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Show SALT LAKE'S ISOLATION.' The Salt Lake papers keep up their attacks on Ogden 's railroad Interests. The only explanation, for this, othr than the natural pcr-vcrseness pcr-vcrseness of the papers, is that Salt Lake, in its present railroad isolation, is eager to find some other community equally as distressed dis-tressed and miserable. With the San Pedro or, rather, Salt Lake route washed out and perhaps beyond repair within two years, and with the Western Pacific so extensively damaged as to require rebuilding or reballast-ing reballast-ing of half the mileage, and with 100 miles of the road south of the lake unfit for service because of the bottomless quagmires and dissolving dis-solving salt beds on which the tics rest; with these adversities staring- them in the face and threatening to pin prick an inflated boom, the Salt Lake papers are naturally disposed to play the part of Misery, who likes company. While railroads entering Salt Lake have met with disaster, leaving leav-ing the city marooned, the roads which have Ogden as a terminal, are continuing to do business and are building for bigger traffic. The Union Pacific is surveying for a double track out of this city, which will add to the carrying capacity of the road arc! make impossible a congestion of traffic even in the busiest season of the year. West of here, the Southern Pacific is planning the double-tracking double-tracking of the Ogden-Lucin cut-off, that wonderful bridge across the Great Salt Lake, which cost $2,600,000, but which paid for itself within the first two years after completion. The figures of cost we have from a former official of the Southern Pacific who was connected connect-ed with the building of the cut-off. An engineer on the cut-off w. iocly -Dformed us to the naturo of the attacks being mads on tho cut-off by our good friends in Salt Lake, and he said: "It would be a sad commentary on railroad construction, railroad rail-road engineering and railroad financial responsibility, if the little company in possession of Saltair could build out in the lake a pavilion capable of resisting the splash of the waves and the wlmz of the wind, while the Harriman people acknowledged defeat in a similar task. In rhetoric you are allowed to prove the negative of a proposition propo-sition by reducing the affirmative to an absurdity, and I believe that the absurdity of the contention of the Salt Lake papers has been" more than, demonstrated. The cut-off is a more durable structure and less liable to destruction than those skyscrapers which touch the top of Salt Lake 'a world and, in part, circumscribe the limits of the vision of those provincials who believe Salt Lake's horizon includes all creation." |