Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-17
Salt Lake and Los Angeles.
Their Future Trade Relations.

NAV AN( Axe bAASA ASs
resources are wonderful There aro
minerals all along the line minerals
of every Kind and 800 paying quouti-
ties Money win be needed TO develop
prospects TO make mines OF them. This
money wHl De furnished Jointly by Salt
Lake ana Los Angeles
il o. no ynngIorous boast TO say thar
the average salt L1ker is FAR better
posted on mining matters than the
average citizen of Los Angeles. The
mining industry has been largely re-
wons.ble for Salt Lakes growth
Without the mines and the money they
have poured out ion the city ana state
Salt Lake could not have attained go
quickly ita commanding position in the
lntermount1in region II win be only
natural for the Los Angeles capitalists
who have money 70 invest I'm mines to
come TO salt Lake for men 20 spend
their money to the best possible add
vantage
And Los Angeles viii find that Salt
Lake Is willing to go at least half way
On this matter Salt Lake has talent
and money both and both are necessary
10 the development Of mineral re-
sources. 1t Is easy 20 foresee that In
Joint work Of this character the rela-
tonshlp OF the two cities must be
close When people are jointly interest
ed Ia q given work they become warm
friends or everlasting enemies accord
Ing To- the manner iu which their rela-
tonship works 20 the advantage Of one
or the other. There ls no reason for
believing that salt Lake and Los AM
gels win not continue to feel toward
each other the entirely friendly feeling
that has already been manifested.
This because the partnership between
Los Angeles and salt Lake win work
TO the advantage of both cities. For
great many years q direct line from
salt Lake to Los Angeles has been the
dream and the hope Of both terminal
cities. Salt Lake has worked hard 20
further the road, Los Angeles has also
worked hard Salt Lake capital Is in-
vested IN the project Los Angeles capt
tal Is also invested. IL is as much
to the interest OF one city as TO the
interest of the other Now that the
realization of the dream rs at hand,
now that the hope long deferred is to
be shortly crystollizod into a certainty
Salt Lake and Los Angeles viii re-
jolce win work together
Neither Los Angeles nor Salt Lake
wants any jug handle intercourse.
Neither wants to hold the handle Of
the prosperity jug in order that it may
Dee Withdrawn at the pleasure OF the
holder a better symbol Of the good
feeling and good fellowship would be
the loving cup. A loving cup has two
handles. always you know and q great
deal more often it has three, This so
that the cup may be passed from hand
20 hand that all may enjoy It's good
cheer Il is impossible to believe that
the Salt Lake.Los Angeles loving cup
win not contain three handles, one for
Los Angeles, one for Salt Lake and one
for the salt Lake Route"
Los Angeles and salt Lake win work
together Just as heartily after the line
is opened as they ala to secure II, Il
Is perfectly obvious fact that one
city cannot be materially prosperous
without materially increasing The pros
perty Of the other Great undertake
ings. such as the railroad and the de-
yclopmout Of the country along the
route. must inurc TO the benefit Of both,
Salt Lake and Los Angeles have some
pioneer work 10 DO together New
markets are TO be opened new cen,ers
Of industry and population establish
cd There is going TO be n battle for
these markets between Salt Lake and |
Los Angeles. a battle well worth Tight
ug. But Il viii not be such a battle |
as viii cause or leave hard feelings
one OF the most direct OF the trade |
relations between salt Lake and Los
Angeles that has been touched upon but
briefly Is the tourist travel between
the cities. The new railroad win short
en- the distance and the time from city
to city, II win do more, It win Short
en- the time between every important