The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-24
POWER Of WHEAT
IN WORLD TODAY
Interesting Paper by James ].
Hill Read Before National
Millers' Association.
NEED OF AN INCREASE
in TERMINAL FACILITIES
Question That Has Much to Do
With Welfare of Country
Broadly Discussed.

| MINNEAPOLIS, June 2s.-"Wbeat.-
was tho subject of discussion at todayss
| meeting OF the National Association OF
Millers. The subject was treated in a
paper prepared by J. ]. Hlll chairman OF
the board Of directors Of the Great
Northern railway. and read by Charles
g. jenkins OF Noblcsville. Ind. Mr.. Hi
was unable TO attend the meeting
Prof. G., l. Christie, superintendent of
aBricuitural extension. Purdue university
SPOKE on What One Experiment Station
auction, and Prof. A. r Woods dean
and director of the Minnesota agricul-
s sural experiment station, st. Paul, ad-
eptssed ents the convention on What Mime
sofa Might Do TO Aid In Greater Guam
| tity OF Wheat"
| lows -'
'One fact, 1t seems to Inc. should r;vs
you more concern than almost any 9th
en: because you have already felt its
enects and because It looms large and
dangerous. This is the pressure upon ex-
isting terminal facilities. 1t is a future
menace and present handicap. You
nave ielt, and will continue 10 feel, the
partial p embargo that traffic conditions
nave placed upon all the business of the
country: upon yours. Perhaps as seri-
ousiy as any other. The milling interest
oir,,d ol inc entire country, except where it
/
| lne plnGh or the transportation situation
| and VIII In the future feel 1t more Sc
vi vorGiy. The growth of the country in
population, In production In transporta
| tlon business has been marked There
mas mas not been corresponding growth In
the facilities for transportation.
Congested Traffic.
| For months past 1t has been impossi
bic TO get freight shipments delivered
| promptly II these have to be Translated
| rJ.t
| clpal terminal points The flood of busl-
ness 1hat rose TO such dangerous height
IN l9Oi is piline up again. with the ad-
| dltions made by national growth since
| then- The future Will add in increasing
| ratio to these difficulties, as we'll as 10
n ene losses , they involve The only prob
| transportation agencies. and especjslIy
upon terminals. where the greatest dIf-
nenlty @ e1ists Is the decline of our ex-
port port trade; The demand of the home
| consumer Is lessening the volume OF our
| export OF foodstuffs, and Will affect SINH
| ariy some other Items on the list. But
| this change Will bring relief to the car
rier only in so far as export terminals
| are concerned
AN enormous volume of new traffic is
being developed by the industrial ad-
| sissippi river and the Pacific coast. All
| OF this must seek its market: and much
OF II viii be added to the total that al
| ready oVerburdens our terminals
| In the great markets of the eastern
| nan OF the country. in New York, Cleve-
| land. Buffalo, Chicago. tho crisis has all
| ready arrived. Traffic growth and ter
Ininal congestion are applying the brakes
| 10 business progress. This means trouble
| FOR the whole country. II is no more
disastrous TO have the banks close their
doors than to have the railroads choked
The interest which you represent must
suffer with the others. and therefore Il
| should be taking thought with others for
| the future. For the same cause will
Of In,
Suggested Remedy.
What Is the remedy? or conrse
there is none cut and dried. complete and
| effective, for an evil that has been grow
ing for so long a time, and which publi-
cation thus FAR has tended to intensity
rather than TO diminish The best that
can be done is TO offer suggestions for
tentative and partial relief. and then &c
engage the best thought and effort OF
the whole country, especially of business
men and associations such as yours In
an effort TO lessen the tension that now
strangles trade. Where terminals can ba
| indebtedness. that, OF course. is the nat
ural remedy. Existing facilities also NAV
be made more effective.
Decentralization OF traffic terminals
offers a partial cure, partially only. how
| ever. because it is applicable only to a
portion OF the business to be done. Some
of the through business OF the country
can be diverted to other points than
those where 1t now collects but tho
great central markets cannot he de-
stroyed, nor tho bulk of their business
affected.
Possible Relief,
"Thero is, however. a considerable eie-
ment In our traffic aggregate which IS
capable of decentralization. Take YOUR
own Industry, for example, because both
your raw material and your product are
bulky and heavy articles. You are, per-
haps. more interested than others. since
you are most likely. TO suffer from ter
minal congestion. IT is worth while 10
consider whether considerable share OF
your distributing business could not bo
rcadjusted. IT orders went direct 10 the
mills from the smaller cities and towns,
and shipments were made direct to them
instead of being consigned to central
agencies, and thence transferred to buy
ers, IL would make less business for tor
minnls- By such process of decentral-
izatlon, adopted by business generally
much relief might be obtained
THE problem of terminals Is the great-
est problem of the country. the problem
of transportation agencies of Gnanciers
Of the communities directly affected and
of all the industries that depend directly
or indirectly upon cheap and speedy car
riago for the commodities which they
buy and sell. 1t is problem for every
body, since probably not one business
man in the whole country would fall to
feel the disastrous effects IL It were TO
be neglected for the next five years as
IL has for the last ten, and To blight
every form OF activity by paralyzing the
whole trade