MOSTLY HOT AIR. It is generally ungenerous to be suspicious but it is hard to shake off the impression that Senator Sen-ator Clark has sold his interest in the Los Angeles, San Pedro & Salt Lake railroad to the Union Pacific. Pa-cific. Probably this is but natural, but a frank statement of the facts would be to the Senator's credit. He came here two years and more ago and asked for certain valuable considerations on his promise that the road should be pushed through to completion as swiftly as possible, and permitted his friends, who were supposed to be in his close confidence, to promise the road in about two years from that date. That promise has more than once since been reiterated. Of course nothing like ful-fullment ful-fullment has ever been realized. We all know that it has not been from any lack of means. In the past two years the Senator could have double-tracked the road and continued it to Denver from his income alone, had he desired to. It is reasonable then to conclude that the Senator has changed his mind. Inasmuch as he owned some valuable property at the other terminus, ter-minus, it is reasonable to further conclude that it was because of valuable considerations that his mind was changed. Probably it was for Short Line stock. This perhaps would be natural for a multimillionaire to do, but it is not fair to continue con-tinue to hold a hope to the lips of this people only to continually break it to their hearts. If this has been the arrangement, then, instead of competing roads, there is to be a fixed monopoly of the carrying car-rying trade of Utah; this, so far as Senator Clark and his friends are concerned, is never, in railroad parlance, to be a "competitive point." If this is the plan, then it would be but common fairness to so advise this people, that they may spend no more money on hopes that have no substantial basis, and that they may lay their plans on the supposition that they must expect, so far as their "'3bWbHbB dealings with railroads are oncflinifjffiH an absolute monopoly. "IbBbbbIbbI It does not leave Senator GleifewflEHH viable light before the people of Tjl&yjHH course, need not worry him. A nlPnHflH as he can afford to be indifferent t&inHHjH of men, even men .who had faith In ftjf9HHH lieved his promises were worth tMtiM9Hffl who wished him well. Perhaps the mSBSBSBt was necessary to compel the Short IBHflHlHMB the rather expensive terminus at 6HHHH