Show brwn ali dily 23 SALT LAKE AND THE RAILWAYS what lias happened to tho great scheme of changes ahl b in the mind cf the average silt lake editor would go into effect BO suddenly in the event of a certain railroad consolidation 0 so much has been said whence has vanished that hiis stream of newa piper bombast that otice came pouring up from the south to atie deep infliction of those who better than the god people 0 the capital could detect its odor where is that great rail nay centre pictured tor salt lake with its splendid anion depot its machine shops and car and immense transfer offices etca where are those multiplying railway termini that were going to spring sudden as it were out of a wilderness and turn desolation into unheard of thrift and magnificence where are thal rest of the innumerable incomprehensible astonishments astonish ments that were to burst upon the startled vision of the silt lake denizens on the first dawn after the aforesaid consolidation it appearances are to be trusted we should say that there had been right recently a very pitiful col lapee n some department of the salt lake news syndicate we are not noted for digging oat j conundrums but as an offhand guess we should say the poets corner 01 that institution had suffered a serious default for the clamor if it ever bad a cause has one still there is no change for the capital in the progress of events as we are able to observe them salt lake is no nearer a great commercial center than she has been for the past twenty years except aa ogden stretches her out southward the junction is the terminus of seven different lines of in actual operation era tion and one more in construction salt lake is a way station on lie line of two parallel railroads consolidation has not these facts and no amount of consolidation can do so |