Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-10-31 | Page 16 | Build a Uinta Railroad

Build a Uinta Railroad I I There is a splendid chance in in Utah at the present time for the thera ra railroads to Cio clo something big for the stat state There here is an unity awaiting thera to return the favors they have received at att the fe hands lands o of the people The fhe railroads have asked the people to be bere re reasonable with Avith them to give giAre them a chance to develop The people peo peo- pIe pIc have given them every chance and nd have haye them loyally Uinta basin needs a railroad The manufacturing and trade centers enters of f Utah need Uinta basin Denver and Colorado need the Uinta basin and are about to push the Moffat road into that rich territory Should DenV Denver t get there first the Uinta basin would won be forever lost to Utah A railroad means to Uinta basin a market for its products an opportunity to expand A railroad into that section would gi give e eto to the manufacturers of Salt Lake Ogden and other cities a new neAv and larger MOlE market MORE market MORE BUSINESS It would bring to S Salt Lake ake and the other cities the food products and the mineral wealth of the basin Prosperity would naturally grow at both ends of the line ine During the last week eek we Ave have the tIle splendid spectacle of the completion of an interurban line connecting Ogden and Salt Jake AVith Cache valley and southern Idaho That interurban w wits was s financed finance entirely and constructed d exclusively exClusivelY DY by Utah capital If Utah capital can do that jt it can well Avell afford to build a railroad into i Uinta basin one of or lh the richest undeveloped sections of America There are many m men n in the state upon whom fortune has smiled From Prom the fife hearts heart of her hills from the mellow depths of her soils solIs th they have taken wealth from the state Suppose the railroads railroads rail rail- laU roads road propose to these men men that they help finance the Uinta railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road Y There is is a splendid opportunity for an expression of loyalty Joy loy aIt alty and appreciation by byboth both the railroads and the capitalists of tiie the state state There Thele is an opportunity for the railroads and und the men to operate co-operate cg for the welfare of every person and every interest It would interest the railroads more in Utah it would interest Utah more in il the railroads And it would save sav for forthe forthe forthe the state a t territory which it can ill afford to lose and which it it will Avill most certainly lose if action is not taken not taken soon Colorado wants Uinta and Utah wants it The business men of Colorado as a whole know more about the Uinta b basin sin and ana its tremendous possibilities than do dothe the business men of Utah Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado is preparing to act Will Vill any loyal citizen who sincerely desires to operate co-operate with his fellow citizens in making that that Greater Utah we are so fond of talking about admit that Colorado is better able to do this york work than Utah Uta Will Vill any citizen say that a bigger and better task beckons an ambitious people than the opening of Uinta basin so that the mineral wealth of its rugged hills and the agricultural wealth of its vast ast lands may flow into our cities i i an and d. d that ha th the pro products prod prod- 7 of or our ctt city nulls mills and factories ma may ina travel back there thus bringing prosperity to both 1 S