Show SENATOR CLARKS ROAD I I Help for it Should Depend on Route Adopted Editor Tribune The proposed railroad rail-road from Los Angeles being promoted by Sqnator Clark and others should be encouraged by our city In a manner commensurate with the public spirit of lOUt people Any reasonable concessions asked for should granted I Each of the twelve years last past the construction of a Deep Creek railroad rail-road so called has been proposed by divers Individuals and companies but all have come to naught At two different dif-ferent limes the construction of such a I road looked so rosy that the city donated do-nated all of what is known as Pioneer square for depot and terminal facilities facili-ties for such road This donation had I the unqualified approval of our people and would again for we keenly realize the benefits and advantages that would accrue to Salt Lake with a railroad penetrating the Deep Creek country mineral and stockraising country of wonderful possibilities But I very much doubt If our people would approve of giving that handsome piece of ground to a road from Los Angeles via Utah valley and Phoebe This simply means three railroads paralleling each other through tho same country Just BO soon as Senator Clark commences to throw dirt If up this Utah valley the Rio Grande Western and Short Line will hasten their extensions in the same direction and Salt Lake City will be a station on threeYoads from Los Angeles to New York Senator Clarks road would get onethird of the natural traffic traf-fic and Salt Lake would be benefited by the trade of one territory carried by three roads In that event Mr Clarks road should be given no advantage over the others On the other hand if Senator Clark builds over what is called the western route via Rush Skull and Snake valleys val-leys Iri Utah and the Deep Creek country coun-try of Utah and Nevada Fish Springs and Dugway he opens up a mining ranching and stockraising country of wonderful richness the traffic of which to fbetlivhlcd with none Should he build over this route he supplants the Stockton branch of the Short Line gets the carrying of the tonnage of his own great mine at Ophlr captures the Mer cur traffic and his road Is doing a profitable pro-fitable business after the construction of the first forty miles Such a road would bo of Inestimable advantage to Salt Lake and to it and to none other Im in favor of donating the Pioneer square It seems to me that Senator Clark and his associates should grasp the situa tlon and realize the advantage of adopting the western or Deep Creek route and the people of Salt Lake should urge and Insist upon the adop tion ofsuch route as a consideration for bounties and subsidies Let us keep the Pioneer square for the any Deep Creek railroad |