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Show Zirilllzit New Era for Salt, Lake Dawns. The epoch-marking announcement of Senator W. A. Clark and associates that the San Tedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railway is an incipient reality, . within eighteen months to be a completed whole, is occasion for most cordial congratulation all around. And, first, Salt Lake City must be congratulated. Ko project looking to her commercial aggrandizement aggrandize-ment has exceeded in importance this one. ' Indeed, not since the last of the great transcontinental roads was built, has there been a traffic enterprise of such magnitude and of such consequence to the entire West. This city begins a new era with Senator Sena-tor Clark's welcome announcement an era that cannot but become the most brilliant in the history his-tory of this favored metropolis. And Los Angeles must be congratulated next; for that city is to be brought within close commercial relations with the next biggest community between Denver and the coast, and with an intermedfate region fabulously 1 ICU A Aft V XJCXif llvll uliU vliltl AAA a ilv a U , n vui t-aa. suotij Senator Clark, Senator Kearns, K. C. Kerens, Thomas E, Gibbon, David Keith, Perry S. Heath, W S. McCornick, Reed Smoot, William A. Clark, and their associates must be congratulated upon their faith in the possibilities of the new road, their iluck in investing their millions, and their energy and courage in consummating their purpose. Now let the croakens give their last croak and die; let the obstructionists give one last butt of their stubborn heads against a stone-wall jind annihilate themselves; let the mossbacks of a bygone past fold , their hands across their insensible breasts and expire ex-pire this new era of Salt Lake has no place for croackers, obstructionists and mossbacks. Old things are passed away, behold all things are be-, come new. |