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mining have been only partially de-
veloped- In many parts of Utah the
farmers get their fuel by going to the
adjacent mountains and digging out the
coal necessary for domestic use. The
coal mines of Carbon and Emery coun-
ties alone produced 1,S11,000 tons in
1905, valued at nearly $11, 100000. A
great area of Il, 500 acres in the north
ern part of Utah is now growing sugar
beets. There are beet sugar factories
at Lehi, Garland, Springfield, Provo and
Bingham Junction. They produced 49,
100000 pounds of sugar in 1905, worth
s2,0oO,oo0. The main plant is at Lehi
There all the refining is done. At the
other factories the juice is merely
crushed out Of the beets and then it
is pumped through great iron pipes a
distance of more than twenty miles to
the refinery at Lehi. At the beginning
of the year 1906 there were 100000
head Of cattle and 3,265,000 head OF
sheep in the State of Utah Dairying
is very profitable business, and
creameries are in constant operation
in all the well-settled counties.
Colorado has latterly gained the dis
tinction, even over California. of being
the foremost producing mineral State
in the Union. During the forty-six
years from 1859 to the beginning OF
1905 Colorado's mines produced in gold
silver, lead, copper and zinc an aggre-
gate of $685., 900, and during 1905
this yield was increased by SAT, 100000
which was gain of s7,000,000 over the
preceding year. More than $25,000,00o
of the product of 1905 was treated in
the smelters at Denver. Pueblo, Lead
vile, Durango, Salida and Argo. Colo
rado also possesses an inexhaustible
coal supply. Geological reports show
that the coal-bearing strata cover 40,-
600 square miles, or one-third Of the
area of the State. Today Colorado
ranks fifth among the coal-producing
States of the country More than 1,000,-
900 tons of Colorado coal are shipped
each year into Utah. Kansas, Nebraska,
New Mexico, Texas, Montana and Cali
fornia- In 1873 the yield was 10000
tons. In 1905 it had grown to S,S05,000
tons. And that is but the beginning.
How the beet sugar industry stands
today in Colorado may be inferred from
fthe figures in 1899 (first years yield),
500, 600 worth; in 1905 (sixth year,,
$s,ls5,0 900 worth Of sugar.
so much for the resources CT the
Utah and Colorado districts that are to
be linked to California with Gould
System rails. They indicate the enor-
nous possibilities of freights to be
handled. They hint at something OF
the future OF the West that is to be.
"sCENIC LINE OF THE WORLD
But there is something of greater in
terest to the average traveller. That
Rocky Mountain region is wild and
grand and awful in its picturesque
passes. The Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad is known everywhere as ''the
scenic line of the world" The canyon
of the Arkansas with its Royal Gorge
the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, the
canyon of the Rio de las Animas, the
canyon of the Rio Grande-all are as
grand and insniring as ANYTHING OF
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their kind in Switzerland and far more
varied in character. The walls of these
American canyons traversed by the
Gould System scale 1000 feet in per-
pendicular height. In Europe the high
est Inhabited spot is the Hospice of
st. Bernard in Switzerland 5000 feet.
In Colorado the mining town of Lead
willie, with $4,000 inhabitants, is 10,200
feet above sea level, and there are
lesser mining camps still higher, some
of the gold and silver being taken out
at towns more than $4,000 feet above
the level of the ocean. The highest
thoroughfare for wagons in all Europe
is said to be the Stelvio road in Swift
zerland, 9170 feet But in Colorado
{ the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
goes through three Rocky Mountain
passes that make the Switzerland wag-
on road seem nothing to boast of. At
Fremont Pass the rails are at an alti-
tude of 1923 feet, at Marshal Pass
at an altitude Of 1886 feet and at Ten
nessee Pass at an altitude of 1920
feet And a terminal of one of the Rio
Grandes branches up to a mine attains
an altitude of 1882 feet, which is the
record as the highest traction railroad
in the world.
Not only is there grandeur of scenery
along this link in the Gould System
and sublimity of view, but the traveller
over the Gould transcontinental lines
finds in Colorado mineral springs that
by scientific comparison and analyses
equal in many cases and surpass in
others some of the famous mineral
springs of France, Germany, Austria
and Switzerland. It is only a matter
of education and time before the Amer
lean public will thoroughly understand
these attractions of the home country.
And as the flow Of summer travel turns
more abundantly to the beauties and
scenery and resorts of the only partly
appreciated West that tide will bear
its settlers, and California will begin
to come more and more into her own.
LINKS IN THE SYSTEM
From San Francisco to Salt Lake
City the Gould System will bear the
name Western Pacific. From Salt Lake
City to Pueblo, Colo, 1t is the Rio
Grande System with its network Of
supplementary lines and branches.
From Pueblo to st. Louis it is the
Missouri Pacific. From st. Louis
through Arkansas to Texarkana in
tain and Southern. From Texarkana
westward to Ell Paso it is the Texas
and Pacific From Fort Worth on the
Texas and Pacific to sGalveston on the
Gulf it is the International and, Great
Northern. From Texarkana southwark
to New Orleans, at the mouth Of the
Mississippi, it is vet another line. From
Kansas City, Omaha and st. Louis east
ward by two routes, with reaching
branches, it is the Wabash System. The
rib extending from Kansas City east
ward through Fort Wayne, Toledo and
Cleveland ends temporarily at Pitts
burg, but it is very soon to have for its
Atlantic terminal the city of Baltimore.
on Chesapeake Bay. The other great
rib from Omaha and st. Louis north
ward and eastward. with many feeders.
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for the Central Pacific; by producing
road so nearly free from grades tnar
large passenger trains Will be able 70
maintain regular speed OF sixty rri-es
an hour and a single freight locono-
tive will be able to pass over the noun
tains at normal speed. hauling a long
train of loaded cars. There will be no
snow sheds. no double-headed trains,
no slow and putting and tedious climbs
to the summit.
WONDERFUL PICTURE ROUTE
But in attaining these practical re-
suits the Western Pacific has also
sought and secured a wonderful scenic
route that makes fit Western exten-
sion for the Gould Systems Denver and
Rio Grande scenic line through Col
orado. The Western Pacific connected
with the Denver and Rio Grande will
make the grandest mountain railroad
route, the most picturesque of all
transcontfnenta1 lines.
1t will skirt thirty mountain-top
lakes In the Mohawk valley region OF
California. beautiful bodies Of tree
skirted water three and q half miles
by one and a half down to mirroring
iakelets a half mile square. These
lakes and their tributary mountain
streams are the anglers paradise.
Along through this wild, rugged coun-
try, the tracks will cleave through
dense primeval forests of some OF the
finest white pine and sugar pine in the
United States The road is comm s..
down Sierra slopes where are almost
forgotten camps of the gold miners cT
'49, down the north fork Of the Feath-
er River. down Spring Garden Creek.
Spanish Creek, Indian Creek and East
Branch, skirting gushing mountain
streams, and traversing beautiful
meadow lands, each with it's little
nesting group of old settlers houses
n~I ~x~fr
goes through region. rich in Cali
fornfa romance, dotted with haIf-for-
gotten cabins and peop1ed by quaint
characters that have dwelt there since
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world. But what the Western Pacific
is doing and planning to do is not so
well known. The Western Pacific has
laid its plans carefully. with two
primary considerations in view-one is
a direct. low- grade route through to
San Francisco, and the other is the at
tainment of extensive and advan-
tageous terminal facilities on the edges
of San Francisco bay, where connection
can be had with warehouses and fac
tories and with the steamers of the
Pacific without waste of labor and
money in rehandling freight
The work. being done is a gigantic
task Between Niles and Altamont
three tunnels are being cut, aggregat-
ing 1900 feet in. length Between Oro-
vile and the Nevada State line thirty
six tunnels are being bored. a total Of
30.771 feet in length. One of these
Sierra slope tunnels is more than u 600
feet long. The object of these expen-
sive cuts through the rock-ribbed
ridges. of the Sierra is to get as
straight route as possible and one
crossing the mountains at the lowest
available altitude And the object is
being attained by traversing Beck
wourth pass. at an altitude of about 1000
feet less than tha EkAHmit route chosen
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runs through Des Moines, Chicago De-
troit and strip of Canadian country
to terminal at Buffalo. Combined.
these two long ribs radiating from the
Missouri River eastward consist of the
Wabash Railroad, the Wheeling and
Lake Erie Railroad, the Wabash Pitts
burg Terminal and the West Side Belt
Railroad.
RESOURCES THEY REACH
And what do all these parts of the
system east of Pueblo feed upon for
traffic? The Missouri Pacific, with it's
numerous branches, covers the corn,
wheat and livestock producing Sec
tions of the State of Kansas. 1t goes
into the gas and oil belts which
are rapidly developing their own manu-
featuring districts, and it also taps the
comparatively new zinc and lead min
ing country in the southeastern part
Of Missouri now declared to have the
most extensive supplies Of these metals
to be found in the United States.
The ST. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern runs diagonally across the
State of Arkansas, practically dividing
1t into two almost equal parts. This
line skirts the picturesque Ozark
Mountain range and sends out feeders
to Columbus, KY; Memphis, Tenn; Ar
kansas City, Ark, and other places OF
commercial Importance along the Mis-
sissippi River Arkansas has the great
est variety Of timber for commercial
use of any State in the Union. There
are $4,000 square miles of heavily tim
bered country in Arkansas, growing
129 species of timber, including yellow
pine, oak of many varieties, maple,
elm. ash, cypress, walnut and every
variety of hickory that grows in North
America. There are 10.000.000 acres of
pine land alone. In addition to the
heavy shipments of furniture woods to
the manufacturing cities of the CEN
trail region, vast quantities of hardwood
lumber and practically all of the cooper
age stock used in the manufacture OF
wine barrels are annually shipped from
Arkansas to California. Rich as she is
in forests, Arkansas has mineral re-
sources of almost incalculable value.
FIGHT FOR A TERMINAL
How determinedly the Gould System
goes at what it plans is evidenced in
its final entrance into Pittsburg. For
years the coming Of the Wabash into
that great manufacturing city was
fought by rival roads. It was the most
stubborn and sensational contest in the
history of railroad building. Every
step Of the way was opposed. Almost
insurmountable obstacles were met and
pushed aside. But the Gould System
came on and on right into Pittsburg
just the same, and today the Wabash
has in Pittsburg as a triumphant
monument of it's successful entry the
finest terminal station in the United
States. 1t is right in the heart of the
city. adjacent to all the wholesale dis
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CLEANING

trict. Twenty million dollars were
spent for those terminal facilities right
in Pittsburg alone. Is there a hint in
this of how the Western Pacific means
to get into San Francisco and have
commanding terminal facilities?
WHY 1T COMES TO CALIFORNIA
So the Gould System is coming on into
California. First it will have its main
transcontinental extension through
Beckwourth pass. Oroville, Marysville,
Sacramento, Stockton and Niles to Oak
land and San Jose. Then it will go on
reaching out over the rich parts of
California the way it has spread over
Colorado and Arkansas and Texas.
Where there. are prospects of traffic
and greater future development and
greater population. thither the West
ern Pacific will be projected, down into
the San Joaquin, through the Santa
Clara valley, seeking its share of the
traffic of the future Ultimately it may
penetrate to Southern California, and
some day. perhaps. close the gap from
the Pacific to Ell Paso by curving down
through some of that rich mining
country Of growing Arizona and New
Mexico.
What has tempted the. Gould System
to come to California is known to the
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the picturesque mining days. 1t threads
through such historic places as Bid
wells Bar, Rich Bar and Big Bend
one or these old camps produced fts
$l4,o0o.000 in virgin placer gold. ana
within radius OF two miles of Rich
Bar the pioneers took out 100000 0o0
In yellow nuggets and dust
In preparing for the actual work or
railroad building the Western. Pacifc
mas constructed preliminary svsteno
OF wagon roads paralleling the FUTURE
tracks, In order to haul heavy ma
cnInery into the various sections.
IheSe wagon roads, winding nm
through the Sierra to convey stear,
shoyels, steam scrapers, little tractfo-,
engines, tools, tons of blasting pow5s-.
ana other necessities to the ouair =
railroad camps. will remain permanent
improvements for the future use 80
settlers and visitors to this beautif,,1
section of California that is again -
De brought to the attention Of tbs
world Nowhere is money being sna 80
upon this gigantic ceremony Of wss
ding the Gould System to California
linking the Atlantic to the Pacific' wiz j.s,s
a transcontinental line that will r,sr~
San francisco the western termjna1 80
a system OF $4,000 miles OF track.
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~ OMATERCE has been tritely de-
fined as taking things from
where they're plentiful to where
- they're needed. Railroading is
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-16
BY Associated Press.

VENTURA, Cal, March 15.-Train
No 98, the Santa Barbara-Los Angeles
local, was wrecked near Fillmore this
evening. The accident was caused by
a runaway oil car which broke from
the freight train at Piru and raced
for a distance of six miles down a
steep grade, meeting No. 9S head on.
The brakeman of the freight stayed
with his car until just before the col
lision came and then jumped.
The engineer of the passenger hardly
had time to reverse his engine but
jumped when the crash came as did
the brakeman.
The engine toppled over and several
cars left the engine.
The express messenger on the train
was badly hurt and many passengers
were injured.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal, March 15.-
In the wreck at Buckhorn station sew
eral were injured, including Engineer
Stewart, Baggageman Charles Moul-
ton, newsboy and others.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal March 10
No. SO, local leaving this city at 8
o'clock this afternoon, was reported
in collision near Fillmore. One person
was said to be killed.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-16
CHURCH AT WAR
OVER BEER DEAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL LEADER MAY
LOSE HER JOB
She Is Bequeathed Bonds of Pitts
burg Brewery-Trustees Say She
Must Sell or Quit
the Church

Special to The Herald.
PITTSBURG, March 15.-There is
trouble in the Mary Brown Memorial
Episcopal church here and Martha
Lewis, the Sunday school superintend-
ent, is in danger of losing her job.
The Mary Brown church was built by
the late Capt. S. S. Brown, and Miss
Lewis is a young woman of whom
Brown thought much and of whom
he took good care in his will, leaving
her lot of property and among the
bequest was block of $4,000 worth
of Pittsburg Brewing company bonds.
1t is these beer bonds that is caus-
ing the trouble now. Miss Lewis has
been told by the church trustees she
must give up her beer bonds or re-
sign as Sunday school superintendent.
Miss Lewis has dehed the church
people to do their worst.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-16
GAGE BUYS AT POINT Iona
Former Secretary of Treasury Pur.
chases Most of Pueblo Lot-Much
Pleased With Location
Snecial to the Herald

Special to the Herald.
SAN DIEGO, March ia deed
filed this afternoon shows that Mrs.
Katherine Tngley of the Theosophical
society has transferred to Former Sec
retary of the Treasury Lyman j. Gage
all except a very small portion of
pueblo lot 104.
The purchase price is given as SS000-
The pueblo lot is located on top of
the Point Iona peninsula, directly
above La Playa. Mr.. Gage was a
guest of Mrs. Tingley a short time
ago. and two of his grandchildren are
in the Raja Yoga school at present.
The deed stipulates that Mr. Gage
shall not sell the lot to any one except
Mrs. Tingley, and that Mrs. Tingley
agrees to repurchase the property at
the expiration of two years for $4,000
If Mr.. Gage desires at that time to dis
pose of it.
When here the former secretary eX-
pressed himself as exceedingly pleased
if not fascinated with Point Iona as
a residence location.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-16
WIN FRANCHISE
FROM PORTLAND
LOS ANGELES CAPITALISTS
ACQUIRE CONCESSION
After Long Session of Council United
Railways Company Gets Permis-
sion to Build Lines Con-
Meeting Depots
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Ore, March 15.-After
a session Of the city council lasting
from early this afternoon until we'll
into the evening the United Railways
company, which is composed of Los
Angeles capitalists, was granted by
almost unanimous vote a franchise
along Front street in this city.
The franchise, which is the most
valuable that ever has been granted
by the city, permits the grantee to
build trunk line connecting the rail-
road depots in the north end Of the
city with those in the south end.
The action today brings to con-
clusion one OF the most spirited con-
tests ever waged for Portland fran
chise, at one time there being four
applicants in the field.
The fight finally narrowed down to
the United Railways company and the
Willamette Traction company, the for
mer offering the municipality $150,000
for a twenty-fve-year franchise, and
the latter offering to build the road
and present it to the city in consider
alton of being allowed to control its
operation for a term of years.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-16
PARKER SAYS ROOSEVELT
WILL ASK THIRD TERM
DISCOUNTS PRESIDENTS TALK
TO CONTRARY
In Spite Of Teddy's Declaration the
Judge Believes Republican Leader
Intended All Along to Again Ask
for the Nomination
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, March 15.-
Judge A. B. Parker passed through
this city yesterday returning to the
north. In an interview with a repre-
sentative of the Ledger, the former
presidential candidate said:
II am convinced, as far as 1 am
personally concerned, that Mr.. Roose-
velt will ask for the nomination of the
Republican party for third term.
While this probably would be disputed
if it were repeated in Washington, in
my own mind l am satisfied that at
present this is the intention of the
president. In spite Of the fact that
when his nomination in 1904 was an
assured fact, he made the statement
that under no circumstances would he
again be a candidate, and I believe
Roosevelt has all along intended to
ask for the nomination"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-16
MONKEY J.ABBER
NEW LANGUAGE
CHICAGO UNIVERSITY SAGES
HAVE NOVEL PLAN
Simians Will Be Subjected to Various
Experiments, Expressions Re- I
corded In Phonograph and
Lingo Evolved
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
CHICAGO, March 15.-"Monkey
talk" is to be added TO the curriculum
of the University of Chicago. Cages
are now in readiness for about thirty
simians being imported for the novel
experiment, which will be conducted
until definite results are obtained. The
plan is to go thoroughly into the ques-
ton of whether or not monkeys have
distinct language-one that may be
mastered by humans.
1t is said the monkeys will be sub
jected to a series of experiments in
pain, joy, hunger and repletion, forced
to go without sleep and drugged to
slothfulness, made too warm and too
cold. In each instance phonograph
record will be kept of their expressions.
The experiments will be repeated
often enough to determine if the same
expressions are used to voice the same
emotion, and if this proves the case
the sounds will be classified and an
alphab bet worked out
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-16
MINERS MONEY
IN SAFE HANDS
BUTTERFLY LIFE PREVENTED BY
COURT
Probate Judge DEGREES That Funds
Cannot Be Spent Except by His
or Trust company's
Order
Special to The Heralt

Special to The Herald
CHICAGO, March 15.-Wilson Miz-
ner, who married Mrs. Charles L.
Yerkes, will not live butterfly life
upon the millions of the late traction
magnate for a time, at least. The
probate court in Chicago will hence
forth have the say so as to the amount
of spending money the young man
handles.
When Yerkes' will was proved and
admitted to probate today, Judge Cut
ting issued an order directing that all
stocks, bonds and cash moneys of the
estate be deposited with the Central
Trust company of Illinois. Further" "
said the court in it's order mo such
stocks, bonds, securities or cash
moneys therefore shall be withdrawn
therefrom except by order of this
court, or upon vouchers approved by
the Central Trust company"
This order will act as an effectual
block upon any efforts of Mrs. Miner
or her young husband to draw money
from the estate without the sanction
of the court and executor.
Louis X. OwSley was appointed sole
executor. Mrs. Miners marriage, it
is said, caused a GOODNESS between her
and Mr.. Owsley, Clarence Knight and
the other persons interested in the es-
tate. The action in court today is adj
mitted to be a victory of those who
have not approved Mrs. Miners s
course. She now lives in prisonlike
privacy in her palatial residence at
Thirty-second street and Michigan
avenue. She sees few friends AMI
never goes out.
The court order, it is said, will add
nothing to the pleasantness of life. 1t
will place her financial affairs, includ-
ing her smallest pin money, at the
mercy of Executor Owsley and the
court
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-16
CREW JUMPED JUST IN TIME
Shock Breaks Mansprina in One Pas
senuer's Watch


Four passengers and two express
messengers were injured in the COLI
sion but none of them so seriously that
they could not go to their homes or
hotels. Several others were bruised
by being thrown from their seats by
the shock of the COLLISION.
The injured are:
Ben Riggs, Long Beach; finger
crushed.
Joseph B. Troy, Oxnard; leg crushed
J. H. Billings, Chicago; head bruised.
w. M. Trip, San Francisco; leg
crushed and internal injuries.
Express Messengers Charles Maltby
and j. Phillippi, bruised.
The train was in charge of Engineer
Baylies and Conductor Stewart. The
trainmen probably saved their lives
because they saw the approaching car
in time and after making endeaVors
to get away from it by backing up,
jumping from the cab.
w. B. Swigart of Maquoketa, Ia,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-16
SO BUYS VALUABLE CLAIM
on Mexican Government In Order
Settle Up Estate
BY Associated Press.

<aboUOIdtCU
OAKLAND, March 15.-By the re-
cent sale for SO of an old claim against
the government of Mexico for half
million dollars for services rendered by
Jose Alviso, one of the old Spanish
grandees and one time tinekeeper of
the archives of the state of California,
is closed a case which has caused end
less litigation in the courts of Ala
media county, and the sale also marks
the end of long and bitter legal bat
tie between two sons of the original
holder of the claim.
The sale was made that the estate
of the old Spanish don, which has
never been settled, might be finally
closed.