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Show rJKKP CRKEK S1ASS MCRTINO. The action of the board of directors of the chamber of commerce iu deciding decid-ing to call a mui meeting on October IHth, to cousidor the ways ami means to secure the building of the Deep Creek railroad is to be commended. It should ciiUhI the attention of all our Inisiues-i men and there shotiid bo such a meeting that the road would bo raado a certainly. Tiif. Times hnsoften urged the necessity neces-sity for this road. It f.iels that it will ho justiliad iu continuing to prcn the matter upon public attention uutil the project shail havn been pui iu shapu. No m:ia can estimate the measure of lmietit that will occur ti this rity if the proposed road be built. In this ag bo city can prosper without ample fa-cilitic fa-cilitic for attracting commerce to it doors. In tho west we have no lines of water communication, and business canuot bo secured without with-out the railroad. One road is not sufficient; neither arc two or three sullioiontsu long as there are undeveloped un-developed regions that can be made tributary to the city interested. While such a road as the one under consideration consid-eration Wiiuld cost a laru'e sum, ihe l.iuineis refilling from il would be many times greater while the inci eane of piopcrty values would of itself repay the cost of tho enterprise. Tub Timks well knows that it would be dillicult to raise here all the rea'ly rash needed to construct tho Deep Crock road but our i ecplrran make a start iu tho co.ifideut knowledge that tione are helped so (juickly as tho3 who help themselves. It would not be burdensome for the business men of Salt Liiko to subscribe all the money timiiUd to start tho enterprise. After il should tie started capital would aoou bo procurable to finish it. Such a movement would demonstrate the laith of these, people, in tho renources of the Deep Cruek country, and when capitalists should be applied to for funds the project would command their approval. Tho best way to secure a start is for our people to come together and lay out a plan of campaign. Those who have not studied tho subject should make a study of it now, learn whut the benetits to the city would be, and attend at-tend the meeting prepared to do their full share toward making it a success. When the meeting is held there will no doubt be men present who can give an array of facts and figures that will convince con-vince tho most, skeptical and arouse the most sluggish. Il ought to be followed by immediate action, and if thoso who have the matter at heart will unite in agitating the subject iu the meantime, wo believe that tho meeting will prove to be tho actual inauguration of the long talked of project. |