The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-24
SAN PEDRO LINE
HAS FEW EQUALS
Simon Bamberger Enthusiastic
Over the Road.
GAP is NOW SIX MILES
ACTIVITY IN MANY LINES IN
THE NEW COUNTRY.

Senator Simon Bamberger has Just re-
tured from trip ever the Salt Lake
division of the San Pedro, Los Angeles
& Salt Lake railrOad--that is. that part
Of it between Salt Lake and a point
beyond Las Vegas known as Erie-and
he says that in all his experience he
mas never seen new road in such per-
feet condition.
The scenic views below CaIiente, he
says, are equal 70 those on any of the
colorado lines The roadbed is sixteen
Ieet wide, as heavily belIasted as the
New York Central or the PennsN-J2a mia
MAN line. and every five miles there is
8VW-foot siding. This side of Modena
l per cent to 8 per cent grade. and men
are now building coal chutes and water
Tanks "a, several Of the latter to hold 90 :
700 gallons each.
Opens New Mining Camp.
a a new s mining country will be deveI-
4alIeady freight and stage lines are be-
ing ing, est abIished between Las Vegas and
points IS in fine shape for trucking. with
plenty of water at numerous places for
mon and animals
me Armour people are putting I'M a
cold storage and ice-making plant at Las
vegas, and they will be in a condition
shortly to supply all that territory with
Ice ds wei as serve the refrigerator cars
ana passenger cars coming from or eo-
ing TO tae coast. Mr. RamberEer believes
t tT1n tne sap of six miles between the
Two divisions will be rallied within the
next TWO weeks and that then the road
will be open for he reception of freight.
Men Who Got No Work.
In connection with the building of the
~ r, t9ap a man who signs himself l..
Angeles ui to his SEM ga, letter from Los
wee president of the Utah Federation
OF Labor, in which he says that man
named Joseph Pankivich had just come
nd
Dec. Il he paid $500 for a Job. AT Dix
on employment agency in Salt Lake,
10 60 ~ 20 Las Yegas with sixty other men
were not allowed to sleep in tbe cars
Twenty cents was charged for q CUP of
gas. where they were dumped On the
desert. The foreman of the camp tod
them he had no work for them. that he
10 90 anything for them. They are now
wandering over the country and have no
mones,."
Other Side of the Story.
When this story was shown to r c.
DUNBAR chief clerk in the assistant cher
engineers office Of the San Pedro road,
he said:
There is a certain kind of work to
De done along the line, and for that
kind of work we employ only the roug n
est kind of labor. The men are hired
through DiXon's agency, and they are
paid from A-75 to 800 per day Many
of the men who are sent down the line
have no intention to engage in work
They merely take advantage of the offer
TO obtain free transportation ard as
soon as they are on the scene they skip.
Ihen they hang around the camps and
Try TO get meals free until such time as
they can find way of continuing their
journey TO the coast 1t is that class
of men that has caused ali this trouble.
They are hOboes of the worst tyne and
II they cannot get food free at the
camps they try to steal it or course
the contractors won't stand for that, ana
il was only a week or two weeks ago
that they had TO organize a vigilance
committee to protect the camps and the
honest men who want to work. There II
work to be done down there. and we
want men TO do il. but il is no place
for men with no money or for men who
merely go to the front just to take adj
vantage of the free transportation.