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Show DirLilUT j;A!jT AND WST ilAII-R'JAD ' - I Hit. app.:;iod Lh. f.,U - :iiu,:l:: I '"'a- I-'- I-' '-V. :v :,,-..! a tr,,- f- ! -'a i,- m ti,, ,,,.,.,,! f:.:i.,-, i in lvTtfy' yiA l I'.- e 1.', 'ii. ii.. ' '..ai.-tiM J w.-.i,' tl.'.V (".',''p.i'':',- .l:1'!,fl:i1.',,.' ''.:,.! . tV.in.i'i-M-'-.'.iii- I I ''",;';; :,'i,h;.;;tr,;,,v,-"j.-;v ; v.a i.1;iV.;;:v'.11,17i,:A--'1','1k Vt- -i.rh. Villi-'. , l;- liu.it. A'Oiii;. M mi. ' !(...n, l..u .-.:.,n. i.ih.i V.i... v, (' - I. .mi,,,, m-A ,11 hi i -i-r., (,.,r.i... ii.-fn.in (",'m;,! l;'..-i-.'i: ,i,tn't.i. .-.V.ii.i'.'' -imii-K i-r -io'v,;.- r.il ti..:i. 111.' .-!!., rt, ..I'.ul .' wlu.'li .-.-uM Lv o.a- I .-III. L.t..l ..It 11 til.,!-,,.!-! .,i-l ,r..l u-,t 1 I i.ir.i, II,,. r.,uK- 1- .niir- i r.i-W .,- 1 i,:.-. puiiihi, ti,.-u-miiir, ..r wi.it- i-.ii.-. hunl. J .-., !.-r, N v- m.d K-Mi-nl-iu v.. nil tiiid il ivlvi.nln--,iH to -rilHj Ub-iaiiy to !),- ,!., of tl- coiu-j.nuy, coiu-j.nuy, ,o ti,.. o,..d il..- (n. -uUll ( III., -I ..C th.-r coimti-s. l-'lUll. I'm- Ii-, liri-t,,l, T.-hi 1'iul- iiikI nil ..I'tln-t.-rnloi-y rlo t-liiiiH avuiy lu tliu Col-ir-io i-iv.r, Wmi1-1 ,:iy irilu,!-: to .rllt-li lin r:ol w-,l iiur, t'-.r til-- -iinpl-- ri:a.-.n lii.U it wuiiM Ik; one huiLtln-il mil- n-.-un-r to th- tii tliiin th.: t'. iiti-;.i. ,-Sitii. tli- r-.a-l --uutil 1": o , 1 1 i i m. 1 - ,itli from C'.-rn i (i-ir- ;,. i,. I,.,. Ai,....-I. s ,,r ..mi: otli.-r uv.uhi-i,l- j.-.n.Loii tii.---nl,.i;i:--l hv ii r-iiit-lii- li w-.uM i,.- i i.liivly ,ni. ti--idik- at ail ,-n-'m -it'Ui.- v-ur. Tli--'; uri--mi- ul'lli- rvft--oiin :i.K:ui, -1 in favor of an oa-t and v.vit line, mid r.-nf -s- tht th-y strike vii a.-lifinK a.-lifinK v-iy f:i.,r:il-l-'. S.ill L:tk' would lu- 'r-iitly liffiWitU-l liv thn -unlrm tiun ..f iln- r-...-l, an. I would douUl. - iL-adtti.- j . Li 1 1 . i i - in, it-rial aid, (i. n. i Til Co r'- S-vi-r V.ill.-y nnd I'toi'hi-rtm-l, in leaving Salt Lakf, runs -in- w.-t for 7" mil.'-, (.ringing it at tliat ii-.int i(iiiu S2:, mil.-, of Kur-ka. It tin.-n li-nr- -outh n. nrly 'MM inili'to noimiio--fit- l'i'H'ht; uiiil vi-initv, w li-n tho sum: Inid.--oiild :i- w-ll 1" fontiiuTidi--l ly -oiitinuiiiK vi-t to Kur-ka ami U.; otli-r I. In. - w- luiv- iiat.u-ti. Will not our Salt l,iik-i'-liani'i take up tlii- .-ulj 1, and iirqnv-i upon l'-n..-ral L'oinior and hi.- a. -...late- ill.; ailv.tnliijf.-B ofth- rout- wi; liav- tliu-; hri-llv inai.p-d out? At all .n-.-nt, th-n- ran U- no fianu do;n- ly di-i;ii-i-iii(f tin: nui-tioii. liefore thu final purveys ..f the Central J'aeifie and I'nion Taeifie were made, and while surveyinjg parties; par-ties; were numiiiK lines south of tireat Salt J-akc and north of it, we urged through the pn .-s this w:w he-fore he-fore the li:i;,i.l) hud an existence and in other ways, this very thing that the S-n'in-i now advocates. We gave the name of a gentleman, well known in L'tah and Nevada, who w;is ' prepimd to lead a surveying party hy the route whirh the S-,iti.! indicates so that the I'acilie companies could saw a hundred miles of railroad huilding. pa.-s through ti hetter country, coun-try, ii i id make a road with less engineering engi-neering ditUcultn s and at less expense, ex-pense, lint just then Credit Muhilicr was playing a idrong hand; that hundred hun-dred miles saved meant the losing of a huge Hce of land grant and the heavy government suhsidy; added to which the locating mgiueer were nut 'Veen" as they expected to he. and so carried the line north of (heat Salt Lake, to leave Salt Lake City out in the cold. One prominenteontractor said to the writer, in August of ISi'.S, aft-r the line of tho V. P. Ii. K. had Km located down tho Weher Canon, that for SlOO.OiX) he could secure a change in the line determined on and have it run through Salt Lake City. The people of this city met in indignant in-dignant mass meeting in the Tab- iim-IO, SpCCCIlCS wri u mwlo, and. resolutions passed protesting ng;iinst the line of the overland railroad being carried north of Salt Lake City; but indignant speeches and protests were not as potent as bank checks or piles of greenbacks, nnd so went for nothing. noth-ing. Yet Salt Lake could not he left out in the cold. Nature gave it a commanding geographical position, and its locator, ex-Covernor Brigham Young, saw that when the site was determined on. And others sec il today, to-day, so much so that had the line of the great railroad to be located now, with present experience and present knowUdge, it would never cross the i'lvmontory, hut would pass through this city and south of the Lake. The road referred to by tho Snttiticf from this city west will bo built. It is only a matter of time. But east from this point it will go south of the Vnion Pacific. It will cross southern or middle Colorado; and when built it will be one of the best patronized and I est paving roads of the continent; conti-nent; for it will pass through ;v vast region rich in minerals, rich in agricultural agri-cultural resources, and with illimitable illimit-able range for counties-? thousands of cattle. |