Show OUA OCA resources MUST BB FOSTERED the public mind is so nearly monopolized by wars antt and rumors thereof that othet other matters are doubtless doubt lees in many cases receiving less attention than they ought it is quite excusable to take the fullest interest in our troubles with spain and every development that occurs as well as to watch and be posted regarding the more or less sinister actions of some of the other nations but it by no n means follows that local and material interests areto be permitted tb take care of themselves for thle chis means that they would in inevitably evl taMy lall fall to the ground some odrae of theto to alise no i tai U to te one of the wealthiest 1 states ir in ito lt developed devel bg and undeveloped te ili the union whal it i can aft fand and is doing doln as a producer bof I 1 tue the thin a most bead needful fuik 1 to ma mattis iffe by bw no means meant s at problem 0 or r even an am choel JL quantity and reasoning arom this and guided by ne new deboto m menta ems wade are arb of daily it ts ft quite justifiable tw to say day that but a very fraction bt bf gur our stated possibilities in the direction spoken hf arke are known creven or even estimated these gifts of nature are for the sustenance the improvement and the building up of out race but unless the hard hand of labor directed by skill and backed by enterprise be applied such intended benefits might as ad well have no ex istance at all it to la not what we have but abut the use to which it to la put that counts to our profit and while all or br a considerable portion cannot be utilized or even brought forth all at once it remains a fact that much more than is done could be and this too without drawing very largely on what we al ready have in possession one pressing need that has been such for many years and is even now as decidedly in a statu quo condition as when the project was in its infancy Is the building and equipment for immediate service of a rall ralli I way to deep creek occasionally a spasmodic start is made some new ground is broken some expense which a few more venturesome than the others have to meet to Is incurred and then exit in vain it to is shown that the assured enhancement of property in this city by reason of such a road would alone equal the cost of construction and equipment in a very few years if not right away to say nothing of the immense advantage which would result to our dealers in all lines from the opening up of a new and growing market with cash to pay tor for everything Be besides aldes the properties of peep creek dugway and contiguous districts are owned chiefly by utah people many of whom reside in salt lake city with a means of transports tion such as would enable them to lay down ores here at even one fourth the present cost and delay and a very hastily and cheaply constructed railway could do as well as that or better the majority of these properties would at once become sources of wealth to their owners and through them to others while the increased field of employment of labor would figure very tar far from the last item of importance in the computation if our business men would only put their heads together and follow this by getting some of their presently unused capital into a fund for the purpose herein indicated the road could be pushed to rapid and successful completion long before the last rall rail was laid the money would begin to come back to the investors with a steadily increasing volume and eventually all would be refunded the road be in existence and all hands have an opportunity to share in the bettered state of things to follow this is worth thinking of and acting upon it is not the only thing calling for attention by any means As previously suggested utah is full of them and they relate to every department of human enterprise it does no harm but is more likely to do good to occasionally divert attention from the field of strife to the field of production I 1 for assuredly the latter is the chief backing of the former as well he as the reliance of those who are not called upon to shoulder arms |