Show TIME WAS when the railroad I builders seemed intent on letting the public know their intention If anew a-new road wai to be conetruoteJ lbs community to be benefited injured by it wag informed of the facts in advance ad-vance The extension of a line tbt > building of a branch tbe making of any new grade and tbe putting down of new track were all matters of importance i im-portance undertaken only after careful care-ful investigation of the surroundings and maiuro deliberation The newspaper news-paper people were sought out and not infrequently their influence nag solicited to help the project along All this baa changed The railroad builders go about quietly and unob trusiTely They seek obscurity rather I than publicity Tbey keep their own counsel and seemingly are almost 1 afraid to t think in company lest their thoughts should be discovered The I shrewd qniok and enterprising newspaper news-paper reporter could tackle a tombstone I tomb-stone with as much hope of obtaining obtain-ing information from it as from tbe man of millions who is putting down i a new railroad Indeed tka tomb tjne would be the baltsr subject for aa interview as the railroad man is the 10 confoundedly alarmed over pos ibility of anything being learned concerninghiii projects that te is apt to violate the commandment about speaking the troth in order to misled mis-led the inquisitive This has been done in Salt Lake quite frequently within tba past few weeks though it has BO happened that nobody wan mislead mis-lead BO far as we bare heard Only by extraordinary efforts and not a little scheming have any reliable fade concerning the great narrow gosga enterprise south of UI been Uj lrL OI l Y < < obtained yet hundreds of j men and teams are working upon tbe grade of the road that most soon prove of incalculable in-calculable benefit to the people of Bait 1 Lake Valley Within tbe pad few days parties of engineers bat been running Hues through one of the ouons east of the city and torn I grading is i being done but the cnted detective would be baffled were he to attempt to ascertain in whose inter sit tbe work is being done whether a rod is to be constructed and where it is to begin and wbere terminate Rumor puts tbe Central Pacific the Union Pacific tho Utah Eastern the Denver and Bio Grande tbe Chicago Burlington and Quincy tbe Denver Den-ver and Pacific and perhaps other back of tbe project and makes the road a standard and a narrow gauge runs it from Denver to the Pacific Ocean from Park City to Salt Lake from Coalville to Ogden and soon so-on But it is evident that rumor know nothing of the fact and mortal mor-tal man ii i so far unable to learn them The railroad people may and i of course dobave some reason for their stubborn secretivonest but tbe public I ail to understand what that reason ie or why it would not be just as well for the community to know something some-thing about these new roads when where and why they are to be built etc It ia true the construction of a railroad is i not so much ol an under taking as it waa a few years ito yet it is enough that the builder need not bo ashamed of his enterprise nor hide bit work Tbe magnates who are grading tieing and ironing the country in various directions will eat sfy a craving for information if they will become wore communicative and please tbe public generally by answering the railroad conundrums thai are presenting themselves almost weekly hereabouts |