Show SANPETE AND THE sanpete has always been a mare more or less prosperous county tor for tho the reasons that most of its people are anius erious rugal and horns home producers but it is now a long way in advance ot of what it has his ever ibsen been before one drawback is the need of better and more rapid transportation this latter has been promised for lo 10 lot I 1 these many years and though seemingly nearer of now than hitherto is still an event of the future it if at all it does saam seem as though the sanpete valley railroad which connects at nephi with the morning union pacific from Salt Lake Like had determined to close a career of dreary mismanagement and lack of enterprise enter prisa with actual hari kari karl or else it would not hare have dilly dallied along as it bai has while talk of another line became more and more frequent r and has at last materialized in tho the actual appearance of the denver and rio grande graude western in to the northern end of the county it the latter should push ahead to manti this year it would virtually close the other concerns career and few thero there be who would mourn such a result terminating its line in a marsh marob the road has stolidly and indolently atly refuse 1 to move on or turn tarn to either eide side now and then as it to held off opposition a show of crawling out of its has been made and the announcement no that its would wake the echoes in the streets of ot the county beat seat babore snow flies has been made so 80 often that it at last attracts no attention through mere vapidity if nothing else and now the prospect of being confined to what little local business busine aa thero there la Is to be picked up between moroni and nepha looms up darkly before it there Ther els la perhaps one last laet final chance for it to extend its lease of prosperous life it if not become a great money maker and that is to cut right ahead and make its way to mantl manti by forced marches ma thus thu 11 steal ine ing a march on its plucky and 9 gigantic gantle rival the latter it is understood hadnot has not yet perfected arrangements I 1 for the extension ot of its line beyond I 1 jg I 1 I 1 V ml mt pleasant Plea ant which is twenty lime miles duo due north of the chief oba active point about ho the samo same distance as SI which Is north and west this baing being the passenger terminus of the sanpete road tho the people of tha the southern part of tho the valley would liot care greatly what road it was that pave gave them direct with the outside world so long ai as it dealt fairly and aad cave gave them I 1 reasonably rapid communication both mantl manti and ephriam are business centers of considerable and growing importance they are surrounded by flocks and herds by fertile fields and mines of wealth only awaiting development and they feel the need of a railroad so keenly that even tha the ona one that they consider has his treated them eo co shabbily would be received with ith open arms if it camo came right along without any more fuss or further postponements postpone ments this is not brou prou probable able and all the signs now point to southern finding its chief avenue aven no of traffic describing an almost direct line of railway from manti north to the trunk line of the thed D E R G IV a somo omesime time next year hope deferred mabeth the heart sick yet it is better to have it next year than to bo be it for several years thereafter and have to I 1 cat oat the air promise crammed as eta they have tor for BO so many bears rears pas past t |