| Show THE COMING RAILROAD one of the clearest refutations reputations to the often ofte n repeated assertion made against our people that they desire isolation and to be shut out from the rest of mankind is the strong desire manifested to see the two lines of the union pacific railroad reaching this city they think of the long weary journey from the missouri river which so many of them have traveled and earnestly wish for that journey to be shortened for their fr friends endi who yet jet will wiil 17 fall follow j w I 1 Z their path P th they look at the high price demanded for all imported goods machinery and everything which has to be freighted here a and na they hope to see prices reduced with a quicker more regular au lar and cheaper mode of freight freighting ng while many of them anticipate the pie pleasure asure of visiting their friends easland west without the risk toil toll and prolonged 9 time expended in such a journey at present the lines now being madr made made toward this point from the east and west when completed will undoubtedly b be 0 the road on which the travel between europe and the eastern states and the west of this continent china japan and the east indies will move when the journey from london to bombay can be made in less than one half the time by this great overland route that is occupied in crossing europe and tr traveling a the route now used it is but reasonable to think that for quick trans tran sit of light and valuable goods and for purposes of travel this road will be used it will thus become a high highway way for the world with great salt lake city as a stopping place for the journeying thousands and millions who will pas pass s from either hemisphere we desire that time to come when the world can be disabused dis abused of the many foul and malignant slanders which have been so freely circulated by seeing us as we are and thus judging of the character of those who have traduced traducer trad us so grossly besides the growth of the territories aroun around dus us which must ere many years become states and the formation and growth of new territories and states in the vast extent of country yet unbroken and undeveloped will make us the commercial centre of of rich and powerful states to which lines will radiate from this territory bearing on them the products of the earth and the result of mans toil toll and industry our geographical situation is the very bes t that could be desired for though we have no place in the territory where a large and influential seaport might grow up an immense for the commerce of nations we are by our very position the natural chosen centre to which the great wealth of the surrounding territory must yet come and through which it will pass the speed with which the pacific railroad progresses gives assurance that it will be but a comparatively short time until communication will be open by it between the two oceans there are those sufficiently sanguine to believe that by the fall of 68 we will be connected with san francisco by rail but if that result should be obtained in 69 fog the work accomplished from the breaking ground until its completion that far would be immense and there is little doubt but that unless something unexpected should arise to retard it we will be connected with both the atlantic and pacific coasts in three years from this fall the undertaking is one of the great events of the age As the laying of the atlantic cable marked a new era in in stretching 0 telegraph wires so the completion of the line which connects the two mighty oceans spanning a vast co continent nent rising over gigantic ranges of mountains and crossing seemingly impassable deserts will mark a ne new era in railroad building and andone one that will not be barren of results |
