Show V SPRING TRADE OPENED I Excellent Business Is Being Done by V Merchants Generally Spring trado has opened up anti It has begun In a very satisfactory manner man-ner according to the views of merchants V 1 mer-chants who were seen yesterday They cCimpla ned considerably of the trade done during the first two months of the I year but have taken on new faith with L the sales of the past two weeks The outlook Is very encouraging indeed in-deed said T G Webber yesterday I look for a very busy spring Every V Indication now points to that end As to the good the Southern Pacillc will do us in case that company should l see I fit to abandon the proposed cutoff and come to this city by way ot the southern V south-ern end of the lake why It would sim ply he Incalculable That the company com-pany will decide to build by the southern south-ern way Is to my mind almost certain I never had much faith In the lake cutoff scheme because there Is necessarily neces-sarily a large element of danger attach V lIlt toll to say nothing of the expense oj constructing the r adOl the trou ble All will remember with what dlfll cufly the piles were driven for theE the-E Saitalr pavlllon and there Is no rea onto on-to believe that the railroad company would have any easier job at the north ond of the lake Then there comes the dangers from the high winds and the salt water But down the western shore of the lake the line could be built for a very small sum comparatively That should have been the route of the V road In the first place and it Is safe I to say that the Southern Pacific real ized this many years ago V |