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Show Salt Lake 8c Utah Rattway Builder of Vast Industrial Empire In Salt Lake and Utah Counties, Due to Foresight of W. T. Orem lng coata would allow (or ladmtrUi to malrlftlls. Th rm Itn t r?ovnlirl bf Its ltnportnr and th moat aatU-factnrv aatU-factnrv coru-tuslon io draw from Ita briaf ktatry tha fact that tt haa dona a great deal ftw Utah and haa nap. throMgh ita "plonaarlnc lrlod- Looking backward to th beginning begin-ning of th twentieth century one might see Utah county, that vast eitnans of fertile land stretching south from the Traneverae range a comparatively undeveloped country Thrr wrrs no great Industries. Trade and commerce were la th caterpillar stage.' Tha country, unfortunately, bore th stamp of provincialism. Today that great eipana of country is being gradually converted convert-ed Into one of the arteries o( the commerce that serve to satisfy tha world s neede. Nlerl mills are mp. Idly rlalng from their foundations. Trad haa ceased tn be confined t 1 I tah and more than so cars of fruit are shipped annually out or thla aec-t Ion to Raatern markets. Provincialism la disappearing and a greater sympathy with world problem Is being developed. That growth, that rapid progress Is perhaps due mor to the construction con-struction of the etalt I-ek fth railroad, commonly called the Orem line, than any other on factor. Kx-tendlng Kx-tendlng for aeventy-ela- miles Into th heart of that fruitful district, tha railroad has been the stimulus for the Increaeed activity, the erection erec-tion of factories and the death' blow to provincialism. It haa increased the vslua of the area through which It paeaea and haa served the people of that part of th etale efficiently through Ms passenger and freight facllitlea Probably there la no greater evidence evi-dence uf th growth of the section and Us commercial prominence than atallatlr which ehnw that In 1I only j;t) cars aer handled hy Ihe flrem line, as compared with Hilt ill l23, and a estimate baaed upon e. ' . It I , ' th first tfln months this year of' 11.000 cars. The flgurea speak for themselves. They are a Beit-acknowledgement Beit-acknowledgement of the part tne Orem line la playing In stimulating tha industry In th small area thatj It laps. Tha flgurea on th In- crease of shipping on tha Orem line are as foilowe: far handled In ! Isl. 2!0; 1817. l': nil, l;'l ll. 7n.ll; 120. (l3s; 1J1. Mil; 121, flit. I FUTURK 19 BRIGHT, Th remarkable feature of this Increase tn traffic la that It I still' tn Its Infancy. Authorities predict j that tha future holds mor In stare: , for th Orem lln than th present. 1 I ,h tncu belna; bum out by lh ' ! jfmens building program now go-i go-i Ig on at Ironton and th various associated Industries that ar eer-. eer-. tain to follow tha ateel mill Into the aiat. The Orem line la a home product. prod-uct. It Is owned and operated hy t tah people, built by Utah capital and most of the money taken In by them is spent at home. The entire payroll la distributed locally and spent locally. (Hate, county and city taxes, which ar In, emcees em-cees of f 70.000 per year, are paid ' entirely to support local government. govern-ment. Nearly every share of atock In the company Is owned by local! cltlsens and Interests who hav a! large Investment, whlrh means that! every dollar earned la distributed In lha slate. Th physical property is located entirely within I'lah and thus every dollar spent for extensions exten-sions and betterments must b spent within the atate also. i U nique la th development of ttaej ' Orem lln I th growth of th freight buslnssa Prior to the tlm that th Halt lake at t'tah Kle. trie . was constructed nearly every elec-! elec-! trie read In the I'nlted Mates was built and equipped for passenger busln and only minor frvlght hlpnwnta, but the Orem Una was built to handle both passenger and freight shlpmenia In the words of President Orem, "We saw the large amount of very fertll lands In th southwest part of this county coun-ty that wer cspabl of development develop-ment with more water and better transportation facilities.. We saw th towns of Utah county re pre. aentlng a population at that tlm of around 40.000 strtfef, out between be-tween Utah lak on the one old and tha mountains on th othr, and w dcldd that fright aervic waa what waa needed." iDiswtixs irsno VP. At .present the seventy-els miles of Orem railroad serves ths principal prin-cipal ritlea and towna In Kelt lAke and 11 a h counties, sxtending from Payeojt io Halt l.ke. sad operate a branch line from tiranger to Magna, mattered In this section are upwards up-wards of eighty Industries, which have sprung Into existence elnce the building of the road. Four sugsr facloriee are aerved by the line, five modern equipped preserving preserv-ing aad canning tacteriea, two large tend and gravel pita besides numerous nu-merous large lumber and coal yarde sre fed and refed by Ihe Una 8lnce the road was built, 16.00 acrss of sddltkonal lands have been put under un-der Irrigation In the eouthwestera tart of Malt Lake county and the strawberry project Is watering 7ft.-PO0 7ft.-PO0 Sfres sdditlonal land In the vicinity vi-cinity of fprlngvllla. Spanish Fork end Psveen. whlrh sdda greatly te ihe poealiilllUaa at growth la those sect lone. Th orem llaa waa thejast sf the j three Utah electrbs lines ts be constructed. con-structed. It started about ths I time In 1911 that the spsrk at htara- !i wo set the world- ablate and opeaed i sore that Is not yet healed The work hexsn here and continued south until completed at Payson. tverr foot of Ihe I rack was laid to standard guag snd forged lo steam I line atandarda. The paaeenger mo-I mo-I tor cars are high powered, all-steel cars. wrlKhtng lleilo pounds each. 1 and the heat ihe car niakere knqw how o build. At preeent there art e'even of such cars and four trailers, trail-ers, three expreea rare, tor baggage, bag-gage, eapress aad milk, and 131 atandard freight cara and alx modern mod-ern freight locomotive In eplte or the fifty stops between Hall laki and Paveon. Ihe lime mads between terminals la excellent. Aetae from Ihe traffic equipment, the road Is equipped with convenient elation, good sidings and a solid rostlbed. Todsy Ihe .".It lske At Vlsh railroad rail-road bsa through routes ana retea to or from all paints on th Orem lln in connection with any eteam Una or combination of eteam llnea to or from sny point In ihs I'nlted otstes. Psssenser travel haa Increased In-creased from ISA dally to approximately approxi-mately 3i0 dally, which I clear testimony that the Orem 1 making progress In both freight and passenger. pas-senger. YIIIO K0 rtlRMIOHT. Probahly the great success of the Orem line Is due to the. vision and foresight Of W. C. Orem. president of the Halt Lake A Utsh railroad. Coming to Halt lake In IMS. h immediately im-mediately became interested tn the iettempla at electric railroad building build-ing and welched wlta eeger Intereat the building of Ihe flrat electric line Murray In. I0. and a short llns from Rait Uka lo Hot Hprlngs In 1tl. Mr. Orem saw the posal-Hilttles posal-Hilttles of a line tapping 1'tBh county. He knew yeara ago when he built 'hla line that Ihe eloeeneaa ! uf coal and ths chesp maaufaciur- |