| Show SAN FRANCISCO 45 SALT LAKE CITY THE 0 P it R AND THE V U P K R K R IN a recent number of tho the san francisco commercial berald herald and Market be lie vico view there therb Is an article on the near future of san francisco which treats upon several points of considerable interest to the people of this city and territory the writer commences by sav saying that I 1 at the wonderful rate of sped speed with which the central and union pa elfio railroad rall Bail road companies are progressing sau san francisco will be israil in rail rall communication with new york long before the time predicted the ath of july 1869 11 he says I 1 it is affirmed that moe toe union company will reach salt lake by the I 1 st of dece december aber next and the central company hopes to arrive at that place quite as soon as its active rival estimating the distance from omaha to salt lake at about twelve hundred miles and from san francisco to salt lake at about seven hundred and lifty fifty he claims for the san francisco side a difference of a day in point of traveling time and thinks that the west need not have any fear of being able to secure the trade of utah even though that trade should be first secured by the union pacific and the eastern market omaha it is contended could never supply the people of salt laake lake with such articles as teas silks sugars coffee wines brandies flour glassware glass ware and a hundred other othen art articles ioles loles of prime necessity being itself fourteen hundred and nifty fifty miles from the eastern terminus consequently should the union company reach salt lake a month or any period of time ahead of the central company the trade of this region must now flow westward for people are not so prodigal as to prefer paying freight over more than two thousand six hundred miles for articles which can be furnished them from a distance of seven hundred and seventy miles and in proportionately less time and less expense the rest of the article treats on the facilitated communication between europe and asia and the impetus that will be given to travel and commerce between those two continents by way of amer america ica iea with the railroad completed between the atlantic and pacific this article in the herald and review with other allusions which we have noticed in the california papers to the same subject indicates an awakening interest among the merchants and business men of san francisco concerning the trade of utah so far eastern firms have manifested a much stronger desire to secure the trade of this region than western firms have done and a variety of circumstances have conduced to bring this territory clo cio closer serto berto to the east than to the west though they are actu ally wider apart not the least of these is Js the manner in which the progress of the union pacific line has been kept bea before tore bore the public As I 1 it t was pushed forward towns sprung up along its track which however short lived in most instances gave existence and su support p R ort ord to one or more newspapers whose tife life ii li 11 e was the heralding forth the 0 greatness iyre Irre atness of the place the rapid progress of the mighty work and the unparalleled paralleled url ull prosperity it would b bring to all the bocky rocky mountain region every mile almost of grading and was talked of the next terminus rf 41 was vas speculated upon gold discoveries many of them without foundation were announced wild and restless spar spirits its kept up with the track in great numbers and business men were found ready to keep pace with them and supply their wants while their daily doings were chronicled in per paragraphs and were sped over the contin continent emt edt on the wings of the press these and other things tended to keep the progress of tha the eastern end of the line constantly before the people of the rocky mountains and the approaching line invited travel and extended commerce but no sueh such adventitious aids brought and kept the progress of the central before the people work was conducted quietly however energetically through tile the Sl sierras erras and while it had made wonderful progress but little was heard of it till the line reached a more level country and approached its eastern terminus with much greater rapidity with without out intimating that california through her merchants and the central company might have adopted a policy better adapted to bring utah and california closer together the facts are as we have stated them at the present time however every exertion is being made by both companies and there is quite a struggle between them as to which will get the grading done to a terminal point farthest in this territory already tho the union company have finished a distance this side of black buttes the present terminus and unprejudiced and intelligent gentlemen who have crossed the line this week say the terminus will be at green river elver by the of october and every effort is being made to push forward the work in weber canon that should the winter be open and the weather favorable for track laying there may be no delay should tile the weather permit track laying during the winter the union company compan will without doubt have their line laid IM into this valley beform before it is over the central company have decided upon the route by the northern end of the lake they do not think ot anything else if they succeed in reaching the mouth of weber canon canlon before the tee union company P their intention is to run a branch line line to this city but those most familiar with the progress of the line do not think for a moment that they will meet the eastern line nearer than within a hundred miles of the mouth of weber at the least while some believe the union will overlap the central two hundred miles westward from that point A party of surveyors are out at the present time for the eastern company on the route by the south end of the lake examining it all the men with whom wo we have conversed who are familiar with that country lean to the opinion that it is more feasible for a line of railroad than that by the north end of the lake even if it should be a little more expense it is the route by which tho the line should run foras for oon AS president young recently said in substance had it not been for our settlements here there would have been no line of telegraph no stage line nor would the trans transcontinental continental railroad now be carrying passengers and freight from ocean to ocean with only a gap of afew a few hundred miles which will soon goon be closed up everyone every evers one familiar with the country can endorse that sentiment as being essentially true and some respect should bo paid to tho the the tho express wish of the people who have done so much to make the undertaking practicable we are still inclined to the opinion that the eastern company will see that it is to their interest to build their line south of the lake to humboldt wells should they do BO so there will be a very pretty race between that company on the south and the central company on the north of the lake A hundred miles have been let outon out on the northern route from monument point westward jo to benson farr west and it is expected that by the time it is finished the grading parties from the west will meet it the larger portion of this hundred miles is sublet sub let and the work is to be bo completed by ie the of december every week brings us nearer to san francisco and new now york |
