Show PAPER RAILROADS A mormon talks on them and booms KEEP ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF CITY somo suggestions for the of the cily editor of the ENQUIRER for the last few the even tenor of the life that the citizens of provo used to lead lias beau somewhat disturbed by a speculative boom in real estate mainly engineered by a few real estate abenis who have bought and u jew pieces of property at a egure ranging considerable cons aboe what the citizens here have been used to buying and sell iii land this has created somewhat feverish and unhealthy excitement in the community which it is to be hoped it ill not buller lon or beriou iby but the result is anre to be felt io an burden of taxes for the coining ear would perhaps bu it ahe casiby produced alie cucut would in any way the with chich to bear tt is extra burden but it ib to be d hubli will bot in the atie fact that a few properties change possessors even at unusual high priced and that a few agents realize on their bargains wiil the community at large our lands will produce no bigger crops under loom prices than without them and our will s acly be moved upon by tin s agency to bring forth an abundance of fruit aud vegetables if the pruning knife and the lioe are idar aal if to the dilli sent use of implements lo 10 added a copious stream of water of which there ia now a od o d pt ct it ib only reason abe to suppose the result will be satis to the boom or no boom diw asih ila lean alie initial baart ing point ot bex beseril eril ciper railroads aur ing ahe last year or bo some of theae leave of our awn construction and ottice leave been enies to our bewildered view by traneka tra nera ot turn of mind come to us as the harbina eis of alie glad lid a impetus 10 busi activity and an increased only would grant them certain rights of way through our ht and lands to build depots etc etc our leading citizens and city council have been by these business evangelists and alie committees on streets and have spent dais in showing such agents around alie city and devising suitable routes for their broj active broadi not long since five or six gentlemen le presenting themselves as members f i the board of arfie utah nevada A california railroad coin any created quite a stir among us mass and alie subject was taken up by the city fathers resolutions were passed tendering bliem certain rights of way but just as alie arrangements range ments were to be completed the magnates of alie proposed road had more urgent business somewhere bome where else and like the arabs they metaphorically sp eakin silently folded their tents avay and now the president of the game company lias come ind wishes to take where liia vanished co laborers left it and at the urgent of aliis gentleman as many members of the city council as could be found in alie acty were called together new years eve there being barely a quorum present but these lew were most persistently urged by to granting alic s dul company alic choice of right of way overt vio streets on the east bide of alie city and two streets on the west side together with the right to cross ovir neaily all alie intervening streets the council v ery w isely concluded not to net hastily in a matter n herein their constituents are so much interested and alie draft of the ordinance was referred to alie joint committee on and railroads with ansti notions to report at the net meeting abich ill le bield tonight to night alie with an admirable frank nebs stated as his reason for wanting ao many streets to chose from that alie people mould bid against eacle other lor alie location of alie road and thus make it interesting for themselves and profitable for liis company also eliat if persons ov ning property on one street would not come down they could be reasoned by moving alie road oer to alio next street the gentleman also cited philadelphia as in example forero 0 to hollowit fol lowit lii ing granted u railroad alie right of ay on one of its central streets now e aie ly milling eliat philadelphia or adv uty shall arrange these mattera to sunt s cs aliey may tw e their idea v 0 ours provo is not a compa t city tenement Iio ube and alie poverty and squalor concomitant we io I o no for a condition of things biere on step right from your kitchen doar into alie ve alko to 0 n a gaiden so eliat lien our ca didia tep our door alicy must not ol 01 necessity be on alie or on giue kotlier folks promises aliis lias i been one of the charm charmi i which has made our lovely in the eyes of stranger and v are in no hurry to obliterate characteristics we have seen what railroads hae done for kotlier cities in our neighborhood who diio granted them rights of way through main streets alie are in perpetual danger and in some places as for instance lehi alio llio company acer put the street in alie condition agreed upon hut stagnant pools of vater are left on both hides of the grade much to alie damage and inconvenience of the railroad corporations may appear very plin hlo when they want any favors hut when they can get there they are hound to have bilings pretty much their on way let us therefore keep them on alie outskirts of our city wo can if alie citizens then choose 10 locate in their vicinity they can do so hut dont inflict a railroad upon residents aho vho do not them as long as there is no loual necessity A |