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Show SAN PEDRO AND HOT AIR RAILROAD. Mr. Editor: "Hope deferred, maketh the heart sick," was said long ago. Was it not three years ago that Senator Clark of Montana came here and wanted Pioneer Square for a railroad terminus? Did he not say then that he wanted it more as an evidence of good will than for its intrinsic value? I had a lead and silver mine in Deep Creek, 200 miles west, and my friend O'Reilly had a copper mine in Washington county, 350 miles south, and did they not tell us that the road would run close, to both mines? Did not the friends of Mr. Clark assure us that his income was ?1,000,000 a month; that there was no occasion to sell bonds; that Mr. Clark would take them all; that by putting all the men possible to work at both ends of the proposed road and buying the costliest materials, there could not be enough work carried on to absorb the multi-millionaire's regular income? We, my friend O'Reilly and myself, have been waiting patiently but we have not seen the road or even a beginning of it. O'Reilly is becoming discouraged and is saying he fears Bob Sloan was right when he called it "the great Hot Air," and I do not feel very well myself, but I have one comfort, the road is as near my mine as it is O'Reilly's. Can you give us any light on the matter, Mr. Editor? Yours Anxiously, "Miner." We are sorry we cannot give the information desired de-sired in the foregoing. We suggest to "Miner" that he write to Mr. Whittemore, the attorney of the road, for information. He will And Mr. Whittemore Whitte-more most courteous, and he will get specific news touching the progress of the road or the reasons why it is not progress, or when it will probably begin to progress. The time is about up when we were promised we could enter a sleeper and, without a jolt, be landed among the orange groves of Sour' ern California next day. From present appearances the preliminaries are not yet all fixed, but they are progressing. If we were to make a guess we should say that inasmuch as there will be a Senatorial election in the regular business of the Utah Legislature early in January, 1905, the construction of the road, from this end ought to begin about the first of May, 1904, or say long enough prior to election to permit the graders to vote the Legislative ticket that year. Our correspondent corre-spondent should not become discouraged. Greatx enterprises need much preliminary deliberation in order that no mistalces later will have to be paid for. Then tho testimony Is direct that work has begun on the ocean terminus, that it has been pushed out toward Mr. Clark's sugar farm and factory, some thirty miles, and that one train of most elegant cars has been purchased. That surely sure-ly must be accepted as an evidence of good faith. The only really discouraging feature is the natural problem which is suggested by the rule of three J . H which stated in figures is as follows: m ' ' BB "As thirty miles is to 850 miles so Is three years 8 - " H to the answer" and as we figure the matter out it J j H means tho. road will be finished in eighty-five It "' ''I years, which is a good while for some of us to Im , H wait before visiting the orange groves, while no I I J iH man can tell what the price of either lead, silver i 7 , ' S or copper will bo then. However, it is possible ' ' H that a successful electrical engine will be in- f- H vented before that time that will not mind heavy I J , , " lH grades, and then, Sam Gllson declares, that his U , "JH flying machine will be in successful operation f i ' :H probably next spring, hence we tell our corre- j, ' , ' " H spondent not to permit the deferring a little of f ' .' ' .' H hope to make his heart sick. if ? , jH |