Show trade or of utah the trade of our people and the best bes t it to be attracting means in cans of securing 0 appears attention broin our little tr 0 in m neighbors bogli bot it eist aist aud west of us 0 the th merchants merchant of san francisco are attempting to do what now doing or they should have done several years ago they could easily h have ave opened up with a coin comparatively ively email outlay of capital a cheap and rapid com communication mulli with the people of this great hasin int and thereby secured thair thuir the ir trade it is ia a well understood fact among commercial iner cial men acil that th trado of a community when once directed to a particular source dource and maintained for several years becomes 11 very difficult to change it has been a matter of surprise to many of our far seeing people that no effort should have bare been made maae until this late day by our western neighbors towards securing the object now in view there th gre ran can be no question in the minds of Bena iUle business men that the movement of the san francisco chamber of commerce Comi nerce for the opening up of aline n lino of communication aith our territory by way of the colorado river will if carried out be of great importance to the trade of that city but we or ara I 1 1 e quitu 1 sure that they would havo have derived far greater benefits had bad they inaugurated augu rated the movement afew few years earlier and not to have waited until the union pacific railroad was waa completed to 71 within a few miles of our doors then the merchants of san francisco could have monopolized nearly the entire trade of the territory now they cannot reasonably expect but a small email I 1 share st louis and chicago are arc awake and moving in the matter and will undoubtedly secure the lions share of the I 1 tride trade of this section there can be ba no qi question estion as to the ability of the union pacific railroad companas Comp anys access fully competing in the carrying trade with any aidy other line of communication to the western country railroads have been proven to bo be the cheapest transportation agents known and it is presumed that eastern merchants have sufficient influence with the railroad companies to induce them to so ao regulate their charges for freight that competition will be out of the question it is for the interest inte reit of the union pacific P road aaa ai much as for the eastern merchants that a low tariff of charges on freight should be adopted at the start all classes and interests will thereby be greatly benefited we are re pleased to aeo tho subject at tr trading acting the attention that it is a great revolution must take place in the prices of nearly every article of merchandise now consumed in this ibis territory immediately upon the completion of either cither of the lines of communication so mote it ibbe be |