The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-05
SENATOR CLARK
VISITS SALT LAKE
Confirms Abrogation of Agree
nnent Between San Pedro
and Southern Pacific.
HE TALKS ABOUT NEVADA
WILL REMEDY FLOOD coNDI-
TioNs IN MEADOW VALLEY.

Senator ". a. Clark arrived in the
city yesterday at $50 D. m. and left for
Butte at Has p. m. on his special car
He was accompanied by Mrs. Clark, their
child and attendants. and ]. II. Anderson,
his private secretary. and Mrs Ander-
son.
The senator had Just completed a trip
OF inspection over the line OF the San
Pedro road, including q detOur to Beatty
and Goldfield over the route of the Las
I vegas and TOnopah road. The inspection
OF the Meadow Valley Wash, the scene
/ OF Inc winter washouts, was made with
; the cOmpany's engineers and W. II. Ban
cfGIt, wee president of the Oregon Short
! Line, and President Clark said the
changes in the line necessary to prevent
a repetition of the winters troubles had
been determined upon
All that is needed" he said lis to
raise the grade in some places, divert the
channel of the water in others and re-
place pile bridges with steel-span bridges
through the wash. The first floods of the
winter were two feet higher than any
thing ever known before in Nevada and
the succeeding floods which tore out the
repair work done were five feet above
the highest water eYer recorded before,
In view of the circumstances the work
or reconstruction was done in remarka-
biy quick time and the roadbed is now in
splendid shape for trains.
W hen the Improvements decided upon
nave been made We believe the road will
be out of danger from any possible rene
titiOn of the trouble it has had this win
ter. The Los Angeles Limited goes on
again at both ends of the line at once,
and operations have been resumed on the
oid Schedule' or better one at both ends
Of the line"
Conditions in Nevada.
Referring to the extension OF the Las
Vegas & TOnOpah railroad into Goldfield
and Tonopah, Senator Clark said:
COndltlons in Nevada are exception
ally favorable. I visited Beatty Rhyolite
and Goldfield, and found things coming
on at a remarkable rate. Goldfield seems
10 De building up astonishingly and is a
most promising field for traffic Our
road Is within twenty miles of Goldfield
now with the grade, we have all the rails
and ties needed for the completion of the
line and ought TO be into GOldfield in less
than ninety days without difficulty From
there we will push on into TonOpah, as 1
nave said we would, and when we get
through salt Lake ought to benefit much
from the business opportunities that will
be opened IN by the new road"
When he was shown the dispatch from
Washington saying the interstate com
merce commission had been notified Of
between the Southern Pacific and San
Pedro lines. the senator said the report
was correct. Both companies he said
have formally adopted resolutions can
ceiling the traffic agreement Of June 1865
and all other agreements excepting the
arrangement for terminal facilities in Salt
Lake, winch IS between the san Pedro and
the oregon Short Line and is not an in
terstate matter. The traffic agreement
was not in accordance with law Of the
California legislature passed at abe last
session, and -here seemed to be some
question about its legality as affected by
interstate laws, so it was cancelled bv
mutual action and means that the San
Pedro will be operated as an Independent
line in all traffic matters"
Roads Future Assured.
Senator Clark said he was ssngufue
about the future of his road. Traffic in
Nevada had developed unexpected proper
tons. through business is most satisfac-
tory, the troubles with washOUts are in a
fair way to be overcome with little trout
bic in the future and the intermOuntain
public had shown an interest in the sue
cess of the line which was as gratifying
as ii was encouraging. The two terminal
cities, Los Angeles and Salt Lake. were
both growing at a phenomenal rate and
conditions generally were favorable for
railroad operations. While the winters
damage had been a little discouraging il
had not affected the determination OF
the management in the least in its pur-
pose TO make the road the best in the