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Show RAILROADS. The railroad system of the (Jreat liasin is being developed with extraordinary extraor-dinary rapidity. Krperiencc has demonstrated de-monstrated that the railway business of a mining country is vastly greater, in proportion to population, than in an agricultural or manufacturing region, and hence capitalists are not afraid to invest in a railway enterprise penetrating penetra-ting a known rich mineral district, notwithstanding not-withstanding that it may be sparsely settled. Rir several years capital was loth to invest in a railway connection between Carson aud Virginia cities, from the apprehension that the population popu-lation of the two cities and the contiguous contig-uous country was not large cuough to authorize the construction of a railway. The result has proven that a single track railroad is hardly competent to perform the business of a half dozen of the Oouistock mines. When the mines in the Wasatch and Oquirrh ranges of mountains are a little further developed, it will tax the utmost capacity of the Utah Southern road to do the mining business alone. Even now, with only twenty miles of road in operation, it is doing a paying business, busi-ness, and tho probability is that this business will increase to an extent that will make tho road largely profitable, llenco the growing confidence in railway rail-way undertakings through a country yielding the ores of the precious metals, met-als, and the assurance we have that notwithstanding the forbidding agricultural agri-cultural aspeot of the immense region between the Sierra Nevada and the Kooky Mountains, it is destined at an early day to bo threaded with railroads. |