
rounding fruit territory to successfully
compete with other markets with ITS
superior fruit. The drawback has here
tofore been the length of time necessary
TO get the fruit to the faraway market
and in this regard the Salt Lake is to be
a distinct advantage in handling this por-
ton of the business of this region.
Fruits from this section are successfully
competing with the products of other
countries in markets reached via other
lines but the Salt Lake route opens the
way for the invasion of the Southern
California product into other markets
from which 1t has heretofore been barred
by reason of lack of transportation facili
ties Likewise, through its straightaway
east the Salt Lake opens up a route for
the tourist which is sure to become