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Show the rnitr hi.ock aoain. So far as public opinion has been able to manifest itself sinco Mr. Macon made the proposition to the city council coun-cil to purchase the Fort IJlock, it has been to ttio effect that the price offered for the property, to wit, $150,0 )!), is a fair valuation for it. If the square were put on the market today wo doubt whether it would bring tho same . amount of cash. On the other hand, it is estimated by all of the business men we have been able to consult, that tho building of tho railroad rail-road would increase the value of Salt Lako property at least ten per cent, which is equal to $.'5,000,000 of the assessed valuation. One of tho leading business men of the city who has been associated with railroads for many years in getting subsidies and rights of way, said to Tiik Tivks he hail never known or heard of so liberal a proposition being made to any city as tho one submitted by Mk. Macon to this city. As wo understand it.Mit. Macon does not claim to bo building the road wholly for tho benefit of Salt Lake, although al-though that is a matter entirely immaterial imma-terial and foreign to the project, so long as the benelit does accrue to tho people. We happen to know, however, that the gentleman has dotm a great deal of work personally, trying to gut this tail-road tail-road started. We think that the generosity gener-osity of tho people of Salt Lake is not taxed too high when Mr. Hacov offers to pay them $1.50,00:) for the privilege of coming into this city and getting one block for depot purposes. If he and all other people who have money to invest would take the advice of the Herald and invest elsewhere, what would become of our beautiful city? The great trouble with Salt Lake city ever since it w:is founded has beeu the same as It is today. Tho objoction to everything new and progressive, mouthed through the Herald this morning, morn-ing, is as old as the first settlement in these hills, and it accounts for all tho deliberate snubs administered ad-ministered to capital whenever it tried to find lodgment hero. ltd oes not look very much as if people wuro comiug here as "paupers," to use that paper's phrase, when they oiler to pay $150,000 for ten acres of land and do not ask the title to be made to them until they have expended somewhere in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $-4,000,000. We presumo so far as tho Herald Her-ald is concerned. judging by its past record, it would fool 'at liberly to stop the undertaking" of the building of the Deep Creek railroad, rail-road, or any other progressive enterprise. enter-prise. That is in the line of its historic policy. We believe it however safe to say that the entire public sentiment as thus far expressed, is in favor of the city selling tho Fort Block as petitioned for. It is evident from the handwriting on the wall that the ltio (irando Western is behind the Provo-Tintio railroad rail-road scheme, and if it is built under thoio auspices it might change the influence of that road from Salt Lake to Provo the same as the inlluenceof the Union Pacific has been changed from Salt Lake toOgden. The people of this city cannot afford to be asleep. |