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Show ADDITIONAL ARGUMENTS. <br><br> In previous issues we have urged the advantages that would accrue to Logan and Cache county, could our city but secure the railroad shops, and in addition to the arguments hitherto presented, in favor of an effort to secure their location here, there are several others of a peculiar force, which may be adduced. <br><br> As we have before stated, it is expected that the shops, when in full blast, will employ six or seven hundred men, and in one respect at least they would serve the purpose of a college of technology in our community, in which scores of young men could learn trades and acquire a practical and thorough knowledge of mechanical engineering, etc., and be at the same time earning wages. The shops would thus help solve the serious problem of providing mechanical trades for our young boys, so many of whom are growing up without trades, nor more than the rudiments of an education. To put our young men to some kind of steady employment would have a great effect in making them more steady in their efforts and would benefit them in many ways, and tend to correct the "hoodlumism" from which our town is suffering more or less at the present time. In our last issue we advocated the presentation to the railroad company of the land and water they might require should they build the shops here, if no other means would secure that important industry to our town. We did this on the business principle of investing one dollar for the sake of making a profit of two. <br><br> The railroad company desire to select a site for their shops that will afford them abundant room. They do not want to be "cooped up" nor confined to a mere nutshell, hence the mention of such a place as Eagle Peak as a site for their shops. In a pecuniary point of view, the benefits that would be conferred upon Logan by the erection of the shops here, is worth making a great effort and the expenditure of a large sum of money to secure that end. |