Show WHAT THE GREAT NEWS MEANS The ofllclal and welcome news that the final negotiations preparatory to the pushing or the Salt Lake Los Angeles railway had been completed was received re-ceived In this city yesterday with the deepest satisfaction The road will be completed in about eighteen months There is approximately 280 miles yet to build and the whole line will have to be put In order as a firstclass railway with heavy rails lessened curves and reduced grades The Leamington cutoff cut-off is the most Important of these changes and the work on that is well advanced Very extensive improvements improve-ments are making In Los Angeles Mr Clark the mainstay of the Suit Lake Los Angeles road having acquired control con-trol of the belt and the street tracks there At San Pedro where this road will touch the sea extensive docks and wharfs are being constructed with ample seafrontage and the very significant sig-nificant announcement is made that a line of ocean steamers is to be put on by Mr Clark to compete for the trade of the south coast of America and of the Orient This the gives enterprise I the commanding importance of a world I transportation system with the con necting line thereto for this city an open gateway for all comers This railroad line is almost the only one of great Importance entirely free from competition commanding a wide area for its own and connecting two heavily I heav-ily people and rich communities that remains open In this country It i is therefore assured of a handsomely paying business from the first u business busi-ness which can be materially added toby to-by the construction of spurs into rich l mineral regions where goodpriying mines are already opened Among these Deep Creek Stateline Cherry Creek White Pine and Tonopah maybe may-be named the latter would be afforded afford-ed the easiest cheapest for carriage and most direct outlet by this line And what of the effect upon this city Can any one fall to see Its transcend ant Importance It will make this place the distributing point for all the railroad rail-road business of the mountain country About the time that the Los Angeles line is finished the Mount road will be nearing completion At that time also we have no doubt other main transcontinental lines will see that they must also come here or be hopelessly hope-lessly distanced in the struggle for through business The Southern Pacific will have to build in and if it does not utilize its survey via the south shore of the lake some other railroad company com-pany will In a more direct line to the northwest coast Tills city will be the I mountain metropolis the point where I all the railroad systems will converge Its population will increase by leaps and bounds realty will be in demand I and the business of the city will take on majestic proportions = This will be the jobbing center the manufacturing center the ore handling and reducing I center Here < the great t railway shops I will be built here wilt be the headquarters I head-quarters of the roads here the homes of the railway employees a host In themselves What with all these advantages ad-vantages the healing climate and mineral mi-neral springs that will make this the great health resort of the continent the great agricultural possibilities opened up under the new Irrigation law that will give us a thriving farming population and the rich mines that will people the hills with a vigorous 1 and hardy people the t outlook here is the most optimistic ever l seen and as roseate an the most fertile imagination could devise |