Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-15
"A WESTERN PITTSBURG In utah.
Vice President bbOn in Signed Article to the News Opnes that
Such Will Be One of the Results Following the Building OF
the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake.

attractive places in the United states
To- the average tourist upon a trans
continental route. will make that route
the most attractive for the great pas
sgnger business which has been butt
up OF late years between southern Cali
tornia and the east during certain sea-
sons of the year, a business 80 large
as 90 require for its accommodation
during the present season the running
OF daily limited passenger trains by the
roads now reaching southern Caliior-
mia. Ia addition 10 the ordinary daily
passenger trains which they have here
toiore rum
Another. and which viii probably In
the end Doe the greatest factor in the
prosperity Of the new railroad as well
as In the commercial development of
the southwest, Is the enormous traffic
certain TO bee built up by the eXploita-
lion of the mineral resources of Utah,
Nevada and California. along It's line,
10 has been a matter OF common lnoWl-
edge among mining men for many
years that the portions Of southern
Utah, southeastern Nevada and south
ern California, through which the pro-
posed road viii run, contain large de-
posts of the precious metals and of
lead, copper iron and coal. Probably
the iron and coal deposits Of southern
Utah are uneXcclled and possibly un-
equalled in the United States. In this
connection II is of interest, and may be
significant, 10 note that the iron and
coal OF Iron county, Utah Is found at
distance from the Pacific coast al
most exactly that which separates
Plusburg Pennsylvania, from the At
lantiC coast. The commerce now being
developed with the orient. and which
should be developed with the western
coast OF Mexico, Central and
South America win require vast guam
titles OF these materials both In raw
and manufactured form, and 10 Is 20
the new road and 20 the mines which
win be opened mp In the territory that
81 serves that this commerce must look
for It's supplies Of iron and coal
There would appear 20 be no reason
why the exploitation Of these great
resources should not lead 10 the estab-
lishment at some point In southern
Utah of O western pittsburg where the
materials for am enormous commerce
shall be- taken from the ground aud put
into commercial form 10 be- supplied for
an the purposes of The arts and manu-
factories To the markets OF the west-
crn world. This suggests the possibility
~ q line of trans-Pacihc steamships
being established 10 connect with the
new road q matter which has already
received some attention at the hands Of
capitalists and is likely shortly 10 as
sumo very definite shape. I'm anticipa-
ton Of the completion Of the proposed
san Pedro harhor
with the new eutornrise backed as n
ls by millions Of individual wealth. and
men who have never made q failure In
business enterprise and all these
nuwherless factors promising directly
for its future prognerltv. Il sooms safe
20 rred'ct that Its inauguration win
mark one ~ the greatest n not the
greatest. step that has hoeu taken IN
tho commercial deyo'ovno0' ~ The
southwest. r. T. GTBBON.