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Show THE RAILROAD SHOPS.<br><br> Since the appearance, in our issue of the ??th inst. of an article upon this subject, several of the leading citizens of Logan have expressed to us their hearty endorsement of the sentiments therein expressed. There is a deep feeling among of many our citizens against allowing another site for the shops to be fixed upon, without the making of an effort to induce the railroad company to locate here. To sit supinely down and see so rich a prize pass beyond their reach, is contrary to the feelings of the vast majority of our citizens who know anything of the interests involved. Logan wants the railroad shops and she should have them. She can offer inducements to have them here which no station on the U. & N can compete with for a moment. She is morally entitle to them, for the existence of that road today is largely due to the energy and farsightedness of some of her leading men, who infused the rest of the county with the interest and zeal that impelled them to join in the work and build the road, and these same leaders in the enterprise met with heavy financial losses during their connection with it.<br><br> If the shops are erected at Eagle Rock, the railroad company will be obliged to erect a large number of tenement houses for their employes [employees] to live in, and, in short, the entire town will have to be created by the railroad company, and from extremely meagre [meager] materials too. All the building material would have to be conveyed there, making the cost greatly in excess of what it would be here. The workmen who would seek employment in the shops would be of a transient class, difficult to control, unreliable, and of a very different class from those who could be obtained in Logan, the majority of whom would have homes and families here. This is a matter of great importance to employers.<br><br> Among the inducements which Logan can offer as reasons why the shops should be erected here, are an abundance of water, water works for the protection from fire of buildings, &c. [etc.], a steady class of workmen, a town which is thrifty, enterprising, growing rapidly, and under excellent municipal control, cheap building materials, and cheap labor.<br><br> To these advantages we may add that of an abundance of land, for even if the city and county authorities took no steps to provide the railroad company with the land they might need, we are assured that this would be done by private enterprise upon a guarantee from the railroad company that the shops would be built and permanently remain here. We will warrant that a canvass among the business men of the county would immediately produce a sum sufficient for the purchase of all the land necessary for the uses of the railroad company.<br><br> From a pecuniary point of view it is a matter of superlative importance to Logan and to Cache county to [unreadable line] if they [unreadable] time there will be a atown of several thousand inhabitants there, a new centre [center] for the northern Utah and Idaho trade will be created, and the prestige of Logan, as a commercial centre [center], will be sadly lessened. If they are built here, the population of Logan will be increased one-half in a very short time; many thousands of dollars will be spent in the city every week, in addition to our present excellent trade; the value of real estate will be very greatly augmented; the revenues of both city and county will be greater by thousands of dollars annually, than they now are; our workingmen will be provided with lucrative employment, with cash for their pay, we will have a daily paper here, and in a thousand other ways will our general prosperity be advanced.<br><br> We have excellent reasons for the belief that Logan can have the shops if she will take active and earnest measures to secure them. If, for instance, some of our leading citizens would call a mass meeting, adopt a suitable preamble with resolutions for presentation to the officers of the railroad company, which should set forth our claims and views relating the subject, and which should guarantee to the company all the land and water that might be necessary, we believe that might be necessary, we believe the site of the shops would be fixed at Logan. Not that the company care so much for the few thousands that these would cost, but they do desire an assurance of welcome, and that the benefits they will bestow upon our town will be appreciated and will, at least in part, be reciprocated by our citizens. |
