| Show slake make provo proto the junction ool col dodges sta statement that the rio eio orande grande western company will build through provo canyon to park paik city atan at an early date and that no bluff is intended will be pleasing information to the public generally As aa the manager says that company is is not in in the habit of talking and nothing little giant has been forging ahead since becoming a utah road and it now BOW ranks ranka among the best beat pieces of roadbed in the country the publio public is pleased with the efforts of the company col dodge says saya he its in pretty well satisfied in his own mind where the junction would be and rather left the inference that the branch would start elat ela t east just north of prevo city but it may depend somewhat on en how bow the people treat us were his bis words indeed it will ivill depend a good deal on the th people we dare aare say and citizens of should be alive this time to their opportunities there was a time when the machine shops of the rio eio grande western could have been secured for provo had a certain public square been allowed for the purpose but certain parsimonious persons and strict construe zionists lot let the opportunity pass unimproved we hope the city council will not themselves find finX hampered by legia legal obstructions as they thought themselves when asked to appropriate 50 for far the ath of july celebration when it comes to giving a bonus ifsich if such a thing be necessary to secure the park city junction at provo what the public generally endorses andor soa the council cauncil can very consistently do without the fear of criticism what is for the general good of the corn com ought also to be adopted re Rard gard lesa less of ahw many little legal difficulties which technical persons dolight delight in springing we know riot not the sims aims of the railway company but provo has baa a good many manya acres crets of valuable public ground just north of the city perhaps a piece of it could be utilized by the railroad company to good purposes and provo would feel none the poorer if the company intends building through the reservation as the manager says it has in view then round houses and other equipments of a junction city will necessarily have to be located at provo and the park north of the city would be a splendid place it seems to xi us for them and the ibe benefits that would accrue to the tha public from such works would well justify the bonus A good deal of this talk is mere surmising ising of course but we do desire that provo be awake to the opportunities port unities in the extension that is about tobe to be built irmay it may meantie mean the making of the city the reservations are soon to be opened and of course a railroad will be pushed in there at an early date it will in all probability be the extension through provo canyon and what an advantage go such a road will be to the junction city the city can become the distributing point for a rich new district and many merchants ought ts to grow wealthy ought to be ba made the junction |
