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Show MEETING WITH SUCCESS. It is good to see the Chamber of Com-i Com-i merce committee on railroads working up the Tintic railroad project, and it is encouraging to witness with what demonstrations the good people in the settlements are taking hold of the work.' The projectors of the new line want the local business of the county, and the eagerness which the several settlements are displaying to furnish 1 rights-of-way and depot grounds, gives the assurance that the road will J secure this business. Any project ihat will benefit one part of the county, I helps all the county. While this read may build from Provo, yet it will enrich en-rich the other settlements through which it will pass, and give them unthought of facilities. It should be the policy, and the people should work to that end, that the road must tap all the cities from Provo to Parson. As yet this part or the programme pro-gramme has not been determined. It will take but a few miles more work, but the extra amount of business the road will enjoy in consequence will amply compensate the outlay. After the completion of the railroad, people may look for the erection of ; smelters, for they will come, just as sure as the night follows the day. Men owning a railroad in connection with the richest mines on the continent, conti-nent, are not going to pay exorbitant rates on ore shipments, when by a little lit-tle inducement they could pre-'i pre-'i vail on eastern capitalists to come here and do the work. I Ins city is the great centre of the fluxes used in the reduction of ores. We have vast coal beds, mountains moun-tains of iron, and hundreds of ore producing mines in Utah that would all contribute to the business of the smelters. We haye no hesitancy in saying that in the event of a failure to induce eastern east-ern capital to erect smelters, that the rich mines owners of Utah will incorporate and do so themselves, because be-cause it willbe to their interest. The next Chamber of Commerce session will develop some interesting facts on the subject, and we await its meeting with much interest. |