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Show AN AWAKENER. There has been an astonishing change, amounting almost to a revolution, produced pro-duced In the passenger traffic from the Kast to the West and from the West to the East by the Salt Lake Route the San Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake railway. Thousands of people every month visit this city now some of them to remain a few days and some of them possibly to settle here, who without this splendid line would never have seen Salt Lake. The establishment of a fler from Chicago through Salt Lake to Los Angeles, An-geles, and a similar train running east, announcement of the schedule of which was made yesterday, is a most comforting comfort-ing suggestion to the business Interests of this community The builders of the road may have known what they were going to accomplish, accom-plish, but they have agreeably surprised everybody else in this community, for no one but the people Intimately connected con-nected with the enterprise could pos-Blblj pos-Blblj conceivi such a great gain In so short a time. The toad i already doing a freight and passenger business far beyond what might ordinarily have been expected in five years after its building; and the continuing Increase Is In astonishing ratio Salt T.ake is hound to be a great city because the railway situation and the Industrial situation In the State will compel that, no matter what the other conditions. If there shall he united effort ef-fort here, as there an be, this city must soon outstrip all rivals In the Intermoun-taln Intermoun-taln country. The building and operation opera-tion of the Salt Iake Route helped to a i. I: up the community. |