The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-17
INTERESTS OF SALT LAKE.
Necessity lOf Organization to Push For
ward Public improvements.

Necessity Iof Organization to Push For
ward Public Improvements.
1t is no doubt the proper thing for the
citizens of Salt Lake city to organize in
come shape for the purpose of looking
after the material interest of the city. 1t
does seem as though the time had fully
come TO do something in that direction.
From the reports we hear in regard to the
movements of railroads it seems uniavor-
able 30 the interest of our city. The
Union Pacific and Central Pacific SO far
have conferred their best efforts at Ogden,
while the bulk OF their business comes
from Salt Lake. The Rio Grande,
while their main line at present
passes though our city, is moving
southerly and westerly sixty miles south
OF us, and when they start for the coast.
as they must in the near future, they will
most likely build from their Tintic ter
minus, or from some point further south.
There is a good prospect of the North
western moving westerly from its present
terminus some time soon, and Ogden viii
most likely be its first Utah point. When
it reaches there it will be an easy matter
for it to make satisfactory traffic arrange
ments with the roads now connect
ing us with that point, and push
its main line northwesterly from
Ogden to the coast; all the through
lines passing us on the north and south,
would certainly leave US badly stranded.
and the only way, in my Judgment, to
save us from these possible happenings,
is by strong and united effort on the
part of the citizens of this city to move at
once with determined purpose in their
Own interest. Every citizen feels and
knows that Salt Lake city can never be-
come the city nature has marked out for
1t without a trunk line or two
passing through it to the west.
When the Citizens association was or
ganiZed a few weeks since, / felt some
hope that they would address themselves
at once, and without delay, to this, the
most important of all the things they
could possibly do. The road from here
to Chalk creek, east of Coalville, should
be commenced without unnecessary delay
and completed before the SHOWS of an
other winter begin to fly, SO that our city
and country could be supplied with fuel
over a road built and owned by our own
people. This, when completed, would
Insure us against the grasping monopoly
in coal we have borne so patiently all
these years, and at once give us a fuel
supply for all time to come, and at rate
that would give magic impetus to
manufacturing, as well as to ali
other industries affected by q cheap
fuel supply. 1t would add largely to our
industrial population, and enable US to
keep at home and in the hands OF our own
people at least 81 200, 900 now taken from
US by foreign corporations, and not one
tenth of which ever returns to aid in sup
porting and building up our needed in
dustries. The association instead of
s'resoluting'' on coal combines, (that
nothing but an independent coal road
III eli
road shops to other points away from US,
should bend their entire efforts towards
the immediate construction of the Coal
vile road, and in the mean time extend
to the Deep Creek road all the assistance
possible. Could this be accomplished
during the year 1888, and 100
miles OF road put under construc-
ton toward Deep Greek, Salt Lake
would at once be lifted out OF
depression and heart aches, into a city of
the brightest hopes. BY a united effort
this can be done, for when go, 900 deter
mined people conclude to do thing, they
generally DO it. This road completed to
Coalville and the road under way to the
west would be as certain to attract the
first road that starts west through the
city as that the SUMS rays will fall
athWart these valleys tomorrow morning.
There is an old saying that 'sGod helps
those that help thsmselves;' /; and there is
b1OQ2nL SOn6WudG AKIN 10 LQlS
that IS equally true, and that is that
when a people have helped themselves.
that in order to continue their
prosperity they must help others.
The citizens of Salt Lake city
are under obligations. and owe debt to
the people of the territory, and that obi
cation can only be liouidated by their
contributing freely of their earnings to
push forward such public enterprises as
will open up and develop the commun-
tiles from which they have accumulated
their wealth. 1t is conceded fact that
cities cannot be built without trade in
tercourse with outside people, and all
cities are built from the margines and
profits arising from such trade relations, !
therefore there is an obligation created
between the city and its country patrons
that must be paid or the city can never
prosper as it should.
It is not enough for the people of city
to literally spend their accumulations in
building magnificent blocks and houses,
place their money at interest and thus
store away for their own.personal benefit.
To make this country grow and pros
per the environment must be constantly
extended. public improvements must be
pushed to every point from which bust
ness can be secured. This kind of public
spirit increases the city's wealth and
population in a two-fold ratio, it en-
courages, extends and opens up the bust
ness OF the country, opens new avenues
Tor employment, provides for the grow
ing population and the news of its public
spirit is borne upon the wings of the
wind to every nook and corner of the
universe, and rapidly brings the time
when, instead OF having to push forward
your own public improvements single
handed and alone, IS it were, the world
will be crowding in to help you. If you
move now you will be in time: il you
tarry until tomorrow it may be too late.
j. T. LYNCH.
SALT LAKE, Jan. 10.