Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-11
P|OCHE BRANCH
GETS COMPLAINT
Mining and Travelling Men Say
Salt Lake Wins Blank
Prize.
LOS ANGELES IS FAVORED.
Merchants Turn from This City Be
cause of Delays: Il. c. Peck
Hastens TO Explain.

After petting and nursing and boost
ing the Phoebe branch Of the Salt Lake
Route the travelling and mining men
of this city and Phoebe are UP in arms
over the schedule and service offered.
The first Salt Lakers to return from a
trip to Phoebe by the new schedule came
home thoroughly disguised and since
then the affair has broadened and Wild
ened until 1t is now e. matter OF conse-
oucnce. The main point raised by Salt
I.akers Is that the new schedule is all
in favor Of Los Angeles and altogether
against Salt Lake. Although TINS CITY
IS over 40 miles nearer Piocne IMAM
Los Angeles, the camp Is buying from
Los Angeles, not because OF lesser
price. but because the connections from
this end of the line entail delay. loss
and waits.
Miningmen--numb of them--say
the new schedule is not only an outrage
on those who must use the line out an
insult to this city. 1t Us explained that
under the old arrangement one could
leave Salt Lake on the limited IN the
evening and get into Phoebe the Follow
ing morning; transact his business;
leave Phoebe the save evening and reach
Salt Lake next morning, thus losing no
time and really using up but one day
for the trip. Under present conditions
one leaves here on the evening train
arrives In Caliente at Z o'clock in the
morning and must wait until o'clock
in the evening to so into Phoebe. 1t is
said one can beat this by taking
stage out of CaIiente. A whole day IA
lost and the mail. cypress and freight
handling is bad.
TAKE 1T UP WITH MR.. CLARK.
There are men in this city who use
the Phoebe branch considerably and so
dissatisfied with the service and so an
cry at Salt Lake getting worsted for
Los Angeles, have they become that
they have written to Vice President
J. Ross Clark, registering complaints
and filing appeals In behalf OF Salt Lake
for fair play. Mr. Clark writes back
that complaints have reached his ears
about the Phoebe service and eastern
connections. but sees no way of bet
tering them" (any change would de-
stroy the now perfect connections from
the Los Angeles end). He asks for sug-
gestions and is getting plenty.
]. C. PECK's STATEMENT.
1t happens that T. c. Peck, general
passenger agent OF the Salt Lake Route,
is In this city He presents the rail-
road company's side OF the story He
advances a number OF reasons for the
benefits OF the change. A few follow:
You must remember the Los Angeles
Limited is train for transcontinental
traffic and local traffic must take It's
chances. BY this 1 mean 1t might hap
pen the Llmited's space would be sold
out before reaching Salt Lake This
would not leave room for persons start
ing from this city. 1t would be awk-
ward TO have people buy tickets here
and then have no room for them. An
other thing the Limited Is subject to |
delays while on its long run and when |
ever late would throw persons on their |
way to Phoebe away late Under the |
new arrangement a wait OF four hours |
at Caliente Is certain to be no longer. |
And again most of the traffic at the |
present time comese from the west, that |
is to say from camps in Nevada.
And still further, stop of one day
in Phoebe Is imperative as our depot is
built on a side hill; we have not had
time enough 10 make our terminals
there just as we would like them. When
we are accused of favoring Los Ange-
les we are done an injustice. We favor
no one territory over another. Nevada
and Utah receive just as much attention
from our hands as California why
look at our trademark, The Salt Lake
Route'-don't our using II mean any
thing? Doesn't II show we are willing
to advertise and help the state?"
The outcome of the whole affair is q
thing for the future alone to reveal.