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Show "WESTERN RAILROADS. , . The prospect now Is that next yea -i; will mark anerain railroad growth ii the west. California is rapidly beinj H intersected with important lines; Ore gon is making a move towards sccmin; closer and more rapid railway com niunication with the east than th '! Northern Pacific road will give; Neva da has a large increase of railroadin. 111 neir prospective; Utah has two im portant linos in course of construction-thc construction-thc Utah Southern and Utah Northern Cororado has more lines projected am to bo pushed forward rapidly; and th two new great trans continental liues-the liues-the N. P. K. li. and the S. P. li. It will each make rapid progress y Twenfy-Gvo years ago when ih pioneers of Utah pushed forward itU . :." what was then almost a tt rra incognito .' who in imagination even looked fo ' such splendid results in so shor I ; a time? A few years mor and the thou "Croat American Desert' will ho cut up by railroads, with villages i towns and cities springing up, vas P mining interests developed, and tbous 1 ands of suture miLs of the finest ntrri e'lltural and paMiuafO l;:tids in th' , world will support a numerous am thrifty populutiou. The settlers o I'talt pioneered these results; does 1.0 tho nation owe them a debt of giati : tudo? |