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Show Steamers and Traffic. Some in dividuals of the narrow-guage very' narrow-guage track of thought have! been spluttering about the steamer City of Cort'nnc injuring Salt Lake city! The idea is simply worse than ridiculous. We wish to see more steamers on the lake. There will be traffic for them all should the mineral wealth of East canon develop as expected. ex-pected. But there will al.-o be more traffic than the railroad can carry without with-out greatly increased facilities. The vast mountains of metal lying east by south of Salt Lake city will yield employment em-ployment for thousands, and immense quantities of freight for shipment, while as the great agricultural and manufacturing centre of the Territory it has really no rival in the Rocky Mountains. This miserable, contemptible contempt-ible stylo of attempting to increase the importance of one place by underrating that of another is too murh resorted to. Corinne, Ogden, Frovo, and a hundred other towns may grow; we arc interested in the growth of all, for all arc in the Territory, in which our interests are cast; but these wise-acres forget that in the progress of trade, commerce and business, all places within a certain radius of the centre j will always partake of the general ben-; cfits. Ogden will grow; Corinne will grow; and Salt Lake is and will remain the metropolis of this interior region, with increasing freight traffic each succeeding suc-ceeding year. As a litct, we may say, that more l'reight was received in Salt Lake city last week, by U. C. It. than was received in a whole season five years ago. Facts and figures have been given in the Herald. j |