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Show I0 SOMETHING. Tliers has been a deal of purposeless talk indulged iu by Salt Lake citizens lately on tiie subject of building a railroad, rail-road, starting or aiding manufactories and various other things, but little has come from all this air-castle building. If. is admitted by all people, either of means or without any, that either of the enterprises which have been discussed dis-cussed to tiresome extent., would be of inestimable advantage to this city, some even agree that they would be money-making schemes, aside from the indirect results which would follow their inauguration. But not a man, prominent in the world of loeai finance, has stepped forward and said we mast do these things or the opportunity of making mak-ing this a great city will be lost'and we will be left out in the cold. Not one has said: "It is evident we can not get outsiders to do for us what we ought to for ourselves, and therefore we cannot afford to wait on them any longer; and we must now put our own shoulders to the wheel and move tae chariot ourselves." our-selves." If one of these men ehould come forward and say, ('we must build that Deep Creek railroad and here is $25,000 or $50,000 of my own money to I start it," $50,000 in other subscriptions could be secured inside of ten days. The Times is not particular what oae of these enterprises is put under way first, but it would like to see something done and at once. There are at least ten men in Salt Lake who could better afford to give 850,000 each towards the building of the Deep Creek railroad from here, even if their stock or bonds in the company were worth nothing, rather than to see it start from any other place and this city be left standing on a sid-3 track. It is proper for the men of means to take the lead in these vital matters and we are most anxious to have them do j something. |