The morning call., 1895-01-24

meet tomorrow to raise the necessary
amount of money"
Similar expressions of confidence and
hope for the work to be accomplished by
this committee were made by every gen.
tleman to whom the subject was men
| toned yesterday, and it was an almost
unanimous opinion that week at the out
side would see the necessary fund sub
scribed.
E. F. Preston, one of the committee ap-
pointed, is of the opinion that much good
will result from the meeting of Tuesday.
1.-THE difficulty the enterprise labored
under before" said he, twas that property
holders had no knowledge of the proceed
| ings taken by the Traffic Association, and
many men were brought face to face with
the proposition for the first time. They
| knew, of course, that soliciting was being
carried on in aid of the road, but they pos
sessed no practical knowledge of the esti-
| mated cost of construction, terminals, time
between calls, amount necessary to be SUBJ
| scribed and many other details of which
| they were anxious to hear.
''That was the first time the Traffic Asso-
citation had called upon the people to pub
| licly meet it, and as result of that meet
ing the work now goes beyond that body
and devolves in great measure upon the
owners of real estate. In fact, myself
had but little knowledge on the subject
aside from a. casual reading of reports pub
| lished from time to time in the papers, and
| had never been asked to take part in the
| work prior to this meeting.
81 had been for some years in favor of
I i ~ IL
spent much time and money in the propo-
sition to build road through to Salt
Lake. But within the past year or two
have modified my views upon the subject
because found that the overland freight
rates were not so excessive as | had mag
ined, owing to the operation of ocean COM
munication, which prevented the advanced
charges. On the other hand, soon dis
covered that the local rates were the source
of the greatest trouble, they, in fact, be-
coming almost prohibitive in their nature
so far as the efforts of merchants to reach
the interior were concerned. 1t is not only
! in this direction that the present local
schedules in force work great detriment
to the city and State. They have the
effect of preventing further immigration
and the consequent increase in population
which both the city and State would enjoy
! if other conditions prevailed.
"By opening up the proposed road the
prosperity and development of this city as
commercial center is assured, while the
valley through which the road will pene-
trate will be benefited correspondence.
because the interests of the city and valley
are identical in this matter and we must
stand or fall together"
Isaac Upham was of the opinion that
the reason the real estate men did not
respond more literally to the call for sub
scriptions on Tuesday was because thew
desired to hold off until the committee
meets to-day.
''We expect at that meeting that it will
be developed that sufficient amount of
money can be raised to go ahead" said he.
THE responsibility now rests with the
property owners, and as soon as they have
done their part we can commence the
work. The executive committee of the
Traffic Association has raised one-half of
the required amount of money; now we
ask the real estate men to raise the other
half, and we believe they will do it,