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Show WHEAT AND FLOUR RATE. Rate of 52 Cents on Palouse Products Effective Today Will Help the Railroads. The new rate of fifty-two cents a hundred on (lour and heat from the Talouse country goes l.ito effect todas and will have the ettect of advancing the cost of Imported wheat at once from seventy-nlre cents to eighty-five cents a bushel ln anticipation of this tho local millers have been shipping In the grain us fast as they could during dur-ing the past two weeks, while com-mission com-mission men have been equally active In Importing the Oretjon Hour In all prohabllits the price of the latter commodity com-modity will be advanced In a ery short time The new rate was given, it is understood, under-stood, at the earnest Insistence of the millers, and was designed ror their pleasure and glory and profit, at hast that la what they claim But It Is difficult dif-ficult to understand how the millers or nnsnne else la going to reap uns benefit ben-efit from the change. With Hour nn 1 wheat tarlirs on nn equality, Just na they were under the forty-cent rate, the millers will be no more free from the competition of Oregon millers than they were two weeks ago As soon as tho wheat they now have on hand Is corsumed they will be In the same position In which they nlwasa hnvo been The onls apparent result will be that the railroads will get six cents more a bushel for hauling the grain which the public will In tho end have to pay It Is estimated that not less than 200 000 bushels of wheat have been shipped In from Oregon and Wushlng ton since December ist.when the forty, cent rate waa first secured For thla an average price of fifty cents a bush, el was paid, maklns J10OO00 caBh which was sent out of the State to buy bread Upon thla wheat a freight tailff of twenty.fbur Lents a bushel wns paid making Jib 000 additional outlay nom tho pockets or Utah people Last rail when the local ctop waa harvested, n large amount of the wheat was sold for forty cents a bushel and shipped to Colorado points The amount Is variously estimated nt rrom 100,000 to ISO 000 bushels. Assuming the latter figure to bo eortect, the rallrouds Picked up nearly $13,000 on the trans, fer This last sum, while, it did not come directly fiom Utah pockets, might hnve been place 1 there If the wheat had been held and sold a few months later at home. It will thus appear that noirly JIOO.OOO hus been donated to tho railroad companies for their service lu hauling wheat out of tho Stnto nnd then hauling It back ngaln, and this sum will bo vastly augmented bfuro the next crop is nady for tho Inmost. Tho average eltlnen, who has noth. Ins- to do with the Hour trade except to go to the grocer occasionally nnd pay whatever la nsked for n sack of Hour, congratulating himself that It Is no more, mas' bo excused for wondering wonder-ing why tho wheat of tho Utnh fanner Is not kept at home and ground by tho Utah miller Instead of being sent awny and then returned at grievous exrense. |