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Show A NEW BRANCH LINE FOR THE UNIONPACIFIC The visit to Los Angeles during the past week of the Governor of the state of Utah, the Mayor of Salt Lake City, and a large company of officials and business men from the neighbor State, in the interest of closer commercial, financial and transportation relations between the two commonweaJths, was the culmination culmin-ation of a series of events having these same objects in view, in which our local leaders took the initiative. The Times has told the story of the trip of the local Chamber of commerce com-merce through the Pahvant Valley, the inspection of its lands and im provements aud the report of Dr. Clements on the great agricultural possibilities and inevitable future of Utah. It has told also of the assurance given the people by Marius de Brabant Bra-bant that as an official of the Union Pacific as well as of the chamber of Commerce, he would do all in his power to have branch lines built by his company and to open up the country so that it might become a feeder to the great Los Angeles Harbor Har-bor and receive the support of the harbor city in return. The branch line to Fillmore was officially approved upon plans prepared pre-pared before the purchase of the Salt Lake road by the Union Pacific, and Marius de Brabant, just prior to departure for Omaha and the east on Friday, declared that a proposal for another branch to run from Lund on the Salt Lake line to Cedar City in the iron regionsin southwestern I'tah is also about to receive favorable favor-able action by the officials and will doubtless be shortly announced as approved. "Railroad, extension has been referred re-ferred to many times in recent months mon-ths by economists, in talking about economic conditions, as one of the necessary signs of the beginnings of a returning prosperity; and as the Pacific terminal of the Union Pacific. Paci-fic. Los Angeles can point to these extensions as the evidence that has been awaited and take the lead in this as in many other channels in putting the entire country on sound economic feet," is the way it was put by Mr. De Brabant before his departure depar-ture Los Angeles Times. |