Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-10-23 | Page 4 | Fulfilling the Telegram's Prediction

FULFILLING THE TELEGRAM'S PREDICTION. . The official anounccnient that the Burlington railroad will be bu41t to Salt Lake without delay is confirmation of what The Telegram Tele-gram has all along endeavored to impress upon its readers that Salt Lake is to become an important railroad center. The Telegram has all along been a booster for Halt Lake. It has required no prophetic vision to read the signs of the time. The announcement of the coming of the Burlington is one of those things that have been expected. Nevertheless, H is big new good news. It means that Salt Lake is to become the gateway to the coast. With the opening of the Salt Lake Route to the coast and the beginning of the construction of tl? Western Pacific, interests which have been lying back will reach further to the West. Not only will the Turlington come to Salt Lake, but the Northwestern North-western and the Rock Island will make this their objective point. This will be the gathering place, the gateway of the leading transcontinental trans-continental lines. The results cannot but be pleasing to those who wish for the -"growth and prosperity of Salt Lake. Already the smelting interests are spreading out and preparing for the rapid growth of mining. The construction of the new smelt--ers on the bank of Great Salt lake, affording as they will employment employ-ment to thousands of men, will carry in their wake the establish-, ment of many coincidental industries. The center of the mining industry is rapidly and surely tending tend-ing Utahward. This fact is recognized by the capitalists who build railroads, hence they are anxious to get in and share in the coming prosperity. Salt Lake is to be more than a gateway to the coast. .This valley val-ley will in course of time be a scene of industrial activity almost unparalleled un-paralleled in the history of the country, fulfilling the prediction made by The Telegram that Utah is to be thexPennsylvania of the West.