The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-23
STRONG ARGUMENT
MADE BY P|OCHE
Points Out Fact That Great
Floods Occur in the Virgin
River Canyon.
ASKS WHETHER GRADE
OR MILEAGE GOVERNS
Promises Heavy Tonnage if
Salt Lake Route Builds
Over Bristol Pass.

., A small size civil war seems to huvt
. broken out between the newspapers anC
commercial clubs Of PanRca. Phoebe ano
other towns along the possible northern
pathway that may be chosen by the
Salt Lake Route in rebuilding its line
and the papers and commercial bodies
of Dixie, somewhat as in the oldeu
times OF '6l and '65, except in this case
the war IS of words, or rather Of fig
ures, and the typewriter takes the place
Of the battery,
st. George. battling for .'DixioP in.
stead of for Merrie England in this
case, promises local traffic unlimited and
ever growing from It's future farms and
orchards, and local traffic the Salt Lake
Route needs and wants, But ST George
saycth nau@ht concerning the splintered
ssplros OF the Virgin River country that
like the land of the wicked giants, all
but blocks tho way to the west.
Distance today in rsllroading is meas
ured In minutes and pounds, not in
inches and feet The engineer today
studies with a frown the vertical, not
the horizontal distance. All this the
vigorous camp of Phoebe duly sets forth
IN the following editorial that was pub
hshcd IN the Phoebe Record on Saturday
! morning:
Grades or Mileage, Which?
In In another part OF this issue Will be
| County News Of St. George Utah. telling
| OF tho floods In Dixie on January l.
The Salt Lake papers have also con-
devastation wrought by tho elements all
along the route which The Commercial
club OF 81. George is advocating to the
officers Of the Salt Lake line.
One thing Is clear from all these ac-
counts, and that is that the flood in the
Virgin River valley and those of its
that in Meadow Valley canyon The
Muddy, one OF the tributaries Of the
| Virgin. receives all the water from
Meadow valley besides its other very
eral other tributaries. IT is said the
flood which came down the Fort Pearce
wash Zone OF the tributaries) was so ter
rlfying that Its roar could be heard for
five miles &" The Virgin has always been
a most treacherous stream Its recent
performance was similar in kind to many
which always will recur with more or
less frequency. 1t certainly illuminatcs
the present situation TO understand that
Ile proposed SI George route would go
down the Virgin valley and up the
Muddy.
The Los Angeles Examiner of January
- publishes an interview with Senator
Clark. in which he says; "Onc fact has
been positively determined and that is
tho San Pedro road will never again he
operated through the Meadow Valley
burma child breads tho fire" 1T hardly
seems likely that a railroad company
driven out of ono channel by annihilating
floods will he eager TO try another chan
believe that there is n ghost of pos
sibility that the san Pedro, Los Angeles
& Salt Lake railroad will seek a divorce
from It's old floor route to embrace an
other of stil more Incompatible tenn
perament. The suggestion Of thc 81
George route may be used as "a bogy-
Is.aI.
time. but we are convinced that when
construction begins the line will be found
heading for Panaca.
over Bristol Pass.
Will tho Bristol pass route or tho Ben
nett pass route be chosen from there?
The Bennett pass route VIII be one OF
erosve waterways deep gulchcs and
steep grades II will he far moro en-
ponsive to construct and viii not de-
vclop traffic like the Bristol route, but
In an interview published In The Salt
Lake Tribune on January II. Vice Presi- |
dent j. Ross Clark says: In railroading
Today no one builds for heavy grade"
This followed the statement: THE Virgin |
river country is pretty badly broken up
aud the grades are not inviting" To
which we may add: Neither is the |
water"
In considering tho question of low |
grades and longer mileage il is helpful |
TO consider some examples from railroad |
OF the United states. Over forty years |
ago some gentlemen, imbucd with tho |
Roman plan for roads as tho crow flies, |
built what they called The Air Line |
line from New York 10 Boston The |
mileage was 2le 20 miles The road was
opened by special train, with, popping
literature about the advantages OF shorter |
mileage. The road led n sickly existence
for a few years when its light went out |
ff1I nd tfy htIil lN- ~.
yestment Now six times each week one
train dag takes passengers in common
coaches from New York to Boston via
THE Air Line In six hours and forty-
eight minutes,
BY the Shore Line. ca2 J-5 miles. eight
express trains week days and four on
or sleeping cars, arc run through from
New York TO Boston. three of them mnls-
ing the distance in five hours.
Irom MIw York atqa to Chicago obs by the
miles. BS the Now York Central the
distance Is 9e9 e-lo miles: II, any one
wishes special between the two cities
to make the quickest possible time he
always selects the New York Central.
The fast trains on each road make the
same time. but the cost per ton mile on
the New York Central for freight haulaec
is much less than 1t Is the Penn
sylvaDia-
From st, Pau, to Seattle the distance
on the Northern Pacific over The cas-
cadcs is 1911 miles. All the through
freight is hauled west via Vancouver.
Wash. distance 20733 miles
The Western Pacific mileaEe from Salt
Lake TO San Francisco exceeds the South
erll Pacific by more than one hundred
miles, but no railroad man questions, that
when 1t shall be necessary to make rec
ord time between the two cities the Vest
ern Pacific Will leave the Southern Pa
cfc In the rear.
We hazard the prophecy that the record
time Of the future between Los Angeles
and New York will bs made over the
Clark road on the Bristol pass Phoebe
route.
Going Back to Work.
BY Associated Press II
SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. - Contracts 4
with the brotherhood OF Railway Train-