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Show SALT LAKE AND PARK CITY. The formal opening of the Utah Central Cen-tral railroad to Turk City, which occurs oc-curs tomorrow, is quite au Important event. By tho old railroad route Park City to 101 miles from Salt Lako City. By tho new route it is only thirty miles, making a saving of seventy-four miles. This great shortening of tho distance between this city and oue of the richest mining towns in the world will prove a great benelit to the business interests of both places. The many tourists who visit Salt Lake every summer will now include Park City among the places of interest which they will visit in this immediate vicinity. They will liud Park City a thriving, bustling, permanent town of about 6000 people. They will there see some remarkable silver mines, tho principal oue being the Ontario, tho largest in the world, and equipped with a vast amount of wonderful machinery. ma-chinery. No visit to Utah is complete or satisfactory without an Inspection of tho mlucs of Park City. .Besides, tlie scenery along the new route is of the most picturesque and romantic character. charac-ter. Every resident of Salt Lako and Park City will probably make at least ono trip over this seouio road this summer. sum-mer. In a commercial way the value of the road to the two cities cauuot bo overestimated. over-estimated. Thi is particularly true iu the matter of building material. Incidentally Inci-dentally it may be stated that Mr. W. II. Rorulngtou has leased tho Culraer quarry and has already put a large force of men at work, and will lo able to put tcu or fifteen carloads of stone into Salt Lako every day from the start. Other quarries will be worked and henceforth there will be no lack of stone in this city, as there is au . abundance abun-dance of it all along the road from Parley's Par-ley's canyon to Park City. There lias been great complaint that tho railroads were not supplying cars cuough for the transportation of stone, but this deficiency de-ficiency will now bo supplied by the new Park City road. At present only one passenger train per day will bo run each way, but iu a short time two trains will bo put ou one in the nioruiug and . ono in tho evening. It is lo bo regretted that two daily trains are uol to be started at once. Wo believe that the business bus-iness interests ol tho two cities will immediately im-mediately demand such an accommodation, accommoda-tion, and that Mr. Youug will bu warranted war-ranted by the business promised to comply with the demand.' That his enterprise will prove profitable there Is no quostiou. .; :: , By .the way, why would - it not bo a good Idea for the Salt Lake chamber of eomiiHirco to arrange a colouration and excursiou iu conjunction with Park City iu honor of tho completion of this important im-portant ruilroadv Wo hope the chamber of commerco will take this suggestion uuder consideration. |