Show SALT LAKH da LOS ANGELES I Mr Charles H Roser of New York is in the city for a few days with the promoters of the Salt Lake Los Angeles railway project The gentleman named is here sa an expert engineer rather than as a promoter of the scheme Ho represents investors instead of operators He has come for a twofold purpose i first to go over the proposed route to obtain B general idea of the country and its adaptability to railway construction and second to learn of the resources of the territory to be traversed and which will be tributary to the road He I has been very busy since his arrival collecting information and gathering statistics In the course of a few days he in company with a party will leave for Los Angeles traveling by mule wagons and visiting I the more important mining districts dis-tricts en route and examining the mountain passes between Salt Lake and the Pacific In view of the fact that the immediate imme-diate construction of the road will depend de-pend largely upon the report of Mr Loser we are heartily glad that he has come to look over the field His visit will be accepted by all as next to conclusive con-clusive that the line will be built As a capable engineer he will necessarily find the opening for a railroad one of the most promising if not the very best in the United States today Railway construction in the United States during I dur-ing the past twelve years has been so I great that good territory for new lines j is becoming scarce We doubt that there is another such favorable opportunity oppor-tunity as is presented in this 800 mile I stretch to the Pacific At either end is I a vigorous healthy young city full of life and with rapidly increasing population popu-lation and steadily growing importance Salt Lake is the virtual termini of two I great railways and by the time the I Salt Lake Ii Los Angeles shall be in operation one and perhaps two other roads from the east will end in this city I Los Angeles is the center and headquarters head-quarters of the great fruit region of Southern California The traffic in fruit alone is enormous so vast in fact that today the trade with the east will go far towards maintaining the railway rail-Way The proposed road shortening by 600 or 700 miles the distance between the fruit grower and the market will necessarily have the carrying traffic ot the Southern California region to the east But the road will not have to depend de-pend on the through business for its support indeed if the popular idea of the country to be crossed is correct the through traflic will be only a small portion i por-tion ot the railways trade For fully WO miles the line is to traverse what is understood to bo the richest mineral belt in the west a country abounding in low grade silverlead ores and known to contain some extremely rich ledges while marble and building stone abound all along the line These mines and quarries have been idle and undeveloped unde-veloped because of their isolation and the absence of transportation facilities A railroad will cause the hills to swarm with stardy miners will induce the building of cities and towns and attract a permanent and thrifty population The agricultural capabilities of some of the valleys are great and will at once be put to the test when the railway shall provide a market for the products If thelhalf that has been told of the I Country and its resources shall prove j true the Salt Lake k Los Angeles will from the outset be one of the busiest and most profitable lines of railway rail-way in the United States It will assuredly as-suredly not have its equal in these respects re-spects in the west Mr Koser being a thoroughly capable and careful gentleman his trip is an assurance of the early commencement of operations on the road It will not take him long to learn enough of the resources of the country to convince him of the wisdom of building the road and with the data and statistics which an overlani journey will collect no trouble will be encountered in obtaining the money required Salt Lake may with safety and without fear of disappointment I disap-pointment plume itself upon soon haying hay-ing dir ct connection by rail with the rich region of Southern California and upon being the eastern terminus of a railway which will traverse the I wealthiest mineral section of the west |