The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-15
GRUB TELLS WHY
LIVING IS So HIGH
Agricultural Expert Here to Fix
Conditions for the Prize to
Potato Growers.

Eugene Grub of Jerome, Ida. a promi-
nent consulting agriculturist, and who is
a member of the board of directors of
the Colorado Agricultural college at
Fort Collins, Colo, is in Salt Lake, COM
ing here to confer with ID. e. Burnley,
general passenger agent of the Oregon
Short Line, with reference to a potato
contest inaugurated by Mr.. Burley and
open to farmers adjacent to the entire
Short Line system. Mr.. Grub is an au-
| thOrity on agriculture, especially with
reference to the growing of potatoes. In
| addition to his dictatorship with the Colo
RADIO college. he is consulting agricul-
turist Tor the Twin Falls North Side Land
q Water company, the Twin Fails Salmon
River Land & Water company and the
/ Twin Falls Oakley Land q Water COM
pany.
Mr.. Grubbs chief mission here is to
confer with Mr.. Burley with reference to
! the distribution of the 500 offered by the
latter for the best acre of potatoes grown
adjacent to the Short Line system. The
rules of the contest, which is to con-
tinue until next fall, will likely be draft
ed within the next few days, at which
time it will be decided whether the $500
shall go as one prize or be divided into
two or more parts.
Speaking of the agricultural outlook,
and especially with reference to condi-
/
said conditions were never so favOra bic
as they have been during the past few
years, and, what is more, the outlook for
the future is unusually bright. More
capital is being interested in farming,
there is a better class of settlers taking
up land and devOting it to farming, more
rapid development is noticed and there is
constantly improving market for farm
produce.
''The irrigation promoters" said Mr..
Grub, ARE doing, if possible more valu-
able and practical work in the develop
ment and distribution of water for the
settlers than was ever dreamed OF few
years ago. The railroads are making
better rates and concessions for transpor-
tatiOn of farm produce to the markets of
the east and south, and conditions, gen.
orally, are on the improve"
Asked to voice his sentiments on the
high cost of living problem, Mr.. Grubb
said it had its inception during the pam
icky days of 1898, and that point has
been reached from which it will take the
country years to recover. For the first
time since the civil war, the gra naries OF
the world, he said, are empty, and it is
but natural that with such a shortage,
prices should soar Mr.. Grubb told of
! increasing consumption, and reduced pro-
duction, and then paid a tribute to the
| farmers by saying:
THE farmer creates the wealth of
America. 1t all depends on the farmer
! He is a mighty power in America, and 1t
| is up to him if the country is over-sup-
Piled or if prices reach aerial heights
The beef trust, in the opinion of Mr.
Grub. cannot regulate meat prices, but
it all rests with the cattlemen, If the
beef trust, he said, was to attempt to
boost prices, capital to combat the fight
would soon be forthcoming. Every farm
err every retail man. every private owner,
could slaughter. and the beef trust would
soon be forced out of existence.
Mr.. Grub said the shortage in food
stuffs and the attendant high costs were
a natural outcome of present conditions
and that it would take years before con-
ditions are relieved to such an extent
that wholesale reductions can be ex
pected.