Show UAIN TALKS DAD editor times timea dear sir ono one of the comate thing chath that has so come under my notice for long ionic time past is an a article in the editorials edi of a recent aue of your valuable paper where in you gave the he public advice in regard to waiting until there is tonnage it 0 warrant the building of a railroad into this county with iut ut question that is IB the beat ilour railroad d talk I 1 have heard recently far as aa this section of the country JB bt r or d some time since the writer had a annir talk with one of the advance oz officials do of construction of the D a R G railroad and he put forth num man argument arRu menta that would put the quietus istria on an the matter of the hot air nor railroad promoter c in kinf R I 1 in and building a road to th this part of utah t very every ring and foil which has deen the cue for the pait 22 years yeara to my certain girat r what hot inducement has be there b offered any road to build into tins tho or either I 1 h er of the adjoining counties novi hold on a minute I 1 am tint t knocking a road ad by one any cir niana not when han we can set get it but mond candidly div what in thunder have we got fat or nr do we purchase that will justify a road ad coming commits right now woh we have to ship in several carload of nf flour to feed our people until harvest time but is the amount so shipped h p p M in enough to even make a ral railroad r 0 a d man notice the fact the small adall amount of merchandise shipped in and doll the live stock shipped out would not keep a railroad rai troad busy a month out of each year there are no mines yet producing and will not be for several years year judg soe ing from the activities of the mining men which means that but very little ore would be shipped hopped so it appears appear that not enough tonnage I 1 10 yot in sight to t warrant the ex Pond ture of money enough to build a railroad road lets let not worry about a road coming ng I 1 in from the west weal just now as indications point to the fact that rod road will III first come here hem from the other direction and oil porn paro wan will have aw a railroad before cedar city if ever one I 1 ia built into ilon county according to the eal railroad official mo the p D R G a wao keeps a lot of tie ties on hand in order to be prepared for a hurry up call and this material I 1 r stacked c to one of the large western rivera where it Is IB possible poe eible t to alp them to the point where hem they will III be used here la the point G 3 gould tl owns the colorado fuel iron co whose whom hold holdings on iron mountain moon t are r e v vast t he is a not going ame to tl let w some 0 other th e r road rend come me no in and make him par pit y a large amount t of bonev to ba haul 0 I 1 his hia ore or other products product to his own mills boull when he co cn on in it a short time put a road of 11 hie own to the P properties coper ties this n I 1 a reasonable aspect of the matter on ao let the would be pro moter my bay all they want to the emir c ry fu further ther if i the iron county e coal 0 I 1 is of such unbounded value for r railroad il purposes purpose it would not be lying idiom irile as it i with barely ersi enouch do dug t 11 I 1 meet local demands when the areat great coal industry of this thie part pact of the state to ia developed tt will 11 be over on the other side aide of the range of mountains where hem it can be taken out without a BO much dirt and is of much b better ater quality the greatest grate t mad coal mines in of the betl west will yet be youth south and east oi of us where it will be possible to take out our thousand of tons a day and anc where power can be obtained to ahem w irk it properly when this happee then will it blus tily a railroad to come we hear a lot of talk about road boac tn dixie to bring out the fruit canted thero A very thin argument indeed wh when III une one stopa top to consider what it me mearim one tram train load would take our nor all the he fruit that tit washington county can produce in a year this is ia not nm exaggerated consider a train of thirty to forty care cara each carrying R load ad of sixty thou thousand and pound two million four hundred thousand pounds ca can dixie supply a 1 red rail to road with three or four train loads a it day certainly not nor will she be able to for years to come while this end of the late will yet mine come into its u own we must not low lose sight abight of the fact that we must produce something that will induce a railroad to mine come in with sufficient tonnage to supply loads loada in and out lets quit building railroad railroads rail roada on paper every spring and fall and get busy to develops dev elope our moon to that point where it at will absolutely pay to have railroads railroad built in let us not fall all over ourselves to grant way give five bonuses bonu ees takes tak estock ork and famish depot grounds when we have the coads for a ml rail rol road d to handle the builders of railroad rail roada will come here hem without aidini for the earth and a large laree slice alice of the moon read it in the liters atari when there to la inducement enough in the way of tonnage for a railroad it will be built and it will not come from the west bemuse because thoss those people over marysvale Marys vale le way do things thinea when h the right time comes without aay ing much or wasting rood good white I 1 newspaper by printing stuff that tha is of an off color nature |