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Show BXCl'KSION HATI.8. Excursion rates between Colorado poiuti and Salt Lake City are telling on the volutin! of travel nnd loadeu trains a.ra rolling into .ion. .Soma representative of the Transmissoiiri association ought to be invited to look into the facts, ami obtain a v'nible demonstration of the prolitable character charac-ter of low round trip fare. Denver The foregoing contains a thought that cannot 18 too carefully considered. When the work of Bottling up the lauds! of Nebraska and Kansas was in progress pro-gress tlio railroad companies weru in the habit of carrying people free who desired to look over the country with a view of investment. The idea that the cost of transporting individuals was in-considerable! in-considerable! win n compared with the udvautago that would accrue from so-curing so-curing settlors along the lines. Tho same principle holds good in this section. sec-tion. Travci h')re is well established, and no ono would extinct the oom- latilrs to give fren transportation, but there can be no question that frequent excursions and very cheap rates would be of the greatest advantage. Tn k Tin i;s has heard as many as a dozen of the Colorado excursionists who have announced their intention of locating here in the near future. They camo out of curiosity, desiring to secure a vacation, trip; they found a place that is delightful as a place in which to live and that has a great business future assured, nnl they have made up their ruluds to pull up stakes ami settla iu .ion. At least ono gentleman of the party is looking for a residence for bis family, lie has mining business in Colorado but ilesirns to get his family located here. Most of tho mining men among the visitors have visited some of the I'tali ea.npj and a number of them will make investments in-vestments hero, while some will eventually event-ually concentrate their operations here. The result will be that the future business of tho railroads will In) permanently per-manently increased becauso of the ox-cursioa. ox-cursioa. Tho ore shipments will be enlarged, en-larged, travel will be added to and tho gemral freight trallic will bo swelled. The same would be true of every other excursion that might be run, and Thk Times hopes that arrangements will be made for a great number of them hereafter. here-after. It is a subjoct that our busiuess men should take hold of in couju notion witri the railroads. Let us have an excursion ex-cursion system established under which people from nil parts of the west would be induced to visit this great region. |
