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Show GOULD PLANS ARE THE TALK OF TOWN Dofinite Announcement Creates Widespread Wide-spread Interest in tho City. THE TALK of the city yesterday, especially in railroad circles, was the definite announcement of one of the Gould directors that ho was behind the WeBtern Pacific and that the line would be rushed through to an early completion. It was also a matter of interest to many to have the predictions of the past verified, especially In the matter of connections nnd the route. In the opinion of all well-informed citizens, tho building of the Western Pacific will be the greatest possible benefit to this wholo region, and when It Is definitely given out that Salt Lake is to bo the eastern terminus of the road, as well as the western terminus ter-minus of the Moffat short line, it be comes permanently settled that this city will secure headquarters for the division of each road, although the corporate cor-porate and legal headquarters will be at Denver and San Francisco. Cutting off a whole day In the time to San Francisco Is n matter not generally gen-erally believed In railroad circles, unless un-less the slowest train of the Southern Pacific Is used as the basis for figuring. figur-ing. But In Justice to the older road, it should be remembered that the Overland Over-land limited makes the trip in a little over one day, ao It Is probable that this suggestion Is an exaggeration. If the Western Pacific secures a 600-mlle 600-mlle lino to San Francisco It will be doing very well, and to travel 600 miles with stops means twenty hours, so It might be possible to beat the llmltcd's time by half a day at tho best, llgurlng a day as twenty-four hours. These matters are as nothing, however, how-ever, to the real amount of good resulting result-ing to the State. Tlmo and passenger fares are minor details when figuring on new country to be developed tributary tribu-tary to Salt Lake, new mines opened to local smelters, new stores to be supplied sup-plied by Salt Lake Jobbers, cheaper fuel and many other things that follow fol-low In the wake of the two lines of steel. |