Show VB considering abc atlon which salt lake contents herself through the crisis ended in the ratification of tho project the other day ia as unexpected 03 it is gratifying she accepts it as a purely formal step in furtherance of a pro gramme outlined months ago which in tact id all it ia it neither brightens nor darkens her hopes w prospects and so far as pertains to establishing her preeminence pre eminence as the railway center of the stockholders vote three times a day lor ten thousand years in favor of bach an end without ever moving a single length of track or changing the movement of a single wheel away from their original places the term consolidation as asod in the present connection lias a more important meaning than of ua realize we may also say eliat viewed from another standpoint it conveys much less than many anticipate in the former cense it expresses the determination of alio contracting tr parties to dispense with halt a dozen petty superintendents and directorates direct orates substituting one general management which having absorbed all rivalries shall conduct the various properties in a more economical and hence a more profitable manner in the other sense abo word mean that all the roads shall center at thi managers office wherever that may be or that all the depots in the system shall be done away to furnish business for one establishment at a distant point on one of the smallest of the lines the object which prompted aba consolidation will govern all the workings of the consolidation beai ness lies at the bottom of the movement and business will be its capstone no halt dozen railroads in these days of competition are likely to be fondd moving their various tracks and traffic merely to build up any particular city railroads are not conducted that way As far as towns in the abstract go one is no more a favorite than another with them if they have any preference it is for the city which furni them the most employment the best connections aal the most favorable conditions for traffic such a city needs no headquarters to insure its permanence 01 boom its prospects As long as the roads run it a ill retain their preter ence consolidation has a more welcome meaning to it than to anyone else except possibly the roads themselves and headquarters has no particular significance at all we repeat therefore that salt lakes moderate delight over the recent endorsement of the project dos her good sense great credit she knows where all the roads converge then centre and then separate and appreciates as well as we do the fallacy of any hope of their removal |