The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-13
Speech Of Governor.


Speech OF Governor.
The governor. after d hearty welcome
to the Los Angeles chamber of com
meTce, city, county and state officials,
in which he referred to the recent visit
of Utahns to Los Angeles and expressed
the hope that the visitors would enjoy
their visit to Utah, spoke as follows:
Great as has been the work in con-
StTUCting and placing in operation the
magnificent piece of railway engineer
ing now to be popularity known as the
Salt Lake route and which connects San
PEDRO, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City.
giving a new and Spiendidly equipped
short line from the Pacific coast across
California. Nevada and Utah to the heart
of the intermOUntain region. ! say that
great as has been that work its real
ma gnittlde cannot be measured by con
templating only the span of months OcCU-
pied in the actual physical labor per
formed We must look backward, say
half a century, and forward, over the
same period Of time.
Half a century ago. what was the scene
where YOU are now carried along IN pala-
tia railway coaches at thirty to forty
miles an hOur2 A few spots of verdure, Il
few springs Of water. "A few villages and
towns, a vast expanse of rock and des-
ert- veritable death-trail from the
mountain to the sea, where none but those
possessed of unusual vigor of body and
Injured to haTdShips. might venture in
hCpe OF travelling II safely As the years
pass on the towns at eltneT enQ grew
into cities. the villages into towns. but
the Intervening space remained almost
az the valleys of the shadow of death.
in its resistance to development by the
energy Of man.
This was the condition of the route
when William A Clark of Montana gaZed
uIon the scene. having had instiiled into
his mind the benefits that would accrue
to the land through the building of
trunk line Of railway there. Others he
fore bin had inStiIIed into their minds
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siCns in papers and on paper Of the posi-
bilitieS and probabilities of such a line.
and OF the good results to flow to the
people therefrOm- but when those others
actually beheld the difficulties that were
there and the disadvantages that doomed
UP as giants in the way, their hearts
ana they were stout hearts, too-failed
them. and they turned their faces in
other directions Not so with Senator
Clark Vast as were the obstacles to
be SurmOunted. he had faith in his abil-
ity TO lead to that accomplishment. and
he moved onward. straight onward. II is
only a deserving need of praise to him
= say that ms mental action Of deter
mining to go ahead was of as great i'm
poTtance to the west in its time as had
been the actual labor of constructing the
line.
Results of cIark's Move.
Half century hence. what Of the
scene The cities are grown greater. the
towns and villages are multiplied. the
verdant fields are expanded in every di-
recton, and even within that space where
the shadow Of desOlation hung like d pan
TOT centuries the earth Is yielding its rich
mineral wealth. the busy hum of industry
is heard from sunrise to sunrise, and still
faster and Oftener than ever before the
express trains thunder along. over plain.
through mountains. in the midst of a land
completely under the dominion of a pros
porous and vigorous civilization.
compare these scenes, the past and the
future- measure them from the present
and by what has been done in similar
developments elsewhere, and yotl will be
gin to comprehend the magnitude of the
great enterprise whose successful
launching into the business world
We now celebrate. We realize
that through tbs enterprise. as
through others Of like character which
we now have and which we hold as Of too
great Importance and benefit ever to be
forgotten, the people Of the intermountaiu
brought into closer, friendlier and happier
union than before.
Monument TO Senator.
The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Lake railway now takes its place in ali
time as a temple of fame to the good
accomplishments Of Hon. William A
western states which I have the honor to
represent, I cordially thank him. and
the noble men who have stood by him
and from the hearts of the people of
Utah l bring this benediction:
We bless this great achievement.
Wrought by thy skillful hand;
Fair Utahs mountain valleys
Linked to Pacific's strand
cities Of Saints and Angels
Are sisters made. through thee:
ana those VINO once were strangers
Shall friends eternal be.