Show Horace Greeleys Greel s Prophecy The he Railway Journal J o of St Louis has the following When Horace Greeley spoke about the Star of the Empire making its course to the west did he allude to the railway locomotive as an that star starIn starIn starIn In an editorial published In the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Tribune Oct 23 22 1859 under tin caption of A Railroad to the Pacific he says MYS among oUter other things in his modest mod prophecy If there were a good railroad through Utah we believe the Saints would patronize it to the amount of at least half a million per Ji r annum and that this thin amount would rapidly grow to one million It would of course cou c not stop there The Rocky RO ky mountain gold min mines s are arp no longer a matter of si tin n They The just as surely lAIrd exist as we live and we believe they are re destined t to in rea e in Im Importance imI t I and productiveness prod It in is needless to say ay that all his prophecies I were more than fulfilled As to the I traffic oS o Utah It H Is a during ISM 1550 it amounted to something like Mr Creel Greeley was quite modest modestin in all Ills l t predictions |