Show BAUWAY BATES It will be good news to the Utah farmers far-mers that was presented in THE HERALDS HER-ALDS interview with Colonel Shelby of the Union Pacific published on Saturday Satur-day The railroads have at last irn eluded that it will be wise to lend a helping hand to the producers of this Territory Heretofore the policy has seemingly been to use Utah for build ingiip other sections of the country The Union Pacifics friendly course towards Nebraska made that a great I and prosperous Slate at the expense of I all the region west of it Some officials of the road have been free to admit that little or no interest has been taken in this Territory Utah was regarded as belonging to the railroad as a matter of course while efforts were directed towards the development devel-opment of the agricultural resources of Nebraska and Kansas and the building up of great industries in those States whatever Utah did was done by hers r I I unaided and not only unaided but I actually handicapped by a pronounced discrimination against For years i the farmers here have been plead = lug to be admitted to the markets in which they had a right by reason of their location to compete but all to no purpose Their appeals were denied and their protests disregarded disre-garded We will not soon forget how a few years ago when wheat bins were full and flouring mills stored high with bags the freight rate on flour was higher from Cache County to Montana than from Missouri Rivera thousand I miles farther away to Montana There have been times here when the Utah i farmer was rich in the products of the soil but miserably poor I as regards money simply because he could not move his grain to market We have held from the first that it was a mistaken policy on the part of the railroads to bar Utah from espoiiing her products that the discrimination against the Territory was injurious to the railways as well as to the people here Development and production Utah mean money for the railways the latter must necessarily share in the prosperity of the communities along their lines If the railways will manifest the same degree of interest in Utah as in the other States and Territories our pro gress and development will be much taster than they have been Being fenced in and kept from the markets which belong to him the lot of the Utah farmer has been a hard one Grain raiiing has been made unprofitable whereas with our productive soil it should be one of the most remunerative branches of agriculture It is of small account to the farmer that his farm will yield from thirty to fifty bushels ol wheat per acre if it costs more to get that wheat to market than it can be sold for Wheat has been sold for less than the freight charge to the Missouri River The railroads have fixed upon a rate of40 cents per hundred This is higher than it should be but it is 35 per cent lower than it has been and in ordinary seasons will enable farmers to send their surplus grain to market The assurance assur-ance is also given that the rate will not be changed for some time at least hence the farmer may make his calculations to some purpose More wheat and barley will undoubtedly be sown this year in consequence of the railroads action for those crops should now be reasonably remunerative |