The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-07
a COLLIER APPRECIATION.

We have not ourselves paid much
attention to Collier Weekly, finding
as we do that its presentations are
usually biased and unfair. 1t is nat
urally prone TO effect rather than fact
and candor But our city contem'
poraries appear to be paying consider
able attention to Collier s, and we ac-
cordingly reproduce from that publica-
tion of MAY 25th the following sweep
ing generalities about Utah;
OF course the people OF any State must
work TO get the best OF their resources,
and must protect themselves. Take
no man need rush West 10 claim any
set-rlch-quicS rewards The fine coal
deposits lie some forty feet un-
der the pasture-land surfaces. The rail-
road coal companies bored down at in
tervals over two counties, and wherever
they found good coal they hired home
steaders and grabbed the land. Coal
doubled In price as their hold tiGhtened,
and today the railroad rate on the coal
for the l00-mile haul to Salt Lake is a
scandal. 1t is just four and n half times
as great as the rate on lime rock. hauled
the same distance I'm the same cars In
the same trains to Friend Guggenheim' g
smelters, to be used as f1uN.
The salt is there, but SO also Is a Salt
L L uSls oDille enSlnctIS OIL the " est
ern Pacific laying the line found the salt.
They figured they could scoop 1t up
for about ten cents the ton. The Salt
Trust, which gets about seven dollars
cents n ton to mine, let the engineers
know that every place they started to
put that salt ON the market the price
OF salt would drop 10 about five cents a
ton Utah's iron deposits are, as we
have said, remarkable, but years ago the
Steel Trust looked the fields over and
grabbed lease on them. so that there they
lie, miles from any railroad they just
lie and lie. At Bingham Canyon, where
the copper Is just scooped UP, 1t is all
scooped into a Guggenhem shovel, y
dozen years ago. before the Guggenheim
grip was made fast upon the smelling
copper bullion from Salt Lake TO New
York. And for wool, produced under
about the same relationship. with the
railroads, the rate was about s4S per ton
also. But as the railroad lobby began to
be hard pressed in Washington 1t needed
aid and comfort from the power OF
Guggenheim, The diclserlng that re-
suited brought immediate effect
on the bullion rate. Today the rate on
wool. produced and possessed by a fairly
large number OF people, is still S4S. But
the rate OF bullion has dropped until it
Is only SIP per ton The Guggenhelms
arc about the only shippers So about
all the people OF Utah have to do with
their fine copper deposits is to watch a
large army or Greek, Austrian Hun
gsrian. and italian laborers-living IN
company owned villagcs-scoop It up and
pass the profits along. How long will the
System last?
It is not difficult to present effective,
contrasting ccneralities like this if one
cares little for precision and accuracy.
There is shadow Of truth in some of
the contrasting presentations as made
but they are badly misleading as a
general proposition. However, we pre-
sent them in order that the course of
our contemporaries in pinning their
faith upon Golfers can be fairly
| Judged by the public Of Utah.