The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-11

ana ne can make your city the cenLel
of attraction for American travellers
You can build the Los Angeles railroad
| If you make an earnest effort, and you
| can get SO per cent. of the business
men OF Salt Lake to help you in the
work. You need have no apprehen
| sion as to the result. Your action will
most certainly secure the cooperation
| and assistance of one of the lines that
are now at yeur very door. Instead Of
being supplicants for favors, as you
have been in the past, you will have o
railroad or two at your feet asking you
to forget the injuries you have suffered
IN the past and to take them into part
nership with You in your work. Think
you If the Les Angeles road were started
the Union Pacific would risk the posi-
bility of having it purchased by a rival
line2 And ave you any re son to fear
that the Chicago, Burli ogton & Quincy,
the Rock Island, the Missouri Pacihc
or the Santa Fe would not watch your
operations with interest and anxiety?
You can secure the CO operation of
the people of the Pacific Coast and Ne
vads.. The Chamber OF Commerce and
citizens of Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco pledged you their support a year
ago. The citizens of Carson and Vir-
ginia City will give you their hearty
support. They are more anxious to
see this road built than you. Organize
your corporation here and then serd
reliable delegates, your president and
vice presidents to visit Nevada and
California and ere sixty days you will
find the success of the project assured.
have said that the roads which now
terminate in Colorado are pushing on
to the Pacific Coast. Do you doubt it :?
Why have these roads sent their repre-
sentatives to you during the past year !?
Following is the railroad representa-
ton at present in Salt Lake City:
The Denver. Texas & Gulf, recently COM
pleted, is represented here by w. L. Wright,
passenger and freight agent
The Rock Island by william Brown.
general agent and C. H Glenn, travelling
agent.
The Santa Fe by J. D. Kenworthy, passen-
ger and freight agent
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy By q.
] Curtis.
The Chicago & Northwestern By Robert
Marsh, freight agent and Joe Young, pas
senger age Mt.
The Chicago, Milwaukee e. st, Paul by
Alex Mitchell and Eugene Holt.
The Missouri Pacific contemplates send
ing represe NATIVE
In addition to the above We have the
Union Pacific, the Denver & Rio
Grande Western. the y tab Central, the
Utah & Nevada, the Salt Lake g. West
ern, the Salt Lake & Eastern and the
Salt Lake & Fort Douglas.
Among the many improvements OF
the year the Salt Lake 81 Eastern de-
serves special mention. This road will
soon connect S at Lake with Park City,
the richest mining camp of the west
aud enable our merchants to furnish
supplies to its citizens at rate to com
pete with Omaha merchants, what they
can't do at present.
OUR MINING AND SMELLING INDUSTRIES
are especially interested in the rail-
road question. AS seen by the report
of Mr.. Dolly published in the New
Years papers, the shipments of ore
and bullion during the year exceeded in
value t, ose OF the year before. notwith-
stand - .T@ low price of lead and the
shutting down of our smelters during
the summer. These industries should
receive the special attention of
our Chamber. The ores from the
mines are now shipped in great part to
Denver and Omaha and Kansas City,
the smelters at those points being so
favored by the railroads as to be abiel
to purchase coke at so per csls
of what it caa be delivered for
at the Salt Lake smelters. Place
our smelters on the same operating
basis as those of Pueblo, Denver and
Omaha, and the miner viii bsTe ar,
lily the winner, for without g combina-
ton between the smelters of Salt Lake
and the points mentioned, which is not
probable. the resulting competition for
the purchase of ores will send up the
price. l believe that the Chamber
should be aggressive in these matters
and use all its influence in securing fair
play for our different industries. Con-
cesslons from railroads are almost in
variably the result of pressure. They
will never take seventy-fye cents from
you if they can get dollar.
l would again recommend that the
Chamber consider the project of erect
ing
A CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING.
Put up building for $25 600 and the
success of your organization will be
thereby assured. Atpresent the Cham
Der is maintained by voluntary contri-
buttons and it is the history of every
such institution, supported by such
means, that it has eventually collapsed
Denver tried II, but as Mr.. Fletcher, the
present president of the Chamber OF
Commerce at their point, told me, it
never amounted to anything until the
organization put up its own building.
You must do something to make the
institution self-supportiDg. Your sec
rotary, or other representatives,, should
not be mendicants every month Or every
three months at the knees of each of
you. Purchase a building site and
erect building, out of tie rents Of
which you can pay your respectatIves
aud meet your other expenses. Stock
in a building company organized for
such q purpose will always have al
actual market value. It will lot be
surrendered for cancellation gratui
tously as memberships in your Cham
Der are at pre- sent, nor Will any holder
of stock fail to pay his assessment upon
the same, should an assessment ever be
levied. Without a Chamber OF Com
merce building you may maintain your
organization for a while, but it is EASY
to see what the end must be. Remem-
l.