Show i iA A RAILROAD WEST i How sharp the railroad competition is in the the East r may may be judged by the efforts the New York Central Centra Centrals s and nd Pennsylvania Central are making to reduce d distance distance dis- dis stance s- s tance curves and grades between New York and andIn 1 Chicago In an air line rine the distance between the two r- r J cities is less than miles But the Pennsylvania c covers covers vers miles and the New York Central l i E o miles i es Both ot roads are busy working o on cutoffs and it it 18 is said that both Pittsburg and Buffalo may be 1 4 reduced educed to something ing less than way stati stations ns when the 0 improvements are are perfected This reminds us that a road west from this diy city and clinging to the great mineral belt that begins in Utah and extends almost the whole distance across across the State of Nevada would reduce the d distance stance between between be- be be be- 1 t tween een here and the Si Sierra by quite miles probably t hr ably miles and continued to San Haan Fran Francisco isco bay r th the difference in favor of the southern route rout w would p 1 mean m man an ana a saving of quite three possible four hours hours' I i travel avel over over- both the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific Pacific At the same time a branch line from the line from the best point to Ios Jos Angeles would 1 j make mike a saving of four hours' hours time between this thib city and the City of the Angels Z i I And this proposed road would strike e or flank i i fifteen districts of rich ich mines More with the first miles built the profits of the road would wohld build ithe the rest about as fast as men and m material could be bei i procured to prosecute the work We do not see what i Salt Salt Lake business men and Salt Lake ake capitalists capitalist who want a fair interest t on their money money are ale doing 1 that they do not organize and have the work begun t Within a week |