Show MR ME PROJECT how the th san diego mayor tiled to build a railroad editor Trib tribune utie in respect to an article it in to dalys issue fultor mayor carlsone Carl sons project I 1 wish to nay bay that I 1 am well acquainted IT carlson of S sail diego and remember when ho he visited salt lake in the interests ot a railroad to the coast ile he Is an honorable man a dealer in real estate in san diego and was considered one of 0 the very br and most energetic of that city in its palm pal lest days ot of 1857 88 at the time he was vas here some jealous rival sought to east cast discredit upon me motive ii alleging that lie he was working solely in the ili ini teresta ot of a real estate company any own comp ins a tract 0 of land in san D diego ev over which a line from this city to tho the coast would be likely to pass as it was the only feasible entrance the tract of land la 19 known t there here as ocean bea beach ch and was transformed from froin a desolate piece of coast land into a beautiful bathing at great expense on the part of mr ir carlson that mr cailton would be anxious to In increase creaso the line value of this land by a new railroad corning co mingto to it Is 13 no wonder and it was perfectly legitimate for him to attempt it by adv honorable means meang in ills hla powers power and such as the ine 3 project U upon pon which he made ills hla visit I 1 10 to lo salt lake some live years ago had our people taken up with sir mr carlson then we might have had quite a number of miles of that road in operation now perhaps to deep creek it la Is a pity to see such men oat flat down upon and discouraged cou raged as mr carlson was while here I 1 resided in san diego during the great boom there and saw sir mr carlson make a rood good deal of money out of it running into the hundreds of n of dollars lars and then ben t turn around and reinvest every cent of it in more land in the same flame place thus proving his falth faith in tho he future ot his adopted home had we half a dozen ct such men in salt lake as aa mr carlson carison wo we would coon see a a city of population in this valley I 1 am pleased to know that mr carlson 5 on has been honored in san diego by becoming its mayor land and this fact alone ought to convince any one that the gent gentled lem 1 l was honest dionest and sincere in hla his ni olives vei lor for coming coining to salt lake in the hope of getting support from us tor for his projected salt lake san diego railroad honor homor to whom honor ll Is due W A |