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Show THE SALT LAKE RAILROAD. A Correspondent Takes a Gloomy View of the Proposed Line from "an Francisco. The special correspondent of The Times in San Franeiseo, "Vaguers,'' is not very hopeful in the matter of the San Francisco & Salt Lake City railroad project. We trust he is wrong, and we trust furthermore that the publication of his views on the matter will tend to arouse the people of the Golden Gate to prompt action. Under date of September Sep-tember 16, he writes: I It is to he hoped that the people of Salt Lake have not built suy gr 'at expectations upon the early completion cf . he Great Salt Lake A San FraneihCo railroad. If tuey have, they are doomed to disappointment.- So. long 'a that scheme remained re-mained on paper it was a ilr.e oi.e. and boomed alone in great shape Its promoters received ample encouragement in wind. They were slapped on the back continually, told they had a great scheme aud a popular one, and made to believe that the people of Sun Francisco were just crying for a competing ruiroad. But when the promoter!; began to ask for subscriptions to their atoik, they met another sontj. The enthusiastic enthusi-astic merchant retired into the background. He did not want another railroad half so much as he did ai month or so ago. and coulti not be induced to subscribe for even abeygarlySlOU worth of stock. It was theitory of the Central Pacific over again. Jf the new road io to be built it will have to be witu other than tan Francisco capital, and unless outsiders st?p in the line will never tret lie- 1 yond the paper It is true, there have teii a good many funerals of late in which "leading citizens" played the title role as it were, but there mus-t " be ninny more before poor old " antiquated ' au Francisco can boast a tithe of the enterprise of the other coast or inter-mountain towns that are no rapidly outstripping her. it is a lamei t-able t-able fact thar thj- city anda large part of the sta'e as well is still living on the memories of the pat, and those wholiold ths spokes of the wheal urn content to let thins iiliy drift with the current without makiuyr an tff nt to keep op with the procession, which has left ns far in the rear. WOETUI.BSS 8EUKK SYSTEM. An apt illustration of this drifiin? policy was afforded no longer ao than yesterday, when a proposition was niaae in the board of supervisors to takte the iwital i-tsps fo? providing an adequate sewer system. Qur present sewers are a farce. Some of them run up hill aud some down; largfl ones discharge into sinuiler ore. and some have nodischsrge at all. Many are entirely choked up, some tire caved in and otl.ers have neither beginning begin-ning nor end. A more tJUiptin? field for "the cholera or pome other epidemic could r.ot r.e fcund, Yet when it was proposed thai the preiimina y etes ie taken for submitting ta the pe mlii the question of the advisability oi providing provid-ing a;' adequate sewer sytt mi, it was promptly and overwhelininrly voted down. That every year's delay mcaus'iinmTisely inciensed cost for something that mntt be done ssine titne, is f uliy apparent, yet the s.lurian element tnat control is abm:dautly satisfied wirh the present (status, it has answered "iince 'lli" and they see no reaton for any radical change. Noth-inar Noth-inar short of tin epidemic of the worst kind can apparently have any in.luenre upon them. Ther are peoplo of whom it is eshl that only an earthquake earth-quake can budao tt ein. The San Francisco silu- rian is worse than that. The earthquake remedy has been tried, but without avail. Now bring ou the cholera and see what effect it will hate. - A Move In the Right Direction. A mceting'of representatives of the railroad rail-road organizations in the country will be held in Chicago on the 28h inttatit for the purpose of taking action to encourage and induce congress to consider the question of railway safety appliances. The meeting was called by a committee of yardciasters who were appointed last June at the annual meeting meet-ing of their association in Lincoln, Neb. Headlight Flashes. General Passger Agent Bennett of the Rio Grande Western is in Denver. E. E. Griffith lias been reinstated as station' sta-tion' agent at Peachblow, on the Midlaud. C. C. Smith of the Rio Grande Western at Denver denies that he ever contemplated re-; re-; signing. A statutory lien has been filed on the Elk Mountain ' railway in Colorado for $170,-173.93. $170,-173.93. An order of sale has been asked for. Work on the Cripple Creek extension is being pushed. Two hundred graders are now at work and the -final contract will bo let in three weeks. One thousand men are employed in the construction of the Santa Fe, Presoott & Phirnix railway in Arizona. A mile of track Is bsiug laid daily. Last Friday at Platte canyon, on the Denver, Den-ver, Leadvilie & Gunnison branch of the Union Pacilic, Conductor Ed. Clay had his right hand badly crushed and several bones broken. The Colorado-Utah association has issued amendments, effective September 23, showing show-ing a reduced rate of 01 cents per 100 on clay hoof slutting in Icbs than carload lots from Colorado common points to Utah common points. A collision last Thursday on the Rio Grande "at Castle Rock, caused by No. 4 passenger train running into an open switch, on which a freight train was stauding, resulted re-sulted in both engines be reduced to scrap iron, but no one was hurt. C P. Atmore of the Louisville and Na h-ville h-ville has been selected as the third arbitrator in the two Santa Fe appeal cases one against the decision of Chairman Caldwell, finding it was unjustified in making a $12 round trip rate tu Denver, and tho other against the acting chairman of the association associa-tion authorizing a $12 one-way rate to Denver, Den-ver, and charging them with conspiracy in debarring the Atchison from participation in such rate. -i V . 1 |