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Show ' Bt'IIjDITG K4II.U AYS. In another column will be found an article from the Denver Aei in relation rela-tion to the Denver, Georgetown and Utah railway, in which the statement is made, upon the authority of Gov. Evans, that President Brigham Young assured him the people of this Territory Terri-tory would build the Utah section of the road as soon as Colorado completes it to her western boundary. This road will open to exploration and development develop-ment a rich mineral region, and with the U, C. and U. S. roads will make the working of the mines of this Territory Terri-tory throughout its ex'.ent a profitable possibility. Without these roads the mineral wealth of Utah would have lain dormant forever, and yet notwithstanding notwith-standing this acknowledged fact, the men who are chiefly interested id i building them, arc charged with being opposed to the development of the mines, and the men who make these charges assume to themselves the exclusive ex-clusive credit of making our mineral wealth available to the world. Some of these latter gentlemen have made large fortunes from our mines, which they never could have done except that the mines were rendered accessible by the construction of railways, and of all this wealth' they have not invested a dime in the enterprises to which they are indebted in-debted for its possession. We do not complain of this, but wc do impeach tho candor and honesty of men who fatten upjn the enterprise of other people, and then dcoounce them as be ing opposed to what every body knew in advance must be the inevitable result re-sult of that enterprise. |