The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-11
IT WAS A TUSSLE.
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of the Territory show gain of 20 pei
cent. over last year. Nearly all mer-
chants report decided increase in
their business over the year before.
Building operations were so lively that
mechanics and laborers had more work
than they could fairly attend to-"
From the facts submitted from the
comparisons made with previous wears
the growth of Salt Lake during 1888,
both in business and population ex-
That this result has been achieved
through the efforts of the Chamber is
undeniable for it is impossible to &C
count for it on any other hypothesis.
There were fewer reasons for the
growth of Salt Lake in business and
population during 1888 than for several
years past. It would be much easier to
have found cause for a decrease.
Nor is the result; of our work benefit
and advantage to Salt Lake City alone,
from the whole Territory including
Ogden especially has profited by our
work and the good example we have
set, and l only hope that in time she
hdy give US q iCSSOA III Luc Qlopldy VI
energy and public spirit. AS l said In
my last report there is room in the
west for several cities as large as the
largest in the east. remember on the
occasion of q recent visit to Denver re-
marking to the president OF the Cham
Der of Commerce that l could not
understand the motive for the invest
ment of Denver capital in Pueblo.
"In building up Pueblo" was the
reply I'VE are building up Denver.
In building mp Colorado we are
building up Denver, for the State is
tributary to the metropolis" That is
the proper spirit to display, for as all
roads led to Rome so will all roads lead
to Salt Lake and center there. By q
combiC alton of circumstances several
years ago, transcontinental railroad
was built through Ogden. Since the
date of its construction to the present
time it has never been out of debt. 1t
was built as roads are built in the
dominion of the Gear without regard to
a careful study of passenger or freight
traffic which influence The railroad
builders of the present. There is not
much likelihood of capital being invested
in parelelling that road Still there is
no denying the fact that half
dozen lines are pushing on to the same
terminus, the Pacific Slope. The Mis-
souri, Pacific, the c., B. q @. the Rock
Island, the D. & r. g., the Santa Fe,
the Colorado Midland, the Texas &
Fort Worth, the Northwestern and the
D. & R. 6. Western are all in the fight
to-day for the enormous traffic sup
piled by the western coast. Five of
these have already reached the eastern
slope of the Rocky Mountains. while
the D. & r. G. ana Colorado Midland
have already solved the problem of
crossing the Continental divide. How
are these roads to reach the Pacific
Coast? Is it by entering into Compel
ton with road which, notwithstand-
ing the monopoly it has had for years
on western traffic has never paid
The question answers itself. But there
are more cogent reasons for believing
that Salt Lake will be the objective
point of all these roads in their journey
to the Coast. Passenger traffic is one
of the great considerations that guide
"a lroad builders. For twenty years
travellers to and from the Pacific Slope
have never failed to visit Salt Lake.
They have stopped at Ogden, but
stopped to come to Salt Lake. Southern
California is being built up more rapid
ly than the north. During the past ten
years Southern California has been the
goal of all western travel The railroad
that reaches it by building south OF the
Great Salt Lake through Salt Lake City
will save forty hours of travel, and
will find all thu business it can
take of in Nevada. Are these
considerations likely to be ignored &?
Why should the railroads mentioned
which are now south and east of Us go
north to reach the west? The wealth OF
Utah, with the exception of Park City
mines, which pay tribute to Salt Lake
as the river to the ocean, lies south of
Salt Lake. Our fertile valleys stretch
south 200 and l ni.ht say
3Uu mi es. Que mountains of iron are
south, but soma are within thirty
miles of US. Our inexhaustible coal
deposits, our sulphur, our gilsonite, our
mines, our ozokerite and the Thousand
and one deposits which serve AS
foundations for ufacturing indus
tries. Why should the railroads 90
north? They usually 90 where the soil
is productive and where raw ma
terials are found for manufactures.
But, gentlemen. there are temptations
for railroads to leave the straight road,
the road that points prospectively to
the highest reward, as well as for indi-
viduals. That they may not be exposed
to such temptation you should build or
start to build road
FROM SALT LAKE TO LOS ANGELES
yourselves. There is an opportunity
for our Chamber in the building of
such road to reflect eternal honor and
credit upon itself. It is not such q
colossal scheme. There is nothing too
colossal for earnest, honest energetic
men to accomplish. An honest. intel
ligent worker always has friends and
helpers. A brave. plucky community
will always have plenty of ad-.
miners. It is in such communities
that men lii to congregate. You will
find friends and helpers when your
work begins to arouse admiration. Salt
Lake has already won some honors;
che has been pointed to as an example
worthy of imitation by communities
considered more intelligent and pro-
gresslve. Only build this Los Angeles
railroad. Start and build it in an
earnest, enthusiastic manner, aud you
will have tens of thousands of citizens
rushing to your assistance before it is
completed. 1t will double the popule-
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