The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-18
Great Earning Power.


can be safely placed nj 100000 and with
the growth expected in this city alone
| II viii soon be over 100000 The
southern California territory embraced
| by its electric lines has only about 300.-
00O and vet the systems total over 800
miles.
Taking the railroad averages the sys-
fem would earn from the very start on
the above mileage, per year, the fol
lowing: Passenger. 100000: milk,
| 500 900; express. $4,000: mail, Sl00,-
| 900: merchandise and small fretghts,
$500. 900 II will be seen that these es-
| Inmates do not include the vast ION
mage which can be classed as the prod
uct of mines, the product of ANIMALS,
the product of forests or the product
of agriculture for the reason that IL
would take 4 long time for an electric
system TO compete successfully with the
steam roads for these classes of freight
| for various reasons. However, such
traffic would gradually be developed and
would add TO the tonnage eventually.
Each wear would also see its own de
velopment in the system and It's traf
! &c. This increase would be the nat
ura sequence 80 The building up Of
the country ard owing to the very rich
agricultural sections traCcrsed. the vast
armv of workers travelling back and
| forth between this city and the indus
trial plants mentioned, the glorious
mountain and lake resorts in Salt Lake
and Utah counties, the great areas be-
ING put into dry farms and the new
! fruit lands all would tend TO add 10
the steady increases in the system 3
earning power.
Again the reduced rates for both
freight and passenger traffic would ike
wise make an Increase IN the lota
Now the rate from Salt Lake 10 Utah
{ &c fllI DpnpIp
afford the trip but once year. hut
with the reduced rate it would mean
two or more trips for these same pco-
pic.
The equipment for the system would
include work aud freight locomotives
similar TO the electric motors used by
the local system in its work trains IN
this city; also included would be the
ordinary fiat and box cars. The pas
scnocr equipment would consist OF the
large double motor cars for fast runs,
trailers. mail express. milk, baggage
and parlor cars. Such equipment is
found on the various lines radiatiDg
Developing Through Freight,
Only the passenger ears would bc .op-
Grated from the center of the city but
a central freight station would be cs-
tablshcd ut some convenient point on
the wpsi side where track connexions
could he made with the steam roads
I'm Los Angeles The Pacific Electric has
an arrangement whereby il picks up the
citrus fruits and other freight on IT'S
inc and delivers IT. 10 the Southern
Pacific at Los Angeles for shipment TO
the cast.
In Utah, for instance. The electro
system could pick up car OF Holiday
or TavIorsvillc produce and deliver inc
same To ono of the steam roads N lhlS
rify and ihc same could he true OF coal
and all merchandise destined FOR thc IN
Land points reached by the new Ines
In fact. such system develops lis own
traffic and instead Of harmIne the steam
road il hclps il and adds 10 MS import
aucc as a distributor,
OF course the lines to Provo would
be Temporarily affected but as the sySs,
| tcru expands so the older roads would
derive The benefit of the expansion made
| nns.iltn bv the electric line ana All
! ,"o,,Id share in the beneficial results,
If is these facts. the virgin hcld tor
tbp investment, the fertility oil inc SOIL
| tLc nonuIation. the Industries. Inc won
| GorfuI pIcasurc resorts and possibiil,ics
.,long these lines and the actual need OF
"mci," a system that have attracted 10
mis- citV and state the attention OF the
investor and the loca capItnnst IN ~"
ntTnrt fo build up IN clcctrlc system
( That such Il system "Ill shoI'S wv 'O"
| structcd seems 10 be aSsuIcu