The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-04-21
WHAT THE DEAL MEANS
future Benefits to Accrue
from Short Line sale

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Ihe pushing of the Salt laAe a Los
Angeles railway had been com,Ieted
vas received in this city yes:e, day
with the deepest salts acton saws the
Sa Lake Tribune of last MONDAY The
read will be completed in about eigb-
Teen months. There is approximately
ESQ miles yet to build, and the whole
line will have to be put in order as a
hrst-class railway, with heavy rails
lessened curved and reduced grades
The bennington cutoff is the most i'm
portant of these changes, and the
work on that is well advanced. Very
extensive Improvements are being
made at Los Angeles. Mr.. Clark the
mainstay Of the Salt Lake-Los An
geles road, having acquired control
OF the belt and the street tracks there
AT San Pedro. where this road will
touch the sea, extensive docks and
wharfs are being constructed, with
ample sea-frontage. and the very sig
nitcant announcement is made ta,t
a line of ocean steamers is to be mt
on by Mr.. Clark to compete for the
trade OF the south coast of America
and of"the Orient. This gives the en-
terprise the commanding Importance
OF a world transportation system with
the connecting line thereto for this
city an open gateway for all comers.
This railroad line is almost the only
one OF gres portance, entirely free
from competition, commanding a wide
area for its own, and connecting two
heavily people and rich communities
that remains open in this country.
1t is, therefore, assured of a hand
somely paying business from the first,
a business which can be materially
added to by the construction of spurs
into rich mineral regions where good
paying mines are already opened.
Among these. Deep Creek, Stateline,
Cherry Creek, White Pine and Tono-
pah may be named. The latter would
be afforded the easiest, cheapest for
carriage and most direct outlet by
This line.
And what of the effect upon this
city? Can any one fail to see its
transconinental uodar radl uadlu uu
transcendant Importance? 1t will
make Salt Lake the distributing point
for all the railroad business of the
mountain country. About the time
that the Los Angeles line is finished.
the Moffat road will be nearing COM
pletion. At that time, also, we have
no doubt, other main transcontinental
| lines will see that they also must
come here or be hopelessly distanced
in the struggle for through business.
| The Southern Pacific will have to
build in, and if it does not utilize its
survey via the south shore of the lake,
some other railroad company will, in
a more direct line to the northwest
voast. This city will be the mountain
metropolis, the point where all the
railroad systems will converge. Its
population will increase by leaps and
bounds; realty will be in demand, and
the business of the city will take on
majestic proportions. This will be
the jobbing center, the manufacturing
center, the ore handling and reduction
center. Here the great railway shops
will be built. here will be the head
quarters of the roads, here the homes
of the railway employees, a host In
themselves. What will all these ad-
vantages. the healing climate and
mineral springs that will make this
the great health resort of the contin-
ent; the great agricultural possibili-
ties opened up under the new irriga-
ton law that will give us thriving
farming population, and the rich
mines that will people the hills Win
a vigorous and hardy people, the out
look here is the most optimistic ever
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