The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-09
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The Wonders Of the Telephone
Some Suggestions Con-
corning Utah.
Garfsld's Policy Pointed Out.
OMAHA, March 5th. 1881.

EdJt0TS Herald:
1t has been some time since ]
wrote you. The principal reason
which 1 can assign for the neglect
is that really have not been able to
get about much in consequence II
the cold weather, icy streets and
snow drifts, and therefore have
been unable to CLEAN knowledge OF
events of sufficient Importance to
ask room in your columns for my
scribblings, and because, further,
perceive the paper is pretty well
filled with local and other matters OF
greater interest to your readers than
my letters would be.
l see you are likely soon to have
the telephone in your city, and am
glad to know that your people have
become awake to its importance, for
it is truly a convenience to busine S.
men, as l have had ample OppOr-
tunitieS to observe while here.
AS an experiment, held CONVEX
satiOn, not long since, with an old
friend of tWenty-siX years standing,
Gen. GTenvil NJ. Dodge, of Council
Bluffs, but whose Office as president
of the American Railway Improve
ment Company, is at so Broadway,
New York City, At the time of
this conversation | was at the resi-
dence of another old friend, Hon. 5.
E. Rogers, vice-president of the
State Bank of Nebraska, in this city,
and Gen. Dodge was at his own re-
Sidence in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a
distance Of not less than six miles.
1t seemed a little extraordinary that
[, after speaking in conversational
tone of voice, addressed myself to a.
hole in the wall, holding to my auri-
cular appendage a trumpet with wire
attached, almost instantaneously re-
ceived arepIy in a well-knOwn voice,
which l had not heard for six or
seven years. And still as remark
able is the fact that the general,
with whom | have held no inter
course for the above named time,
md having in the interim been an
active participant of public affairs,
md amid the throngs of New York,
should recognize my voice, as
ne admitted, although going
% him in almost whisper.
hope Salt Lake will not only
adopt the telephone, but also the
electric light What those who |
Iwell in the outside wards require, |
md for which alone they should be |
to pay, is street light |
which will enable them to walk the
streets at night. and incidentally
lifOrd protection against robbers
md garroters.
| presume your readers are aware
If the alleged intention of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company to make |
he starting point of the Oregon
Jranch of its road Granger Station,
instead of Ogden, rs has heretofore
)een believed would be the case.
Now, while l do not pretend to
peak from authority, l may say
hat the belief is general here that
uch will be the result.
That that branch will be COM
nenced the present year is also
bout reduced to a certainty, and l
hink, although without authority,
hat ere long the Salmon River and
Wood River mines will be favored !,
With railroad facilities; believing,
S ! do. that the branch will cross
H. Utah and Northern road some
where in the Snake River Valley,
nd if such shall prove to be the
,Olicy of the company, why could /
hey not commence simultaneously
t Snake River and at Granger?
In any event ! can readily imagine
hat the effect of building this
ranch may injuriOusly affect, not
My Ogden, but Salt Lake also; and
Ii this connection it occurs to me to
emark that. if the solid men of J
Jtah, instead of worrying over the
bone of contention,
would unite the abilities undOUbt-
dly possessed by both parties, and
'oOl their cash in the erection of
melting and refining works, and do
Their acts calculated to build up the
Material interests of the territory,
he results would prove of vast ben
fit in more ways than one.
| have lived a good while, and
hough not having accomplished
much myself, have observed that
iscOrd, dissensions and divisions
eldOm build up or maintain COM
in prosperity.
Nebraska became an organized |
erritOry and was first settled about |
even years later than Utah. Ne
raSka is n state now with about |
10000 inhabitants, while Utah is a
erritory of 100000.
1t may be true that other causes
ave tended to retard the progress
Utah than diScord, but it
5 reasonable to suppose that had
be people of Nebraska been
n constant strife for the last twenty +
ears, this prosperous state would
.Ow be a poor territory. But | am |
Ot now debating to the people of |
Itah what they ought to do, only
Ointing out what might be under
hange of programme.
Hoping that they, and you also,
7ill excuse the liberty taken,
| am, as usual, H. d. J.
P.S. = And now Garfield has
poken, and we can guess at the pro-
osed policy. Let me suggest what, |
n part, it will be:
This is a nation with big a."
This nation must educate theI
egrO."
THE national banks must issue
IL the paper money"
THE nation must be supreme"
1.-The nation must fund its debt to
nit the aforesaid banks-Or pay it
n gold or silver"
I'VE thank thee, Garfield, for what
consolation we find in the silver
.lause.)
The nation must deal with the
twin relic"
Now, therefore, look out for the
'eturn of the beautiful" Governor
with the tools to erect your scaffOld
that is, if words mean anything.