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Show IT FA VS. We have had with us for several days the dignitaries of the Rio Grande Western West-ern railroad, whose visit at this time had a double object, the remoter one of which we care not at the present stago of developments to divulge. The other one and more immediate object was to look after tho extension of the lino from Slant! to Marysvale in the San Teto valiey, a distance of forty-two miles, which is to be built immediately. It will bo remembered th.it the distance dis-tance of sixty-five, miles on the main line, from Thistle to Manti, was opened en tho iStii of necember last, and while thus barely started it is already paying which shows the chance there is in Utah fur profitable railroad investment. That line and its proposed extensiou opens up a country very rich in agricultural resources and iu line building stone of the kind the Cullom and lately the Kuutsford hotels were constructed of. It also makes accessible a deposit of gypsum of a superior grade which is being made into plaster of Paris, and the suppiy is said to be practically in exhaustible. There is a whole uioun tain of it capablo of furnishing materia for the whole country. Yet without a railroad all that the region produces has been a drug in the market, while now, since the advent of tho iron horse, it will be ttblo to dispose of all it can produce. pro-duce. That Is the state of affairs all through the vast country tributary to Salt Lake City. As for the branch from Manti to Marysvale, it will pass through a fertile valley, rich iu fruits nnd vegetab'es. which will bo marketed in this city and redncA prices here. While the Rio, Crande Western is looking after its own merest, it is indirectly building up the interests of Utah and Salt Luke, and it linds that it is a paying policy. |