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Show IT IS (.OLI D. We hope the change in the Uuion Pacific, with Gould again in control, will prove of benefit to Utah and Salt Lake City, though we confess to a serious doubt about it. When, six or seven years ago, Mr. Gould parted with the Union Pacific, h loft the company com-pany in practically a bankrupt condition. condi-tion. President Adams maintained its solvency nud improved its financial condition in a degree sullicicnt to in-duco in-duco Mr. Gould to once more tako possession of tho road, which he would scarcely do were the property to demoralized de-moralized as it was at the time of his withdrawal. There is an ominous sound in Jay Gould's interview concerning the future policy of the CnUm Pacific, which will strike tho Utali people with dismay. He says: Thero are railroads enough In the western country for the neit live years. We want now to iut.-!llKcntlv develop tho co.intry aud have It (row up to the capacity of the roads without iif nlntr t:io shareholders by competitive rates, which are at) ad van t ujo to uob .dy. Does that indicate tho abandonment abandon-ment of the . Jlilford-Pioche extension, exten-sion, which has passed beyond the stago of preliminary survey into that of actual construction? l):es it mean the abandonment of all tho work in Utah, Idaho. Oregon, California and Washington that was projected last year and partly inaugurated at a heavy expenditure of money? In another interview Mr. Gould, when asked what his plans were in regard to the western branches of tho Union Pacific, Pa-cific, said an effort would bo made to make them earn something. This would be done by a slight advance in rates, which would ha sufficient to make the road pay. Wu in Utah have been clamoring for lower rates, and now the promise is made of a "glight advance." That is not reassuring. We asked for bread and Gould offers us a stone. He said no steps were taken yot in relation to any removals or appointments appoint-ments on the Union Pacific, but wo expect ex-pect thnre will be a wholesale slaughter of tho innocents. Thero is just one compensating feature in the si'.u ation. S. II. II. Clarke, Gould's former general manager and doubtless his future general gen-eral manager of tho road, is a thorough thor-ough railroad man, imbued with broad western ideas, and he may modify his master's policy. Let us pin our faith iu him. |