The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-02
BARRETT ON SALT LAKE.

II is a satisfaction 10 the people OF
Salt Lake City to see the commerciai
and strategic Importance of tins CITY
50 fully recognized and impressed upon
us by an authority 80 eminent as John
Barrett. Our special dispatch from
Portland Yesterday morning represent
ed Mr.. Barrett AS sounding call TO this
city 10 realize its great advantages
from the completion OF the Panama
canal. That work will put Salt Lake CIty
not only within about seven hundred
miles of the coast, but with good coast
connections on the great commercial
transportation routes OF the worla'
With the completion of the Panama
canal Salt Lake City will have all the
advantage Of railroad haul from any
part of the world. OF 2 distance not
greater than that named That IS, our
railroad transportation will be. on all
heavy articles that do not require
urgency in transportation, only about
one.third Of what it is now in distance,
computing from the Atlantic coast.
Mr. Barrett points out, as The Trlb-
une has pointed out many times, the
unique strategic position Of Salt Lake
City compared TO the large region sur
rounding it. There is no place east
ward this side of Denver for the build
ing of great city, a rival to Salt
Lake There is no place on the north;
there is nothing TO the south, there is
nothing on the west possible this SIDE
OF San Francisco. Salt Lake City IS
thus in the center of an immense area
of wonderful richness in mines, In argl-
culture, in stock raising. and in manu-
featuring, with all the materials and ad-
vantages at hand for great work IN
every line.
An air line railroad from this city
to the coast would give us the advan-
tages of an immediate ocean port, mod
flied by the lessened railroad freight
rates. II ths city. could be authorized
TO construct railroad from here di-
rect to the coast through the great MN
ing regions Of Nevada and through
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have the most direct route to the sea,
and would be in a commanding situa'
tion from the commercial and trans
portation standpoints.
Mr.. Barrett does well to emphasize
Salt Lakes opportunities at this time.
The city should bestir itself to ascer-
tain the best possible ways to take ad-
vantage of the vast and immediate I'M.
pending changes which the opening or
the Panama canal will make in trans
portation and in general commercial re-
relations.
Mr.. Barrett is eminently qualified
TO discuss matters of this kind. He has
made transportation. trade and dlpio'
macy his life business, He has served
in many public capacities, has made
special diplomatic and commercial IN
vestigations in Japan, Siam, Korea, 81
IBERIA. South and Central America, and
India He has had specially close re-
lations with the South American Re
publics for ten years. and is now, and
has been for five years. Director OF the
| International Bureau of the American
Republics He was the Commissioner
General of Foreign Affairs in the ST
Louis Exposition in l902-S, this giving
him wide opportunities to learn OF
trade. manufactures, and commerce. We
consider the challenge of Mr.. Barrett tc
salt Lake to get in line with the prog
ress in which this city can take sucf
a prominent part, to be trumpet cal
which should be responded to witt
eagerness and substantial results by
Salt Lake City.