Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-24
Head of San Pedro, Los ANGELES
& Salt Lake Road Arrives
This Morning.
IS NET BY HIGH OFFICIALS.
Vice Prest. ]. Ross Clark, Gen.
Traffic Mgr. r. A. Wann and
Gen. Counsel Kelley Here.
Senator Spends Very Busy Morning,
Comforting With railroad Officials
over Plans Tor Improvement.

Former Sch. william A. Clark.
president OF the sun Pedro, Los Angeles
s Salt Lake railroad arrived in this
city from Butte this morning in his prI-
waite car The senator came In over tho
Short Line, accompanied by Private
Secy. Anderson. Almost simultaneous
ly there arrived from Los Angeles, !.
Ross Clark, vice president OF the ro1d,
accompanied by General Traffic Man
sger Frederick A. Wann, and Judge
Kelly. general counsel for the railroad
company.
CONFERS WITH w. Ii. BANCROFT.
Soon sitter his arrival Senator Clark
repaired TO the offices of General Nam
ager Bancroft OF the oregon Short Line,
and together with the traffic and other
officials OF the two roads remained M
close conference until this afternoon.
The senator denied himself to reporters
up TO that time but the significance
Of the visit OF the hig officials Of the
road IN all probability has to do with
the carrying out OF a. number OF plans
for Improvement and the addition of a
large amount Of rolling stock and mo-
tive power for the hetterment of the
entire length Of the road.
TO SPEND A MILLION.
II is said that within the year inn
proyements will be inaugurated on the
road that will require the expenditure
Of Si,00OO00 for the Improvement OF the
roadbed along the line besides a similar
outlay being necessary for the placing
in shape to forever defy washouts OF
the Meadow Valley Wash country,
where the road was hung up for six
weeks during the early part OF the year.
II is also stated that the plan of bet
tCrineut contemplates the tearing up
Of tbs old rails in the tracks built by
the oregon Short Line people south OF
Milford, and by the Union Pacific COM
panY between that point and Calieute.
ana replacing them with S5-pound steel
| throughout. The roadbed Will be rehal-
/ lasted and put IN shape 80 that 10
| smoother aud more substantial rOad
| will be found anywhere In the United
states than that Of the salt Lake
Route.
ADDITIONAL MOTIVE POWER.
Fully a million dollars viii be re-
| quired for the supplying of all the adj
! ditional motive power now contem-
! plated by the road. 1t is said that
40 of the biggest, latest, most powerful
engines of the AOgul type are due to
be placed In commission in the near
future, and this in addition to the 10
new ones received just "A short time
ago will place the operating depart
| ment OF the road in position to handle
the largely increasing traffic now COM
ing to the road.
RATES TO NEVADA.
The Nevada trade is bringing a great
deal of grist TO the mill of the san
Pedro, and when matters are adjusted,
II Is highly probable that Salt Lake
and Utah tobhers may be given such
equitable rates that will enable them
to swing a great deal of business In
mining machinery and supplies for the
new mining camps of Nevada that Will
be profitable for the wholesalers and
incidentally increase the income of the
road.
President Clark will probably spend
several days in Utah, comforting VII
the officials OF the railroad and maxi
ing a trip to- his big copper properties
In the ODhir district.