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Show Olll'KLANKEIl. It is quite time for tho soporiDe Union Facilie railroad to wake up to the fact that the Hanking column of the Rio Grande Western, by way of Thistle canyon, has stolen a march on it, dividing divid-ing the trado of the Sau Pete valley and getting control of tho vast ticld ol coking cok-ing coal on the eastern slope of the Wasatch Wa-satch range. Can the U. P. afford to go to sleep over tho noarly exhausted coal mines of its Wyoming division, and allow its wido-awake competitor to top a virgin Held of superior coal for domestic and coking purposes, nearer and more accessible to the 'smelteif, present and future, and also to this city, hitherto its best local market? If, aftpr the U. P. had obtained control con-trol of the San Fete narrow gauge railroad, rail-road, it had brought that road to the staudard gauge, crossed tho range at the head of Huntington canyon, cor-ralod cor-ralod tho coal Hold on the line of march, secured the largo and growing trado of Castle valley and the asphaltum and mineral region in the vicinity, and been in a situation to meet or treat with the oncoming railways from the east, il would have proved Itself master of the situation and commanded a business which in the future must become immense. im-mense. Such a movement would probably' prob-ably' have prevented tho building of the Thistle branch and given the U. P. its needed coal and coko, which, at present is controlled by the R, G. W. , , |