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Show THE It ROAD. Banker Bacon Back in Salt Lake City this Bright Winter Morning. HE BEINGS THE GLAD HEWS That the Deep Creek Eoad will be Built when the Balmy Breezes Blow, Mr. James II. Bacon and wife returned re-turned from New York city this morning morn-ing and he was the recipient of many hearty congratulations upon his return. His coining has been anxiously awaited for the general public had become impressed im-pressed with the belief that the fate of the Deep Creek railroad depended upon the result of his pilgrimage. He had scarcely reached his banking bouse this morning before he was visited vis-ited by scores of people who inquired earnestly as to the probable fate of Salt Lake city's pet railroad project. Among those who called was a reporter for The Times, who was cordially greeted by Mr. Bacon, and who immediately imme-diately propounded the following inquiry: in-quiry: "Mr. Bacon, there is an impression around that you went east upon business busi-ness connected with the DeeD Creek railroad. Is that so?" Mr. Bacon replied: "lam informed that there is an understanding in the city that my trip to the east was in the inlarest of the Deep Creek railroad; tho understanding was correct, fori visited the east, to perfect, as far as possible, certain preliminary plans, in counec-with counec-with tho road." "When will the work of construction begin?" was asked. "1 am doing all that can he done to hasten the time when the active work of construction shall begin. Undoubtedly Undoubt-edly the public recognizes the fact, that in order to build a railroad the length of the one contemplated, a vast amount of work must be done. The work is not confined to the mere matter of grading, laying ties and rails, aud contracting con-tracting for material, but before the active operations are commenced there is much more to do than any one not conversant with railroad building can imagine. The man who builds a.m a house, although he may have his own architect, and let the work by contract, finds before it is completed that he has personally a great deal of work to do. and the building of a railroad is correspondingly corre-spondingly greater. "Have you met with any obstacles with regard to your railroad project?" "In the construction of the Deep Creek railroad, myself and associates have met with difficulties which no man could have foreseen, and which some have feared would prove insurmountable. insurmounta-ble. In the early fall no person imagined imag-ined that the whole financial world, before the first of January, would be upon the verge of a panic, in'which every man's purse strings would be tightened, that condition, however ,has existed and I have been compelled to meet it. I am pleased to say that a much better feeling exists among financiers, finan-ciers, and that confidence has been restored re-stored in a great measure since the first of January." "Did you accomplish what you hoped to as the result of your trip?" "1 am thoroughly satisfied with the results of my trip, and am inclined to predict that I shall be able to demonstrate demon-strate within the time limited by the franchise granted by the city, that the Deep Creek railroad is 'a condition and not a theory.' " "Do you desire any more aid from the citizens of Salt Lake city than has already been given." " J he road will be of such great value to Salt Lake city and Utah, that I think I am justified in presuming that all of our citizens will aid me in tho prosecution of the work, by giving their moral support to the enterprise if they can do no more." "Can The Times announce as a settled set-tled fact that the railroad will be built." "I think it is sufficient for me to say that I entered upon the project to build tho Deep Creek railroad in good faith, aud that even tno most ungenerous critics of tho enterprise will bo convinced con-vinced by spring time, that Salt Lake is to have its long sought railroad to the west." |