Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-06-16
ffculties Under Which the People
of That Section are Laboring'
SOME ARE POINTED OUT.


A correspondent Of the Deserct News
writing from Logan ON the 18th Inst
SAYS
'The train rrsvlce which the coed
people VI cache valley urc now re-
coiylng Is simply cyccrnblr. The Cache
valley branch Of the oregon Short Line
begins al cache Junction and ends nt
Preston. and 90 forty odd miles long.
ono passenger aud one mixed train
make "a round trip over tho branch each
day. except when part NJ tho following
day Is consumed IN tho attempt The
passenger train. which carries the mail
received from ala points OF the com
pass. by about 5000 people. lH not
scheduled 20 leave Cache Junction.
whore Il connects with the rest of the
world. until ono o'clock y. M; ana
though I have had occasion 10 take II
and notice II almost every day since
II was put on. I have never known "
to leave on time. should this train
adhere 20 ita schedule. it would not
reach Logan until i'ii p. M; but u
pays not tho slightest attention % It's
time card and there la no way N even
guessing at the time when Il VIII reach
or leave "a given station. Yesterday,
for example II was after i've o'clock
wAon this train. with its passengers,
express matter and mail. reached Loo
gan. and u was nearly xix o'clock be-
forr business men received letters
mailed the day previous IN Salt Lake.
and nt Intervening points, some of
them but few miles distant As for
the mixed train. the Jerk water nH u
~ called it makes still less prctoncc
Of observing any time table, and iiH
crew a. shnmcfully overworkrd.
''rho 5000 people, including those of
part 81 southern Idaho. who depend
upon the Cache valley branch of the
Oregon Short Line. have % worse mnll
service than this region enjoyed In the
days Of the stage coach. They never
know when 20 Eo % the post office 60
gct their mail. nor 90 "a depot 90 take
or meet train; ana at each post Of
Zee and depot q crowd daily luitors
waiting Tor the mail or the train. iusl-
ness men ure voxod, business appoint
monts impossible 20 be kept, and bust
ness generally ~ impcded because "
this outrageous train service. People
wishing 20 go FROM one station 90 an
other 90 attend meetings, or an engage
mcnts OF any kind. are disappointed
In many ways. all because " the In
aufferuhle treatment Cache valley " rc-
coiving from the railroad.
THE marvel ~ that iOOo0 people. ne
rich as are the people ~ cache valley
and vicinity ana inhnblting an area
NJ small. and situated 20 close 10 such
railroad center az ogden, should cn-
dure such an innictl0n. Indignation.
not TO say evaporation, ~ universal
among them. and thffc h a great deal
Of talk IN The different towns In the
valley. OF mass meetings petitions. pro-
tests otc. but tho people u Cache
valley should remember that rcHent-
ment never built a railroad; that money
and muscle are required Tor such an
enterprise and that, n they win only
bunch Up" complete relief IN within
their easy reach. Thirty years aEu
When Cache valley contained not one
third rs present wealth nor population,
and when railroad building and equip
mont were FAR more expensive than
now. It's people built railroad. cDu-
Meeting their homes with the outside
world. Why should they Eroycl under
the wrong they are now enduring II
II because only those are free who de-
ferye freedom