Show 10 i the battle eattle of the SALT LAKE CITY feb olsta 6 1875 edica deseret mews news engineer t in his big letter published in the NEWS feb 3 about the narrow gauge railroad between ogden and salt lake opens a subject for discussion engineer beats around the bush and tells us what might be accomplished by laying a third rail oil on the ties of the U 0 R K R and increasing the number of turnouts and then thou tells us kow many trains can be run in a given time he evidently is in ignorance or appears to be of the necessity tor for a narrow darrow gauge road between ogden oden and salt lake no one will dispute that the U 0 K R B R can do all the business for years to come and that it will not warrant the running of trains every hour either the necessity for a narrow gauge road does not appear to him although there are many facts well known demanding that such a road be built besides the union of the tho Utah Northern and the utah western roads together with the other narrow gauge roads built and projected is a necessity in and of itself besides other reasons which we need not name the utah north ern already in idaho with a good prospect of continuing further into montana with the utah western running sou southwest south th west destined tor top to reach the southern boundary of this territory at 4 no distant day goes to show that the narrow gauge roads are the best adapted to this country there is really no necessity for a broad guage road in utah outside of taeup and the CP from the fact that the narrow gauge roads could do all tho the work for this thia country and that they can be built and operated with about half the expense 6 or f the broad gauge the engines of the narrow gauge with their v rolling stock can transport over the same grades as much paying freight and as great a number of passengers as can the locomotives of the broad gauge with their rolling stock and the narrow gauge being built with about half of the COS eos costman cost tean bean can reduce the rates and tariffs and pay the same rate of dividends on stock for instance we take a broad gauge read paying interest on a bonded debt of about per mile and paying divi dividends denas on about per mile in stock against a narrow gauge road paying interest on a bonded debt et of about per mile and dividends on stock about the same amount making the aggregate for the broad guage about per mile and for the narrow ga gauge u ge about per mile some b broad 0 a d gauge roads have a less amount than per mile some more some of the narrow gauge roads have less than some more the narrow guage roads in this part of the country must have att alt their own rolling stock as they have no other company to borrow from as yet it can be seen from the foregoing that much of the money paid out as interest on bonds to foreign capitalists ita lists can be retained at home the baet that one road can do all the business is not sufficient for the reason that competition is the ilfe life of trade and benefits a whole community while monopoly benefits a few at the expense of a community mu anity in the building of a road the accommodation of the people should be its aim for in so doing its revenue is much larger and more sure NARROW GUAGE and now comes a baston boston girl who wants wanta the new undergarment called phim prim ft w aue cause AUG it Is h the first to be put on |