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Show A lio.id to Deep Creek Certain. There are times when a newspaper obtains information the source of wh;ch it cannot give without betraying confidence. It is usually regarded with suspicion and as the creation of rer.ortorial fancy. But the Matcments niiido in this item may be re-carded re-carded with confident: nevertheless. Th re has been a gentleman in the city for the past week who has for years been interested inter-ested in having a railroad built to Deep creek. lie is not a resident of this city nor territory. but he is known in this city as a man whose statements state-ments would be accepted as absolutely reliable re-liable should he deem it advisable to be quoted. To a Timks reporter he said last nicht: "I am as certain as I can be of anything that a railroad will be built into eastern Nevada and from there it will be continued to the eoBt, and that work will commence before next spring. It may be that it is the Bacon V .Tones road, but if it is not, it will be either the Rio tirande Western or a line that will be built by the heaviest stockholders of the Union Pacific. The latter road is not in a position to build any extensions, but the individual stockholders are if they want to. ' "Whether that road will start from this city depends on the people themselves; but it surely will not unless some - inducements induce-ments are made. Either road could save a consiierable distance by starting from Tintic, aad they will do so unless the people do something vrMcbal make it of interest to the roads to? v here instead. - f' --' x J., "I have been working on this i - yflia for years, and I feel nothing but tue'-v.Oit friendly interest in this city, but now that I have inducements to offer for building a line westward, I am not going to throw away the opportunity I have for securing one, simply because Snlt Lake people will not take hold of it. "There is one thing against the people here who are most interested in seeing that road built, and that is they are asleep; and I am fearful that they won't wake up until some trans-continental line builds this road and leaves them standing on a side traekr |