Show WHY IMF IMPORT ORT RAILS about tons ot of rails v ill bo be nee emary to lay one mile of single track standard guage road it will ill t therefore require about 03 tons for miles of 0 road or including sidetracks 20 I 1 tons ton these raila rails will coat cost in st louie louis t 10 per ton or for the tona tons it ft ill cost to bring them hero about per car of ten tone tons or A for 2000 cars adding original coet cost to of freight the bum sum is 1 tills this ie is exclusive of fish plates and bolts it is therefore seen eliat a great sum su in ft ill bo be paid out in thia this way by the new now road west scarce scarcely lyone one doll dollar arof of which chAill will remain in tills this country could there be a more fit occasion to open our extensive iron deposits in the trenouth south establish rolling mills in salt lake and they could not only secure the contract for the rails in qa question estion but for the iron necessary to reach the coast such mills might successfully compete for supplying all roads built and projected through this region and to insure insure their success turn their attention in other directions such as a stove maki making in 1 foundry and machi machine nework work etc 1 we e have mountains of iron and coal com and great numbers of skilled iron workers rolling tolling I mills and tho the los angeles road should go hand in hand 11 adt sot ake lake herald herold ogden has better natural advantages for rolling mill mills than thin any other city in the west iron and coal exist in tills this vicinity in such abundance that they could supply all the furnaces of earth for a generation one company here owns a mountain of iron in sight of town and an inexhaustible mine of coal uncovered within sixteen miles of ogden depot A prominent shareholder of that company said the other day clay if any man firm or corporation will come here and engaged engage permanently in the manufacture of iron I 1 will donate my block to the enterprise I 1 will show the projectors where a grand mil laito can bo be secured tor for a song and where a waterpower water power can bo be found of sufficient magnitude to turn all the 1 4 machinery between hero here and the A atlantic t ocean I 1 with the salt lake herald wo R 0 ask why import rails or OF the american colony in paris are talking earnestly of erecting there colossal statues of washington and antl lafayette IV ii le the admirers of these two heroes are a engaged in their project the new york sun suggests that it would be well m ell to find out just m what hat sort or looking individuals washington and lafayette were they are represented together in several pictures of daubs and nd in every one of them washington is a bl bis six looter footer and lafayette an ordinary sized man and most of tile pen pictures of history lii story present them in the tile same manner comparatively in one of dumas romances which he lie called a work of history lafayette is described as a delicate little chap with flight limbs A short time before he be died thurlow weed in an interview which wa was pu published blis lied in one of the new york dailies spoke of the french hero m whom hom he lie knew know as follows lafayette was a very largo large man inan one of the largest men I 1 ever saw lie ile was considerably taller than myself and I 1 am over six feet how big was alexander pa it ie alie th 0 question which may well agitate the statue builders AT LAST chicago is kicking about abou t railway discriminations the tile tribune of that city says owing to tile unjust discrimination of the rail railways ways over hogs logo have been diverted i from to in chicago since sil ace march 1 omaha lias has taken of the animals and kansas city away from ch chicago ica during the last six air months this tills is due to the tact fact that the railways in combination have charged cli arged W per cent more for forel shipping upping the jive hog from omaha to chicago than for ahe dressed animal the next discrimination is in favor of boston and omaha sm its against chicago tile difference between the price of a bog hog in chicago and om omaha a ila is 10 cents per pounds in favor of tho the latter city yet with this difference the boston bonton packers purchase the tile live hogs bogs in omalia omaha and ship them around chicago to boston for less money than they can purchase them hero here and take them to boston the difference is not in the price of lie the hog but in he the discriminating rates A FARMER lay in wait in in lie his vineyard tor for grape thieves hearing a rustling he fired hia his shotgun eho teun and kill ednot two or three human beings as he lie expected but his hi own very valuable calf let thie this incident offset one case cam of a hunters mistaking his friend fobs for ft deer As ax man engaged in the eale of rubber overshoes remarks that 11 only two qualities aro are now manufactured tho bad and tho the d d bad and only tile latter seem to reach the retail market A deems himself in b bad ad luck when death snatches ills mother in law and in worse luck when it dont snatch her two editions of 0 helen CIS babice babies ha lw been issued |