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Show -J A THE DEEP CREEK ROAD. . We regret the delay caused by the action of the city council in the building build-ing of the Deep Creek railroad. We regret it all the more as the council seems to be fully alive to the importance import-ance of tho scheme and its individual members in favor of it. A cocensus of opinion elicits the fact that fully ninety-five per -cent of the people of Salt Lake desire the road to be built and thus baoked the council would have been amply justified in going ahead and passing the ordinance. Public Pub-lic opinion in" (his country counts for more even than law, and certainly for no less than a technical consideration which the ablest lawyers of the city declare de-clare to be untenable. Mr. Bacon's petition as amended should be granted at the next meeting of the council without a dissenting vote; that is the import of the all prevading sentiment of this community. Delays are dangerous. The Central Pacific forsook the route proposed to be followed fol-lowed by Mr. Bacon because its engineers engi-neers came to the desert in the winter and found the soil so soft that they could not cross it. We don't want it forsaken now, and it is important to get tho expert engineers that are to come here from tho east over the line before the ground becomes wet and impassable for teams and men. If the council should permit further juggling with the project, and the enterprise en-terprise fail on that acoount, we believe the people would berate that body and ill policy for denying a boon and thus crushing a legitimate boom. |