Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-18

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ten ali the cara that we wanted and as
promptly as we wanted them ana SNIP,
ped all our stock 70 market that ina.
rush, whether the rea loss Wpuiu ~
ont because wc know thst whenever
tbn markets are loaded beyond the ca :
nncity OF tho packlnghouses prices
must go down, and packers as ~.
are not anxious to Keep them up aiu
whenever they yet a chance 10 put
then, do,yn n little they tako advantage
Of that chance and large run gives
them that chance / believe mat tlns
association. and VIC as people ought
to be fair with the railroads ana MANI
them give us fair treatment
ON THE SQUARE DEAL.
.There has got TO be q kind Of fad or
frenzy. 81 nall Il what you Will. through
the country. that you want TO take anu
knock at every large enterprise ana ~.
ery corporation. ! think IL has almost
become a craze. Certain magazines W.
living upon II entirely. our resolutions
ought 10 be framed ~ such way as 10
he absolutely fair to the railroads ana
demand fair treatment from them Ihey
should have The same rights as an lhal-
vidual--nothlng more ana nothlns less,
XXI, should give them a square deal ana
there Is no square deal that is not deait
from square deck and square TO a'i
The parties throughout the game GAP
plause).
II fnd there has been an immense re-
duction in freight charges on the ran
roads, and / have reference more par
tiruariv to wyoming and 10 part OF ,he
railroads here and In Idaho. | believe.
And / flnd this condition. That IN lSio
the Chicago q Northwestern charged
500 cents per mile per ton Tor Inovihs
freight. Now they are charging W OF
cent. The G. y, & Q. charged Quo
cents In 1870. and now they are charg.
inr SO of a cent. The Union Pacific 4t2o
only. and now 97. making a reduction
of over 10 per cent In freight charges
since 1870 Now, hive the stoektrlep
got an equal reduction IN the same
time? IT not. why not? II Is ~. 70
the railroads 70 explain. I haven't had
time 10 look into this subject, conse-
nuently cannot say; but the average
reduction IN freight charges by these
three large roads has been over ~ per
cent since 1870. chr, Hagenbarth lells
nle that the charges on livestock nave
Increased from 20 per cent to 70 per
cent?. see Mr.. Irwin OF the Union Pa
citic figuring He VIII probably tell us
why later. Laughter.
ION THE 2s-HoUR LAW"
linen gnOtncl subject W 'bhi' W
for discussion will be what is called
the '2s-hour law, or a modification Of
the .3g-hour' law Mr.. Goodwin VIII
remember that the sheep men In DEN
yer last year wanted speed ntult
Our friends of the other contention
did not, and the railroads very kindly
IN most places, l understand. nave
taken the extra eight hours to lay on
sldlngs CLaughter) They simply
had 10 use the time. At the convention
I'm Denver a committee was appointed
TO vist the livestock exchanges ana
see II they would not meet us nicely
and kindly take off the s2 per car tney
had increased sheep. Your committee
visited them In Kansas City, Chicago
and Omaha, and had several meetings
jn Denver The outcome of II was the
Co-operatiye Commission company,
had a letter a few days before | LETT
home which said that In Kansas CITY,
after four months business. they stand
seventh on the list of houses doihs
business there What It IS In the
other tates | do not know, but MI
HALEY is here 10 speak specially on
that subject, / viii say that we are
working In conjunction with the
great many shippers are stockholaers
in II. / believe that the largest amount
Of stock anyone can hold rs SouV'
Now. as TO the prospects OF the fu-
ture of our Interests | don't ne
lieve there has ever been n time in
the history Of the whole industry that
Inc prospects were brighter than they
nre today IL we could only get the
clouds on forest reserves ana pubhc
land matters cleared from tho SKY
] believe that is the only thing that
can have an evil effect upon the IN
dustry.
PRICES HIGH. USE GREAT.
"Thc prices of wool and mutton for
the past year have kept at higher
level. believe. than ever before for
IL months in the history of the bust
ness, and there seems to be no pros
pect of n reduction. Even the wool
men are beginning TO try 10 contract
~ little and | can see no reason why
the prices this year should be any low
ar than last year.
'@rhe United States today has about
10 per cent OF the sheep of the world,
and yet with that 10 per cent OF sheep
we have absolutely made no increase
in the production of wool or mutton
in the last 20 years. About 20 years
ago the wool crop was about 100000
900 pounds Gin 1880. and in 1905 only
5000 900 pounds more. In 1854 we
used 1871 per cent of foreign wool.
Last year we used 45,5 per cent So
that today we are practically import
ing one-half the entire wool used in
this country. Whether we have
reached our limit OF production Of
not. | am not able 10 say; but one
thing is morally certain. that the
opening MP Of this great west and with
the increase Of sheep Of the great west
we have absolutely not increased any
within 20 odd years,
Now in regard to the mutton bust
Iesa. There is only one way YOU can
compare these things and that is 10
sham with pt
duct / iind that the river markets
and Chicago in 1856 used 100000
cattle, and IN 1905, S,372, 000 head, or
an increase AZ this time OF almost goo
Dor cent. In 1856 sheep received at
this market WAS 1,564.000 head, or
ono-half the number OF cattle receive
ed IN those markets in that year In