Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-02-02 | Page 4 | Where Shall the Rail-Road Go?

I WHERE SHALL THE RAIL RAILROAD RAILROAD RAILROAD ROAD GO GOLet GOLet GOLet Let no man fancy The lican expects to locate the new route of the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake railroad or that portion which will have bae to be changed because of the floods in tho the Meadow Valley Wash But we cling to the hope that we may be pardoned for tor expressing the desire that the line 1100 may run through St George Georgein in Washington county state of Utah In the matter of grades the Judg Judgment judgment ment moot of engineers Is conceded to be bet better better better ter guide for owners o than any newspaper newspaper newspaper per sentiment But we dont think there Is any an foundation for the tho statement that it will be more moro difficult to get I through Washington county than any other which must be crossed in the reach to California Some several trips over the Salt Lake Route before the th floods go far Car to convince the pas passenger enger that there is nothing from Lund to Moapa by way of St George which can appal an engineer And nd certainly there is In ii better invitation invitation invitation tion in that fertile and anti developing val valley va valey Vahey ley hey of bf the Virgin than there can be In I any barren and uncertain district to tho the north in Nevada It is an invitation which grows the more attractive be because because because cause the production and the business of the Virgin valley will greater with each passing year ear We cheerfully concede to the tho owners of the road a right to build bu ld where they thoy please se But Thit 13 t we e respectfully urge them thein to consider the value to their enter enterprise enterprIse prise in cutting across a region certain cerain ain tain to respond amazingly to the op opportunity opportunity of a railroad