Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-07
,he only Way He Can Get out OF 10 l.
TO Improve Ills HoAds.

,he only Way He Can Get out OF 10 q.
TO Improve Ills Hond..
lsaw u stglomcn; the other day that
onequartcr OF the farmers expense IN
raising his produce aud putting u on
sale consisted Of the cost OF getting II
from his farm 20 the market. prrhnEg
this estimate IS too large. perhaps Il Is
too small. Every ono will acknowledge,
anyway, that this outlay cuts q pretty
figure on the balance sheets OF Amcrl-
can ogriculturists. Some day the whole
country will wake up 60 tho fact that
this figure may b. aud must be material
ly reduced. A largo share OF this money
is dropped In tho mud holes which the
farmer has 10 haul his grain, his hay
and his vegetables through. II. instead
OF the mud holes, there were hard,
smooth roads, It is easy TO SEQ that Il
would cost less to get tho output OF tho
farm to tho markets of tho towns. A.
least ono-half Of that saving In cost
would 60 into the pockets OF the farm
ers. SO good roads would bo distinct
blessing to tho people who live in tho
country.
There are two sides TO this story, a,i
there arc to all stories. Tho farmer
would not DO tho only gamer by this
change of affairs. The laws OF commerce
have always forced tho producer, II ho
hnds way Of reducing the cost OF pro-
duction, to divide tho saving with tho
purchaser. II | ann engaged In the
manufacture OF wooden shoes and hy
boino now invention nm enabled to save
ven cents on each pair | make, pocket
i've cents OF this now profit and charge
five cents less pair for the shoes sell,
thus putting the other five cents into tho
pocket Of the wooden shoe buying pub
iic. My five cents makes mo happy and
The other ilyo cents makes the wooden
shoe buying public happy, It would DO
the same way with the farmer. II he
were enabled through tiio medium Of
good roads 10 raise and market his wares
AZ less cost than he does nov, ho would
h. willing TO sell them for less price
than ho does now. lie would divide his
new profits with his customers. In that
way the people who eat what tho farmer
raises would bo ablo to eat moro ut
smaller cost. So good roads would be
dittinct blessing TO people who live IN
the towns.
But somebody or other says that both
tho profits would he more than annim-
lated by tho money which both rccipi-
enls would have 20 pay ont IN taxes to
build the roads, which Is nonsense. Not
very many years ago women were max
ing their husbanda' shirts by hand All
tho OUTFIT they had 10 own wasa thinblc,
thread and needle, worth in all ten
cents by and by some smart fellow in
vented tho sowing muclino and put it
on the market, 1t cost then at least
htty dollars, which was $3.50 mora
IMAM tho other arrangement cost, Int
dld any one cry out that tho sewing
machine wouldn't pay because Il was
more expensive than tho old simpNclties!
Not to speak or Tho women could
mako twice az many shirts in tho same
length OF time IN tho nov way as they
could in the old way, fnd mako them
twice rs well. They didn't have to
spend that fifty dollars ON every shirt
~ furnished means for making 1900
shirts II tho husband required that
many. Therefore the seTiug machine