Show Flour Shipped c Into the Basin C Creamery Trucks and Others Bringing g In Flour at Very I Low w Cost COo t of Transportation Trans Making linking Uintah Basin Wheat Go down lestro destroying Local Market This paper Is not fully Informed but butIes gives I es the following data as ns apprOximately approximately correct concerning the unsatisfactory unsatisfactory factory practice of trucks bringing In flour from outside mills for forer er very low costs and distributing It around among customers Creamery trucks we we- weare are advised actually ac ne- actually tu II have ha solicited trade from customers customers customers cus cus- who nee need flour offering them pr prices little hove above the Salt take Lake and Ogden retail delivered loed nt at their homes Ill la- lathe the tho runny many man places where cream Is gathered Prices of 85 cents per 50 GO pound sack are given In n customers weare we weare are re told We e are arc further advised that I outside mills have e Informed local or basin trucks that they then the mills will meet any local mill mUl prices Not Sot only are creamery trucks resortIng resortIng resorting resort- resort Ing to tills Hils practice to secure hack back hauling hauling- or to avoid u comin coming home empty but are increasing their business busi busi- business ness b by using Hour lour in this way war and offering It at per hundred weight at basin common points this side of Vernal ernal It has haR been heen impossible Jle to tomake tomake make snake a thorough investigation atIo 1 of the practice but if these statements are approximately correct the farmers farmers farmers' should do something NOW and make makeI I It a concerted move moye to protect themselves them them- J selves The Uintah na Basin ln is short on wheat but under the former formel practice a n ner er very large arge amount of wheat comes in as bread each day and considerable flour has been trucked In during the last lust year ar besides the bread wants 1 0 to to get et n a high l price fc for wheat but ut un uni under un- un i der the conditions th the farmer Is 19 1 eel ed to at le least st 70 0 cents per bushel No truck may mar economically n transport this t v T product as bread or n as flour and make makem m 1 1 Continued on Last Lash Page x c DONT DON'T CRUCIFY WHEAT Farmers of Duchesne county should realize that every time a n sack of or flour flourIs Is brou brought bt from outside the Basin the market for wheat has haR been lessened to that extent Last Jast year ear wheat sold in the Basin at a price in excess of ot the price outside of the Basin in Utah Wheat has hus been selling out outside Ide the Basin this year for 2 25 to 30 cents and some being i quoted at 33 cents centRo we understand We Wedo Wedo Wedo do not produce more wheat than thun we ned for consumption If It Basin hl people consume Basin flour m the advantage of freight would be hH ours Note A Note A in report Mondays Monday's paper gives e the price of wheat at nt NephI as ns running from 43 d to 55 cents per bushel bushI bush bush- el I County Extension Agent I p II THAT RAILROAD J WILL COME Continued ll from Page e 1 1 of about one hundred million dollars if it railroad facilities were afforded This I Is a n sample of or that which we 1 regard as ns injustice If It the Indian may muy pre present nt his evidence e 1200 or fewer aborigines ma may not white people people people peo peo- do the same It looks look t to the ordinary ordinary or or- man that we should eh But nut we have hare other grounds on which appeal to hI higher her courts will be he taken am and we shall fight it out Justice will prevail even though h it takes one to three e years Let them make the cut cut- off oll That is all ri right ht But we want that railroad Colorado granted rante 17 17 in holds bonds to make that tunnel Dave Dnn Moffat spent all he had trIn trying to get set a railroad through this territory terrItory territory terri terrI- tory and the people were assured when they voted those bonds that it would remove the last harrier barrier and as us- assume sume the line through this inland coun coun- try It is essentially a bl big unite as aR much In Colorado as in Utah The taxpayer in Northwest Colorado is not getting a n square deal Utah will have to fight jointly with her sister state stute and that means meun the common people effected to secure this line Hue It is Justified It must come In the platform of the republican party not so long ago ngo is the plank that pled pledged ed the party to work for tor this railroad When Governor Ex-Governor Mabey made his hiA last stand for tor that high h offic office of of- fic flee fice and when he came to Duchesne and wirter of these lines was was was' county comity chairman he lie did not mention that plank here except b by special request Republicans controlled the legislature ure are and yet et not n a sin single h move mo was made to make good to do that which the party part platform promised Perhaps democrats would have e done no more It Is not a n party Issue and yet set a parry party par pal ry ty ty all parties should back it But nut the railroad fight tight is going on More Mor news is ready than may be he well printed We are fighting Our side has not been told but It will be heard and read rend |