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Show The following letter from (ienorul ', V). M, Harnum was crowded out yesterday yester-day morning by a press of other matter mat-ter in typo when it was received : Salt Lake City, Oct. 20. 1S7J. EiUtm Jkvahl: At tho instance and request of many miners, merchants aud business men of Utah, L went east early in September, Septem-ber, for the purpose of presenting to the o Ulcers and directors of tho Union ; Pacilic railroad company certain facts ; and statistics in relation to tho develop- j mcnt and production of Utah mines, and ol' urging upon them tho necessity of establishing a uniform and lower tariff of freights for ores and bullion over that road. The argumenta offered were to tho c fleet that these freights should bo at tho lowest practicable rales but littlo abovo cost especially that they should be uniform, without discrimination, and permanent a vas-cillaling vas-cillaling and frequently advancing scale of rat 03 being greatly detrimental to these interests. After three weekjof dilligent effort in this behalf, on the 23th and 20th of j September, at New York city, the as- j surancc was given me by Mr. Scott, president of I lie company, that are- : duclion of rates had been determined j on, and that instructions for the same ' would immediately be forwarded to tho general superintendent at Omaha. Ln reply to my inquiry as to what were the rales to be made, he stated substantially as follows : "Piftecn dollars per ton for ores the amount for bullion I do not remember and cannot can-not give you without rutbreiice lo papers iu Philadelphia think it is $20 or 22, or thereabouts." On my expressing a desire to telegraph tele-graph to Utah this proposed reduction of rate?, Mr. Scott dissented, remarking, remark-ing, ''I don't want anything telegraphed telegraph-ed in relation thereto it miief, cr through the General Superintendent-instructions Superintendent-instructions have been ordered (o be sent htm in the luattcr. " At a second and final interview, Mr. Scittagaiu assured me that instructions instruc-tions for a reduction had been ordered lo be made out that rates lor ore would be $15 per ton and that before my arrival at Omaha, those orders would probably bo in Mr.- Sickles, hands. Could any gentleman expect more was necessary ? On arrival at Omaha, Oct. o, my surprise was great lo bo informed that nothing had been received from President Scott in regard (o reduction of Utah freights. Tho General Superintendent also expressed his regret at the possibility of receiving instructions (o freight Utah o(es at 15 per tou. .').'-, The management aud general policy of the road is adverse to rapid development devel-opment of the mines of Ulah. While both ores and bullion can be freighted from Omaha to New York,l.jiX) milea, at 1-1 por ton, or $1-10 per car, the U. P. Co. are charging from Ogden to Omaha, Iu;i2 miles," $18 25 per ton for ore and LS for bullion. - - The very statement of these figures carry in them a full refutation of any plea lhat this road is accomplishing or endeavoring to accomplish that grand work lor which senators and representatives represent-atives in congress were so eloquent in advocating that enormous and muuili-cenl muuili-cenl subsidy of bonds and lauds, to wit: the opening up and development of the vast mineral resources of the heart of our continent. 1 . A single iaet of which I am assured j oy gentlemen who know whereof they altirm, shows a screw loose somewhere, I Prom Chicago to Cheyenne, hy way of ! Kansas city to Denver, freights are ' actually less than from Omaha to Chcy- ennc ! In the month of March last, Oliver' Ames, president, and T. k Sickles,! chief engineer and superiiiten Jent, 1 united in presenting a joint "report lo the stockholders of ihe Uuiou Pacr- I fie railroad" in whieh- they set forth ; ihe prospects lor a large increase ol" business to the road, dwelling largely ' on "developments-made in the Utah silver mines, the great extent of country coun-try owned by them, (he richness of the : uies, and the kuve amount uf pu&scn-j pu&scn-j r and freight, buMncss incident ' luercio. ' 1 I ,. A I , ft it. -urn..- .-an. i no uiiueij iu the vicinity ol hilt Lake are exciting great atteuLiuu. 1: i.s. oaliuiatcd that from tun to liiiccn thousand scalers and nuuci-s will b dnuvn there I he eri.u-jug eri.u-jug .-oasoii. The amount of ores to be sent over our road to smelting works cast aud iu Euglaud is estimated lo be lrom jijo to 1 ,0u0 tons daily; while the machinery aud supplies necessary to develop successfully and profitably the mines, will give a very large wet-ward wet-ward buiuesa to our road." Mr. Sickles says; "U is estimated by well-informed persons now in Utah that 1,iv0 tons, at least, of ore aud ba.:e bullion will pas.s over the road daily, during the miuiug season of tho year, ihe production of ores will be tiuther ttimulaud by the extension , during the present summer, of tho Utah Central railroad to Pay-on, seventy-live miles south of Salt Lake 1 eity." The amouut of oro and bullion sent eastward iroiu the Utah mines, had ' reached in the month of July, over 100 . tons per day; the road advanced freights more than one hundred per cent.; in August, shipments eastward fell tc seventeen tons per day; in September Sep-tember still lower; westward freights of ore and bullion increased. Had these gentlemen, in making the report, from which the above extracts i are taken, been one-half as earned lor , devdoping and fostering minim; inter csts and large produeiionsin Utah, as they were zealous for bulling U. P. I stocks in the New York market, the i grand results predicted would have ' been more than realized. E. M. Barxi m. Salt Lake City, Oct. 20.LS71. |