The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-27
UTAH PRODUCTS AND RAILR0AH
POLICIES.

HOk ING uEBb IiEl6 III us DiAeOI
ofthe Union Pacific railroad. Utal
-four finds a market any dlstanc
east. Il is admitted thai 8 fue
quality Of -four than the Utah i
nowhere made. This admission ina
plies mat Utah produces q superio
quality Of wheat, as good wheat il
indispensable TO excellent four
The fact that it is possible to ex
port iloDr as fer east IS Nebraska
is important in two ways: 1t shows
a complete change in the policy
pursued by that mammoth corp IRA
tion-the Union Pacife-undet the
new management; and admits o.
possibilities that have been only
dreamed of fer years. The
course pursued by this rail
road in the last ten years has BEEN
such as not only to produce feeling
of diatrust regarding it among the
people OF Utah, and make question:
able the sincerity of those claiming
to be Of the people yet wh2se PEI
cuniary interests were with the
railroad company-buE it has ab-
solutely engendered sentiment of
hatred, in the welEfounded senti.
ment Of the community that every
extortion that could be forced from
the people hal been put upon them;
that the spirit Of community enter
prise looking to cutting off the im-
pOrtations and establishment of in
ternal industries would find Ger.
tain and a powerful opposition from
the colossal monoE oily. The hauling
Of iron for the Utah Eastern
railroad, the refusal to allow
Utah people to use Utah
coal, So as to enforce the Wyoming
article into the market, and the
steady efforts made to crush the
life out OF internal Industries by
pitting old markets aad old firms
against the young, to accomplish
which geographical distintions were
almost wholly oblIterated-sre some
Of numerous instances that could
be cited. rhe exofbItant price
recently demanded for coal in Cache
Valley. and the endeavor to secure
for Nebraska the market Of the
north, in which Cache Valley dis
posed of Ter surplus products, by
hauling -four and the like 1900
miles for % cents per 100 pounds,
are cases in point calculated to COW
beyond the possibility of questions
ing that the enmity felt towards
the U. p. is the result OF
U. P. expressions and extor-
tions. The high tariff generally
has been a source Of com plaint, but
not nearly so much SO as the fact
that, while outside Countries could
easily get into Utah, it was impos-
sible for Utah to get out; go that,
Notwithstanding the remarkable
vitality displayed in the Territory,
it was impossible that it should for
ever bear the strain of paying out
more than it brought in and still
continue 60 thrive. Dull times
save in periods of unusual monetary
activity, such as the building Of
railroads, aud the unusual influx of
mining capital, were the inevits BILE
consequence, and are realized in the
existing conditions of today. The
efforts Of the most powerful monop-
oily in the world, however, must
prove abortive when tie object is to
keep in vassalage section
30 wonderfully blessed with
variety and abundance of
economic resources such as are to be
found in Utah. The Ike is IN
known; powerful as may be railroad
companies, that power is not great
enough to cope with the strength
that grows out of natural resources
easy of access and faYorably siiu-
ated. 1t is therefore an absolute
impossibility to keep Utah from oc
cupying s position, in the impor-
tance OF her agricultural, manafsc-
turing and mining interests, laecond
TO none in the world, the area con.
eidered.. Railroad efforts may pre-
yentIthe speedy arrival stsuca a de.
enable contamination; bat the delay
must be only temporary. Hencs it
is, that IN this opposition ths rail-
road has been a loser byits own pol
icy as the development of the
resources of Utah, which it might,
a minimum sense, decrease the