Show SALT LAKES DESPAIR alio silt lako hae at last learned to draw back ioto shells when any ono mentions railroad consolidation and salt lake as alio center in their hearing their wisdom is worthy ot all praise with the desperation which causes a drowning man after looking in vain for a floating hencoop to clutch mildly at a straw these exhausted and journalists have sought to squeeze hope from rumor and refresh their spirits with the glories of the mirage As each babble collapsed under touch and the mirage grew dine and at last vanished from their eight the horrors of the situation made themselves kit and tho casti nays sank back in discouragement only lie who lias drawn a blank in alie lottery or lie who has bought salt lake real estate expecting a rise knows how to with these poor in their distress dib tress drop a passing tear as they kie K ie upon companions in misery no feature ot recent salt lake papers is more tiari the explanations pla nations offered as to the of the U I 1 railway company to do its duty by salt lake it was thought that no loophole of escape had been left the press biad deftly overcome every difficulty which might seem insurmountable to dol doddering dering railroad magnates public opinion had apen sounded and nay manufactured to make smooth the way A section of lind in the alkali hats biad been designated for construction and repair shops eligible lota in the city biad been selected for depot purposes and were pointed out to tourists as reserved by hie company it it was now and then found to turn an editor out of house and home in furtherance of the scheme the public spirited liero acquiesced without a murmur all that mortal ann and immortal hope could do these people in silt lala biad done to get the earth and the railroad fullness thereof into their hungry claws and make oen a may station yet the railway company met and immediately adjourned until matters of more importance should require their attention I 1 the littau ia speechless with surprise the tribune transplants its mercurial yale graduate eliose realm heretofore has been the bolice court into the disordered department of railroad mr I 1 erro cyanide jessup iaal reporter full of resources and in alg new sphere he has call for all of them lie makes a humorous dash at alio reason of the disappoint meat lie calls it only a delay and covers himself wilh glory though ho joes not kielp the cause As the dauntless leader of a forlorn liepe we award him a wro etli of bays go gentle jessup resume thy labors amongst alie slums and cell and je darkness center at the waste not thine alchemical talented in vain attempts lo 10 judge afie inscrutable I 1 left e eliat to thine associate higher up the causeway tha shrinking and but truthful and sagacious herald young man lr bain facts liatti no terrors bis vi iscom thou hast chewel the kernel now let him thresh the chaff |