Salt Lake Herald | 1902-04-08 | Page 5 | The New Union Depot

THE NEW JT T LAST q Salt i L Lake may I look k forward th con conj j Ene Q to the speedy erection Of o a aU union U n ion depot In conference with coun COUll of both Ui the Rio Ro Grande f tern and the Oregon Short Line la e given of their readi lt lS to begin construction The spirit manifested by the Western is 0 ly Iy commendable for an otter offer was made tit if boad of to be forfeited it if th is not within within a ar ac c r time The necel necesSIty for a union depot in Lake is so apparent that It seems hardly to call attention to It Itt t At present the Short Line Is 1 doing in a affair that p vId GIO i be disgrace toa to a town of f I It is old out out oF f date dat nearl nearly I dirt stud nd unsightly tra l who come Into the city by byway byway way of th the Sort are ae Invariably given inn an ion of It Lake because ause of that depot and Its T While the Rio Grande Western lur I It better than the other It Is not orth V bragging about At least it I Imor is mor ml e and the grounds are bet bettI tI 11 for tor and aDd at most it I Is about gOld od t fr a cIty the size or of Salt Batt Lak Prior to the eon con 2 ali of the Rio Grande Western Vestern am the Denver Rio Salt Lake ake was the lar largest t city many any times Ume i or fr re d by that hat rod It is still far the largest touched by the Short T Line t both hR have e neglected the the which has baa do doIe so 50 much to t help them All will be forgotten though if th t tt t union depot lepot project now so 90 welt well und t tway i iway way Is carried to a speedy d t The che council Is willing to give gin the roadS anything j reason th ma may want i he hethe i ithe the way of cf facilities and tM the citizens will ill consent There be oo hitch on this point or O Salt L Lake ke even rr r a union lepot is not going to mortgage Itself i 10 the tbt railroads railroad bt bot they will not Ilot demand unreasonable It f Is a pity the depOt Is not re ren ready n More visitors will t be here th summer than fOyer ever before and aU all aj zens ant vant them to carry sway ay PI sa To do this though tb tbd l must shut tb ft eyes until they get p ji j town lown and them again when the they JO go to ti their thai trains Perhaps ps by next year ar the city will ha have e a union dePot dePoto epo of o which It may be proud proM and then so JI strange be blindfolded