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Show waa not either the east or the west that waa the chiefest factor, that when Mr. Harriman firat came hare hia elear intuition made no mistake when it decided de-cided that the desert had more rewards for a railroad rail-road that would open its treasures than lands already al-ready provided with them ; and reasoning directly direct-ly from that we think -he will see where the moft appropriate place would be to lift up a monument to hia memory. The men who managed the roadt prior to Mr. Harriman 's coming made the mistake of -turning. all their profits to their eastern and Western tcrminblx, and never 'appreciated what the interior was to them. But it was of the site jn tue heights that we were speaking. On the heights overlooking Athens Phidias built thi great Parthenon Parthe-non with its marvelous sculpture and fashioned and set up the wonderful statue of Athenie, all of ivory and gold, knd these works drew auch a reverence rev-erence and fame about Athens that though twenty-five twenty-five centuries have since been unwound that fame still attache- to the place and to the heights on which those wonders were wrought. - That site does not compare with the one Salt Lake City possesses on which to rear s temple and statues, not U heathen goda and goddesses, but to learning and industry ; a great industrial temple to be a memorial to one . who built paths for the chariots of commerce to roll over, bearing the products pro-ducts of an empire, who in a few brief years awoke to life and rehabilitated 6000 miles of highway which had become a wreck and electrified it with s life and TneTgyw-hiclr madr-rujssible a-neh industrial indus-trial temples as had not been dreamed of before. Such a man should have a monument, and it should bi set in a spot that would give to the man and the place a fame that the centuries could not diminish. di-minish. ' THE ONE SIGHT PLACE. There are several hundreds of acres of ground i;p back of Capitol bill which, with a few hundred dollar spent upon the land and a few hundred mere exwnded to make a boul ivard to the land, would make it an incomparable aite for a public building. We (tar incomparable because no other city in America or the world outside eould paral-11 paral-11 it. Tha view from it is so marvelous, the surround-icga surround-icga are such a duster of wonders that no man i ao dull that his pulses will not quicken when he visits it. And il is not twenty minutes ride from the Utah hotel or temple. W. suggest that the mayor, couucil. the governor and leading citizens fet together, go up there, while there make a preliminary pre-liminary survey and estimate of what it would cost to build the boulevard to it; bring in the needd water and plant a couple of hundred trees, and then if they - ere all agreed, to write a modest letter let-ter to Mrs. Hairiraan stating that a rumor waa persistent per-sistent here that it waa her intention at some time U- endow a university somewhere in the west; 'hat i' that was tme Salt Lake would hold it an honor to sell her . sitoor it for the sum of $1 and p repp re-pp re it so that Wy f he time she w ready to act in the matter it would he a place of great beautv in ' itself; and that it already commnndK a view, the enchantment of which must be Keen to be comprehended. compre-hended. Further to ak her if she holds in cou-templation cou-templation such an endowment, that she will not locate the place until she can personally see ail that alt the neighboring states have to offer in comparison. com-parison. The lady certainly could fake ao offense at sut-h a communication, . . Mr. Bai.eroft and the other leading railroad officials offi-cials may he relied upon to explain to Mrs. Harri-mno Harri-mno the parr thr hor Line railroad played in ere-s'ini: ere-s'ini: Mrfcnrriiuan't erm,'ortuni anc' frrjm th.t -x; iouaiiuii ilrs. ilarnmac wili readily set ihft; it |