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Show A DiY OmilOADING Practical Men Oompare Oitiei that Have aad Have Hot Assisted in the Construction Con-struction of Railroad!. SALT LAKE'S BIG OPPORTUNITIES, General News, Personal and Otherwise, of the Railroads in Utah and Various Vari-ous Parts of the Union. "The action of the city council in the Deep creek project," said one of a crowd of railroad men, "has aroused the progressive citizens to an unexpected unex-pected pitch. However, there is no use of anybody getting hot as the proposed road will go sure as the sun shines. Mr. Bacon and his associates will see to that." "Some years ago when Leavenworth was a trading post the people of the town said we are the railroad center of the stale and the lines aro bound to come our way. They rested on this supposed supremacy for a time. Railroad com- I panics made known their desire to enter the place but the people offered I no inducements. Kansas City was then termed a "skunk hole" but her people did a mighty good thing. They awoke to the occasion and voted to issue bonds to assist the railroad rail-road companies across the river to the city, and in various ways offered substantial assistance which was accepted. ac-cepted. The result is seen today. Lca-veuwnrth Lca-veuwnrth has the same population, considerably con-siderably less, than 40.00!), which she had for tho last two decades. Kansas City has gone ahead like a shot and today to-day has a population of 132.410. "Tho same may bo said of Fort Madison and Keokuk. The formergave eighty acres of laud and &S0.0OO to the Santa Fe, the latter sum to pay the company's right of way across the stale from the Mississippi to tbe Missouri Mis-souri rivers. Port Madison is on the main line of the Chicago, Santa Pe & California, while Keokuk is a bobtail station. "Look at Chicago; it is the greatest railroad center in the United States. The people of that city welcome all rnilroads. I predict that within twenty-five twenty-five years ocean steamers will harbor there. "Geographically Salt Lake is admirably admira-bly situated to become the greatest city west of the Missouri. See here, there is no large city east of'it until Denver is reached; on the south there is none; San Francisco is the point west and II.. I...,. !!,.... t U A few more railroads here and nobody need entertain fears as to the future of Salt Lake. "While all this Deep creek talk Is on, don't forget that the projectors of the line can easily start from Ogden. Should they do so, Salt Lake would feel cheap and droop for want of nourishment. nour-ishment. The Union Pacilic is earnestly interested in hindering the enterprise. en-terprise. They need not suppose the Deep creek will take their old survey. A lino could be ruti along the south end of Great Salt lake, through Skull valley, through the Cedar mountains across tho desert almost al-most due west to the Deep Creek mountains. moun-tains. The road will be built" Tht Situation la Kansas. P. H. Waggoner, attorney of the Missouri Mis-souri Pacilic, in a recent letter in reply to an inquiry about tho proposed extension exten-sion of a line to Westmoreland, said that neither his nor any other road iu Kansas City would consider the question ques-tion of extending until it was known whether tho legislature would puss any of the inimical bills before it, for "If the vicious legislation now pending relative re-lative to railroads, mortgages, taxes and interest shall be enacted it will produce harder times in Kansas City than five years of drouth and grasshoppers." grass-hoppers." Kallrnad Notes, General Superintendent W. H. Bancroft Ban-croft is expected in Salt Lake in a day or so. C. C. Crane, San Francisco passenger agent of tho New York Ctnilral, is at the Walker. The Chicago & Alton contemplates establishing a freight agency at San Francisco. The Uuion Pacitio is busy shipping large quantities of salt from this city to Montana points. Business on the Union Pacilic is increasing in-creasing at a line rate, and new train crows aro beincr nut on thu main line. Harry 'looker, lately with the Great Northern & West Superior, is 1). K. Hurley's new secretary at the Union I'acilic oPjee. The Hio Grande Western will move its offices Monday from the Progress to the board of trade building on West Second South. W. H. Snedeker, San Francisco passenger pas-senger agent of thu Bio Grande Western, West-ern, is making the Walker his headquarters head-quarters while in 'Aon. Kast-bound Santa Fe trains will for a few days arrive in Ogden on the Southern South-ern Pacilic and Hio Grande Western. This is occasioned by washouts in Arizona Ari-zona and New Mexico. The attention of the general land office has been called to the wanton destruction de-struction of timber near Monte Vista by contractors who are supplyitrg the Denver Den-ver & Hio Grande with ties. Charley K. Ingallsof the Union Pacific Pa-cific is a happy boy. The cause of his joy is the arrival of a sweet little girl at 5:45, mountain time, last evening. The tot has been named Gertrude. |