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Show WHY IT IS OPPOSED. The Kan on the IasiJo Expose? Some Fam ily Secrota ia the Deep Creek Project, PICKAED'3 POSITION IS DEFINED) h Ha Actuated by D Isintorosterl Motive! or is Ha the Champion of Envi oua Railways? 'I liko enigmas," remarked an alder-man alder-man last evening as tho subject of the old Fort block was dug up for dis.cua- bioll. "What's tho latest?" "Whether Piekard is for the poor man, himself or an antagonistic railroad. rail-road. 1 can hardly reconcile myself to the belief that ho is working for the gratification of any further political ambition because ho sees his obituary on tho wall." "Then what's his object?" "One is lo infuso life into a flog that is as dead politically as a dead language. lan-guage. 1'irkard ban reached a period in lift) where senility Is easily arousod and where it grasps at tho laughing and elusive gtraw to rejuvinato a prouiiuencti that is hopelessly lest. That's human- ity. lie has a clientage ami a fid-lowing fid-lowing in his riotous opposition to tho Deep Cnvk railway that is barely big enough to keep the dyin and lustreless name alive. Uebuked by his confreres in the legislative chamber he has appealed. Jbuiiaiigor-like, to tho corporals squad whose number tho Herald undertook to increase by running run-ning in duplicate proofs, for leadership. leader-ship. No one w ill question his right to ' do that, but is he leading his squad in a course that he believes to be morally right. Jt has long been Liown thai, tho avenue into tho Deep Creek country has been a thing of contention. The Union Pacific that rarely ever does any thing for the frontier until its more astute and prophetic rivals force it, has had that line of road mapped out in its fertile and mercenary imagination for several years. The resources of the country have been no guess for them. The prospectors who penetrated that country coun-try years ago, and at a time when the spanning of a mile meant the sulTering of a martyrdom, furnished the information infor-mation on that. 'They found the ore, but were unable to handle it, Whyf Because the railroad would not permit them. They held prices up to the high- est range of the gamut ol extortion and literally froze the Deep Creek argonauts argo-nauts to death. The result was tho country, so far as its immediate productiveness pro-ductiveness was concerned, went teiu-porarily teiu-porarily to the devil, ami would have been there yet. had not the spirits that are now backing the Deep Creek railway rail-way looked in and detected its slumbering slum-bering riches. f how it took root and by careful nursing, in defiance of siich things as those that now oppose it every man in Zion knows." "Don't overlook the railways," remarked re-marked a bystander. "Excuse me. 1 had not yet arrived at tiiat point. No man could unintentionally uninten-tionally overlook a headlight any more than the railroad could itself could overlook the importance of getting over into the Deep Creek country ; aud that's 1 where the hand of the opposition is tipped again. You see, after the pro-' pro-' jeetors of this lino demonstrated that 1 they meant business tho old lines that hail permitted it to go by for a rainy day were aroused "to the act that t hey . were permitting a jewel to slip through (heir lingers and with a desperate awakening they have sought to recover it. On all sides they have recruited opposition to the Deep Creek railway. They have determined to freeze it to death as they did the prospector who went there in the early day to try and wrest its riches from their lazy dreaming catacombs. Its tho same old story of the man who ignored tho rugged prize 'till some ono else reached for it. And like the day comes the railroad. It has gathered tho shouting shout-ing myrmidons with which to retain the lieeting prize, and Mr. Piekard must stand up and explain before his motives or the public will continue to countenance him as their leader." |