The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-22
SALT LAKE AND SAN DIEGO.

1IOiH SodIG Bake lily TO the PACING
coast has been agftated for several
years. Recently the people of San
Diego have been much exercised on
this question. There appear to be two
plans in view. One suggested by
! Thomas Taylor, who has extensive in
terests in Iron county, which is to
connect Cedar City with Los Angeles
and San Diego by the way of the AT
lantic and Pacific railroad; and the
other, a sort of cooperative movemer.-
among the railroad men of the country
to build from San Diego towards Salt
Lake City.
That a line from this city direct to
the coast without dependence upon the
present rans-continental lines would
be of public benefit, there can be little
If any doubt. The feasibility of its
construction is another thing. The ex-
tension of the Salt Lake and Los
Angeles railway westward must not
be forgotten in considering this matter.
That is in the programme, and de-
ponds largely upon the success of the
prosecute it's plans.
Thomas Taylor, formerly Bishop of
the Fourteenth ward of this city, is in
town and has expressed his views on
this matter, which will be of public
interest because of his association with
the great iron and coal deposits in Iron
county. He favors the construction of
a road from Cedar City to the Needles.
a distance of $50 miles. That is with
the understanding that either the
Union Pacific line would be extended
from Milford to Cedar, or that the BIO
Grande Western would be extended
from Salina to Cedar. Connection with
Los Angeles and San Diego Syould thus
be obtained from Salt Lake, and the
iron and coal fields would be connected
with both ends of the line.
AS to the project to interest the rail-
road operatives of the country in this
scheme he argues:
eff cooperation is all right why not
adopt it in introducing home industry
and instead of leaving it to the A. r.
U. to inaugurate, why not the whole
community join in and give the privi-
lege to Utah men of every trade and
every creed and every political color?
In prospectus issued by the A. R. U.
that association claims to be able to
control the monthly contributions OF
100000 men and get from them so cents
each per month-$50, 900 "a month. Mr..
Taylor asks how long would it take to
build railroad from San Diego to Salt
Lake that would cost at least SIS, O00,-
000?' He says further, they anltagon-
lie themselves at once with the exist
ing railroad systems and need expect
no help from Them but he proposes to
work in harmony with all the present
railroad lines, and with their aid to
connect San Diego and Los Angeles
with Salt Lake city within eighteen
months of the day that Milford is COM
nected with Cedar City or the Rio
Grande Western with the same place.
He further argues that it would be
advantageous TO Salt Lake to favor
this plan for many reasons. 1t would
Introduce THE manufacture of many
things for which we now depend upon
the east. He instances the manufac-
ture of locomotives. Sixty tons OF
crude iron, brass and steel costing
81, 900, through the application of skilled
labor in Salt Lake City, would produces
a locomotive worth $4,000 and a, hun
dred other articles in like proportion.
The proposition is to go into the
manufacture of iron and rails near
Cedar City. Recent developments of
the abundant coal there show less sui
phur in the fuel than in the first crop
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there will be successful.
He contends that the Utah Company
could give him the contract to make
their rails for Deep creek at a little
more than half the price of those
brought from the east, and ne could
very easily afford to receive half cash
and the balance in beef, mutton, grain,
flour and merchandise with which to
pay the wages of the men engaged in
the manufacture of the rails, and he
would employ his Iaborers in Utah.
thus keeping three-fourths of the pres
ent cost of those rails in our own ter
ritory
OF course if it were possible for the
railroad laborers of the country to COM
bine and build the road from San
Diego, they would bring in their own
hands and supplies, while if Salt Lake
were to join with the San Diego people
and others who are interested with
Mr. Taylor in this project Utah would
get the great benefits.
1t is that Salt Lakers may wake up
to the Importance of this subject that
we present Mr.. TayIor's views and
some of the facts of the situation. The
vast deposits Of iron and coal in Iron
County ought not to lie dormant. /
There are big fortunes to come out of |
them yet, and they are greatly de-
pendent upon the building of a railroad |
to connect them with the coast. Salt
Lake city must also receive the benefit
Of that connection and should consider |
the subject carefully. 1t would not be |
the part Of wisdom to allow all the pro- |
ceeds from that great mineral region |
TO go into the pockets of spectators |
and capitalists in other parts ,of the /
country. This is a matter of moment.
Who will take hold of it with a win?
SOUND MONEY! AND BIMETALLIsM.
The New York Post has discovered
what to it is a satisfactory definition