Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-30
CONDITIONS misunderstood. .

ments of some sort in return for that
which we desire.
CONDITIONS MISUNDERSTOOD.
Figures, it is said. never lie, but fig.
uTes and charts viewed without first
considering the conditions which lie
oacR of them or weighing the Influences
or compelling causes at work when
tney were made, often lead to contra
dlctionS which delude and result in
erroneous and unjust conclusions. The
cry that the railroads of this sec
ton are expressing the people and over
charging their patrons. believe 10 be
largely caused by misunderstanding
Of conditions under which the trans
portation business is conducted,
result contributed to not little by
repetition of statements with reference
thereto which are economic untruths
OF enc of these in particular the So
called terminal rate, l shall speak
later on
Hat ! the time and artistic ability,
| might produce and exhibit Il chart
covering the rate adjustment in this
ntermountin country which would
show some interesting facts For in
stance. it would show:
a great mining and smelling indus
try, burrowing thousand hills, and
pouring into the lap of the country
an ever increasing stream of wealth:
and industry carried on by thousands
of able and enterprising citizens, made
possible because of rates OH ore, con-
centrales, matte, bullion, limestone,
coal, coke, machinery and many other
items incident to the business, which
the conditions under which mountain
roads are built and operated considered,
are not more favorable anywhere.
INA f-,n,
1t would show nine great sugar fac
tories in profitable operation, creating
II market for local products and labor
producing a vast tonnage for shipment
out of the country, as well as supplying
the local demand, dlsbursing large
sums OF money here, all impossible
but for rates on sugar outbound and
machinery inbound, on coke and lime
stone and other necessities, including
the lowest rates locally on beets carried
anywhere in the country, even in Iowa
with its now, commission made dis
lance tariff.
Great cement making plants, fostered
and encouraged in the same way, with
II vast output moving all over the
West.
Something like 80 fruit and vegetable
canneries in the Salt Lake and We
Der valleys and two condensed milk
factories in the Cache valley, reaching
markets hundreds of miles distant.
Prosperous local creameries located
at many different points along the line
and doing n thriving business.
Plants for the making of pressed
brick and vitrfied brick. cement blocks
and sewer pipe and drain tile; and
quarries of building stone and phos-
plate rock moving their products for
long distances on low rates made by
these lines.
OTHER GREAT INDUSTRIES.
Lime burning plants, ice making
plants and industries of similar nature
the OUTPUT of which moves long dis
tances which would be impossible but
for the favorable rates established;
breweries and mineral water bottlins
works and vinegar works rates Tor
which have been put in from time TO
time to enable them to reach out and
meet competition.
Flour milling Industries strung clear
across Utah and Idaho, whose output
seeks consumption not locally only,
but in centers reached on long hauls
and at rates which 1t has been found
necessary to reduce repeatedly. with
milling in transit privileges which have
been established and which are con-
.tinually being extended In order 10
facilitate their business.
One Of the largest pickle works In
the county here in Salt. Lake, doing a
thriving business in products sold 10
calIy and shipped hundreds Of miles
away, assembling rates for ITS raw
materials and rates out on It's products
having been established which enable
it to prosper.
A great candy manufacturing bust
ness, OF which Utah Is proud and mas
a right to be, an enterprise great and
profitable Notwithstanding differences
Of opinion concerning some of the rate
adjustments in which these concerns
are Interested, features of which are
nj this time under discussion and likely