Show r r J UTAH lAlK OAD oab tue TUB of bf may mas 1869 viii will be memorable in in the future history of utah as the day when the first ground was broke for the construction of the utah central railroad already electricity is being used with excellent effect in bringing I 1 our settlements into instant communication with one another and it now remains for us to call to our aidi aldi aidin aldin in developing 1 ve re the resources of oun our country the great motive power of ot the age steam we have arrived at a point in our progress when itis it is imperatively 1 needed and we hope before At another iother winter shall have passed to hear heaz the snort of the locomotive as with tireless speed sneed it enters our city dragging behind h ind it its train of loaded wagons we understand it is the Intent intention ioli of the president and lind other officers of the oban pany ta push bush forward the work on the rodd roa d with energy and dispatch the grade is an easy one there are no hea hen heavy henvy vy cuts to be made on adv part of the line and aoi if it i ato ao getter probable pro bable bablo that by next september the grading will be com eom completed e t d and everything bi brready be ready for thesa the baying 3 1 n g of the rails in au our r present circum sta nees the im of this line cannot very well be over estimated it will soon become one of the most important lines in the th e united states for itis lvis it is safe to assume that the passenger and freight trammie traffic upon it will be immense aside from the business of bringing eastern and western passengers as and freight to our doors our iteal local local travel and transportation will be very considerable every year the demand for and consumption of coal are increasing even at the high prices which have ruled of late the supply has been for the demand but when the utah central shall bring it in 2 any n desired quantities and at greatly r reduced elee elce d and fixed rates to our doors it is easy to conceive how largely the consumption N v ill be increased cheap fuel fuei is one of the tle most important questions with which the people of this city have now to deal the prices of wood and coal which have prevailed for the past nine months are simply ruinous A community may from necessity pay such p prices rices for fora a single season but for them to prevail for any length of time would be a very great disadvantage and a serious check to the growth development and prosperity of the city on this account therefore if for no other we rejoice in the news received from our special Cr correspondent respondent at O oden ogden den today to day of the breaking of the ground for the utah central railroad but there are other advantages which the completion of this road will give to this city every mile of railroad which we build lessens the cost of transportation por tation which is very dear in this country by this thia means food will be cheapened the chea cheapness with which the densely populated cities of this continent and europe are ara fed fea is owing entirely to the great facilities which they have in getting their supplies through competing railroad and steamboat lines A comparison between the prices of articles of food in the markets of new york and washington will illustrate this point new lew dew york with its immense consumption of food is supplied at a rate a third less than washington this disparity can in the main be explained by the superior advantages v which the former city possesses ses ees 1 oyer over the latter in lh obtaining supplies PI ies tes from the food producing educing cing sections of the country in this city the past winter we have be been repaying paying exorbitant prices for many articles of diet which jr transportation ha hadl hadi abeen been easy and cheap we could have had bad la in abundance and at low rates i take for instance the article of butter it has sold here as high as 1 50 50 per poun and scarce at that we aremo are morally certain that the people of this city lever never before ate so much poo poor abut butter I 1 and paid so high a price for it in in the same space of time in their lives i as they have the past winter yet in n the dis tant tan t settle settie settlements meis meia of this territory they have been glad to sell it at any reasonable price I 1 this matter of ch cheap eap food is one ono of the first importance as regards the tha future 1 of our city to have a large and prosperous community here hersy herer the first requisites are cheap food and cheap fuel we cannot compete with other places in manufactures until arti artl i i cles are cheap for if the present high prices were to continue the liv ing would be too high for operative labor and many kinds binds or of manufacturing business would be driven froin alifi 1 I 1 I 1 city we ve therefore hail hall the mhd commend commence i 1 ment of the labor in building ther the utai utah central railroad with joy with a ea ourlie our oun Heart art we bid it god doot speed and wi i hope that this is but the first of a se sen 10 of efterp enterprises rs es which shall shail havenor have for thel tho object the complete completo union of our ments by bands of iron until tb works of the hands of the deni denizens zons zeus the most remote and distant parts j mir min our territory and the produce 0 of f th tha soil can by the shor shortening terl teRi f n of time ilme ai as space which railroads wa will ili iii effect k speedily interchanged |