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Show CAN Tllfc COUNCIL, HKftlTATK? For the second time, touiRlit, tho city council is confronted with the question, which it must tleeido, whether it should do, or leave undone, its part toward securing a Salt Lake railroad to Salt Luke City; whether it should encourage or discourago the lino to Deep creek, which by general consent is conceded to be the most important enterprise for the upbuilding of the city proposed in many years. The members of the city council are all property holders ami taxpayers. We do not expect, and would not want them lo bn swayed in their action by Bullish motives, although in this case their interest is coincident with the interest in-terest of every citizen of Salt Luke. That interest affects tho workmen for whom a long season of work is to be provided; it affects tho merchants who furnish the supplies for outfitting parties; par-ties; it affects the bankers who handle the new inflow of cash; it affects the miners, the hotels, tho railroads, in fact, everybody aud everything, from the start and more still at the iinlsh of the enterprise. On the oilier hand, what does it involve? in-volve? The sale of a block for $150,-000, $150,-000, which is all it is worth at this time and will be worth for some time to come unless some such stimulus as the building of tho proposed line enhances its value. That is all there is to the matter. No valid objection to the proposition have been raised. Not enough in its favor can be suid. Can the council hesitate? |