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Show THAT ROAD. ' 'M Would it not be just as well to 'let up a little"" H on the San Pedro railroad. It does not add a H mile to the railroad trackage ot Utah and will H not for some years to come. It does not give any H more men employment in Utah. When finished it jH will turn a great wave of through travel through H Utah; it will carry a great deal of ore to Utah H or Los Angeles smelters; it win be a good thing fl in many ways. This has been pointed out from H time to time for some eighteen years past, but H Salt Lake City did not enthuse to any great ex- H tent over the prospect. If it had it could have H built the load itself and the revenues from it j H would have paid all the operating expenses of, , H this city. But her rich and poor men lacked the H pluck and enterprise necessary to seize the man- U ifest opportunity. Why then the present con- H tinued gush? The first benefit of a road to a H town is in the making of that town a depot of H supplies, and the opening of a field of labor for H the unemployed. Nothing of this kind lias come H or will come to Salt Lake thiough the San Pedro i H road. All that is promised is that some 400 miles H of already constructed road is about to change h H ownership. Not a new man will be employed, no H increase in supplies can be expected. No con-" ,-, H nection is promised under two years, and that H was promised in two years, two years ago. When H finished the chiefest benefit will go west instead- H of east. Why then do fool landlords In Salt Lake H raise rents, why do eager real estate men ad- H vance prices to the prohibitory point for pur- H chasers? Why not use a little horse sense and H look at things as they are? jH |