The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was a rail company in California, Nevada, and Utah in the United States, that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities, via Las Vegas, N
Original corporate logo of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad
SPLA&SL railroad workers, early 1900s in the Tintic Mining District, Utah
San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad locomotive #32, early 1900s
Advertisement from 1906
William A. Clark
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William Andrews Clark Sr. was an American mining magnate, entrepreneur and politician who was known as one of Montana's Copper Kings alongside Marcus Daly, and F. Augustus Heinze. He was a U.S. Senato
Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad
…via Las Vegas, Nevada. Incorporated in Utah in 1901 as the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, the line was largely the brainchild of William Andrews Clark, a Montana mining baron and United States Senator. Clark enlisted the help of Utah's U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns, mining magnate and newspaper man, to…
Clark in 1917
Clark buying a newspaper, c. 1906
Political cartoon depicting Clark bribing state legislators, October 1900
Clark in November 1920 with his daughter, Huguette, donating 135 acres to the Girl Scouts after the death of his daughter Andrée, which was named Camp Andree Clark