The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-30

: m an should have taken. But 1t was
= proposed to run the road from the
mines toward this city, a very wise
provision in one way as it would
! enable the road to commence opera
! tions even before completed; but
unfort unately the amount taken
! was not enough to build the road
any farther than Park City and
to the Ontario mine where con
Germ which least of all needed as
sistance of this kind, was greatly
benefited. Now, as no further
means could be raised to continue
the road any farther, Park City be.
came the permanent terminus; and
our Salt Lake subscribers for stock
got nothing in dividends nor lower
rates, and are not likely TO get any~
thing in any other way, as the road
is now in the hands of the Union
Pacific Company. Now, if the
people had not forgotten too soon
the burdens they had to bear before
the railroad company gave in q
little, many more would have given
more substantial aid to the enter
prise than mere talk and fault
finding, and thus have rendered the
completion of the road to this city
possible, whereby we would have
been benefited not only by cheaper
coal, but also in the matter of some
of the finest building stone,
which would have been easily
acce ,sible; as it is now, we are at |
the mercy of the rock company, and
must pay dollar pound for it or |
60 without it, if the company should |
choose to charge that amount. Be-
sides, the hauling of ore to the
smelters here would have been a
very important item in freights
and in revenue to the road. But
though the people may have been
heart and soul in favor of the road,
there lurked in their minds sus-
picion that something might go
wrong and thus deprive them Of
their hard-earned savings, and now
that the road is in the control of the
Union Pacific Company ali Of us who
did not venture to buy stock are
glad that we had nothing to do with
it, and pride ourselves on our fore>
sight and shrewdness. No one will I
1eny that the road would have been {
4 great benefit to us all if it had been I
built to this city, hut we blame the S
people, all except ourselves, for not 6
buying more stock in the road. One t
reason why people were so timid t
about making investments was be,
cause so many schemes of thatkind | c
had fallen through before, and many t
perhaps had been directly concerned a
n them and had come out losers T
'XceDt in experience. But why are e
here so many failures in plans t
lgainst which no valid objection 1
;an be urged? 1t is want of CO. c
'peration on the part of the people,
want of that public spirit which is a
absolutely necessary to the success 7
# an enterprise of this kind. Every q
nan looks too much to his own in s
erests, and thus takes a narrow P
'iew of all things. But if men are S
o, we can only await the time when v
hey will change for the better, or U
Vhen the common danger is so s
reat that they will be compelled to e
mite in their own behalf, and do q
or themselves by force of circum- q
tances what they ought to do by c
Intelligence and feeling Of o
rotherly love for each other. Let q
be mOnOpolist understand that the
eople are power capable of think, II
1g and acting intelligently, and he G.
7ill give US little cause for CONS G.
laint. o.