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Show The Exploded Excursion. I About tho best thing for lhi country which has happened toi some time, was the falling through oi the proposed excursion to San Fran-I Fran-I cisco. Had the projectors been buc- cessful in securing the epcclal rates desired, upwards of "30 and probably 5u0 persons would have taken advantage advan-tage of the cheapness of tho fare to visit the Bay hiate. The average expenses ex-penses of each, including the f.iro, could not have been less than $100, making an aggregate of from $i5,000 to 5-50,000 which would have boeu taken out of Utah, and spent in California. Cali-fornia. Most of the above sum would have ecn clear gain to the railroad company, and hotel keepers of California Cali-fornia while it would all have been a dead loss to Utah; and in the present pres-ent scarcity "of money and the dull times, this Territory is not prepared to have so large an amount taken away from it, especially as the money which would have been thus carried ofi, for the most part, is that which is iii daily circulation. We understand ther Central Pacific Company was offered -3,0(0 for five cars to go and return, and had they accepted the offer not less than $1,500 of the sum would have been net profit to the company. But we are glad they did not accept, and that the excursion has fallen through ; lor, however agreeable it might have been to many of our citizens to visit San Francisco . at such a comparatively small cost, on the whole the expense to the Territory Terri-tory would have been greater than it should be called upon to bear in the , present state of financial affairs. |
