The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-15
THE ROAD. A SURE GO.
The Discussion on the Salt
Lake & Los Angeles.
TO CANVASS THE TOWN AT ONCE
Sundays Trip Over the s. L. & F. D
KOad-The Deseret Railway
Company.

| Company.
! The appointment of committee of
nine by the Chamber of Commerce to
take up the matter of building arail-
road from this city to Los Angeles has
inspired considerable confidence in the
friends of the scheme and present indi-
cations are that the new road will be
pushed through to Deep Creek as soon
as it is possible to make the necessary
preliminary preparations.
The members of the committee hav
heard a great deal of talk upon the sub
ject since their appointment and so
many business men have come to
them with words of encouragement tn
when they met last night at the
Chamber of Commerce all were
enthusiastic and there was a
unanimous feeling that the time
had come to put the enterprise
through with all possible haste 1t did
one good to see the earnest expression
on the face OF every member of that
committee and to hear their enthusiast
| tic talk made it an asy matter to mag
Inc ones self riding across the Great
America Desert, through Nevada
mineral mountains and into the orange
groves of Southern California, in a
-Vestibuled train on the Salt
Lake 4 Los Angeles road.
THE MEETING
was called to order at the appointed
hour, and Mr.. Lawrence was called to
the chair, Mr.. Auerbach being absent
in the east. There were present of the
committee Henry w. Lawrence, Hyrum
Groe sbeck, j G. Conklin, w. P. Noble,
w. III. Sells and Arthur L. Thomas,
On motion of Mr.. Sells, Mr.. Thomas
was elected secretary.
Mr. COnklin offered the following
RESOLUTION:
Whereas, The Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce has evinced deep interest in
the construction of a railroad from Salt
Lake City to Southern California, and has
pledged its cooperation and assistance in
the construction of said road, as appears
from the resolutions recently passed by that
body and forwarded to our Cham ber and
Whereas, The San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce has also pledged its support to
said enterprise, and that from the senti-
ments expressed both by the people of Ne
vada and California, we have reason to ex- |
peel not only promises, but material and |
substantial aid and cooperation IN the |
building of line of railroad to the Pacific |
Slope.
ResOlred. Tha! a subcommittee of three |
be appointed by the chairman of this meet |
ing 10 wait upon the directors of the Cham |
Der OF Commerce at their next meeting, |
Wedn esday, January 16, to recommend the |
appointment OF a sufficient number of
representatives of the Chamber of Com
merce and the community to visit Southern |
California in the interest of said road that |
said representatives be instructed to pro-
ceed Immediately to San Francisco and the |
cities OF Southern California and of Nevada, |
for the purpose of aScertaiRing the nature |
and extent of the cooperation pro missed |
and that this committee recommend that |
the actual expenses of said representa- |
tives for the purpose of said visit be paid |
out of the treasury of the Chamber.
This resolution was unanimously |
adopted. and Messrs. Sells, Noble and |
Groesbeck were appointed as the COM
mittee provide for III the same.
To CANVASS THE TOWN.
Then great deal of informal talk |
was INDUCED in aud it was decided to |
make canvass of this city for sub
soriptions to the stock of the road. The !
following gentlemen were appointed a |
committee for this purpose and will be-
gin their labors this morning: Messrs. |
Conklin, sGroesbeck, Noble, Thomas, |
Sells and B. G Raybould.
FROM Los ANGELES.
During the evening the following
communication from the Los Angeles
Chamber of CommeIcs to the Salt L AXE
Chamber was read: e.Ssa
Whereas, The Chamber of Commerce Of
Salt Lake City has taken measures TO arouse
lively local interest in Utah, in favor of the
speedy construction of rallrJad, which |
shall unite Los Angeles aud Southern Cali
fOrnia with Salt Lake c .ty, and,
VhereGs, Perhaps without dissenting
voice, the people of this community recog-
niZe the fact that the construction of such a |
road will be of incalculable advantage to |
southern California as well as to the Terri |
tory of Utah, and
Whereas, During the new awakening of |
local vigor and enterprise which this Sec
ton is beginning to fee, this great vital |
artery for the current of our prosperity
should be one of the first, if not the very
first. to receive our attention. and
Whereas, By cooperative effort at each |
end of that artery strong and earnest, the |
OBJ tacles between are more likely to give
way and the end sought more certain and |
speedily to be carried out; therefore,
Be it Resolved, That the Los Angeles |
C aamber of Commerce, through its eXecu-
tive committee, pledges itself to enter |
heartily into the effort and devote every
means in it's power to arouse the enthusi- |
ast.c support of the people of Southern |
California for the enterprise and to devise |
such measures as S nail most speedily bring |
about its successful completion
The secretary of the Chamber is hereby |
instructed to transmit copy of the resolu- !
ton to the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, |
and request that body to acknowledge the |
receipt thereof and send to this Chamber |
any information or suggestions that N ay |
enable us the m ore efficiently to co-opera4e |
with IL in the common cause.
The committee then adjourned to |
meet at p. m. to-day.
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