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Show HIGHER FREIGHT TARII FS. The I'nion Paeitie tin-l l'.-ntr;d i'a- r ; i t i ' ICadrol.i ll.lVi: i.-iftl ItJ 1 HCW fl'f igl . t lariho, wh'f ii went into clleet Ve.-ter- j day, and are- a nuileriid inen.-a.-e on pii.-vi'.i freight rate.s. 'Dii-s ri.-e in iV'ijht.- is :i matter cun.-idi-ral j .!Hr..n.-e Uj the- p.rjph- of I'lah, and .'oiuiiig ;m it do'-, at a lime when hi wm-.- i rather dull, -'-.an- to u.i to U.' i itht-r n lix-ly or an ill-advbi.d ', ppjeeediiig. The Central r.ieitic : (ajtnpanv giv-., ;i.s a reiL-ju for tln;;id- vanei;, that San Franeiseo mereliaiiL- have- taki 11 a.lvaut.e-'e of its lilx ral ' r. dii' tiuii- of freight in the p.Ht to rai-.-th.-e ii e of mop-hail'!:-'' ; and thai, .'on.-.ineiith-h hi-te;vd of the in. rebuilt of Utah n.-etiving lh- ad-v.uil.tg'' ad-v.uil.tg'' of thesf ridnetion-, and tin-toiinag.- i arrii-d over the road fonn the I'aeili-Coast to Salt Lake bring ' nerea.-ed, the nierchanLsof San Fran- eisc aluiie derived beuctit, by hi-riTLLdiig hi-riTLLdiig proportioiialL-ly the price of their g'Rids, while the amount of freight p.-ing eastward from wot of the Sierra Nevada mountains ha.n de-ere:L-n.l in-Uad of being inereaeil. Thi.i show ing U not cre-titab le to the San FraneUco merehanU whom it implieat.-s ; yet there U another recoil why the tonnage coming cast-wanl cast-wanl from the Faeiiic to Utah is re-dueid, re-dueid, and it Ls found in the advanced ad-vanced price of gold. Aa long iw California clings to gold as its me dium of currency, just so long will it he uiiahle to successfully compete witli the East, where legal tenders form the currency, for every tluetua-lion tluetua-lion in the price of gold directly and instantly aM'ects the California market; mar-ket; and buyers who purchase on thirty, sixty or ninety days, may buy nominally atone price, gold being that day at a certain figure, but when they come to pay and have to purchase the gold to make (heir payments at an increased in-creased premium, the price of their good., lias been materially advanced al-ove the invoice figures turned into legal tenders at the date of purchase. With the Union Pacific no such reasoning, for or against, is adniis-sahle. adniis-sahle. That company, through ihj freight agent, Mr. Yining, has; determined deter-mined upon this advance in this dull season, and the result can only be to injure business with interior merchants. mer-chants. The increased freights will be added to the co-4 of the goods, for mercantile men here are doing business busi-ness upon margins of profit whieh will not bear farther priming, and they cannot continue to sell goods at their present figures with an increase of freight. Apparently Mr. Yining does not understand the trade of the threat llasin, and does not comprehend compre-hend that by a grasping policy of this kind he can do the road he represents a vast amount of injury. He and thO'C who view matters in the same light may say, "There is no other road over which you can get your freight, and you must come to our terms. There is concert between lis and the Central Pacific, and it lias advanced its larill as the Union Pacific Pa-cific has advanced, and you have no choice but to accept our terms." This tyle of reasoning, which we have heard indulged in, betrays an utter lack of comprehension of the agencies at work to make the great overland line a better paying road than it is to-dr.y, to-dr.y, and the result of turning those agencies in a diflerent direction. There is such a thing as encouraging encourag-ing development along the line of railway, to assist the sale of railway lands, the formation of settlements, and the building up of tho country through whieh the road passes, producing pro-ducing a consequent increase of its freight and passenger trailic. It is possible that some Eastern gentlemen, possesing a certain controlling power in the Union Pacific, may not sec this, but sec only the present receipts and consider the speediest method of increasing them; and that Air. Yining may be of the opinion that a liberal policy is not a paying one. Successful financiers could be found who hold a dilfcrent opinion, but the freight agent of the U. P. Ii. R. may feel himself in the position of an autocrat who can a fiord to despise such opinions. opin-ions. Yet it is proper to say that other outlets for the traffic- of the Great l!asin are being discussed, and the surest means the U. P. company could take to aid in building a successful suc-cessful opposition road is by putting the freight tariff up to the highest figures it will bear, and charging all for passenger fares that the necessity of travelers compel them to pay. While the best means to make the line popular, invite tourists to pass over it in thousands, increase the freight traffic, and add to the importance import-ance of the road, is to put the freight tarifl'and passenger rates down to the lowest paying figures. The change in the freight tariff may be summarized thus: A change in the specification of goods, raising the class of many articles; and the ! following advance on class r.'tes: t". 1'. K. K., between Omaha and Ouden First class advanced from s2."Jo to -'h per l't lbs: second class, from si. SO to s.oO: third class, from ; sl.."0 to S-'.."0; fourth class, from Sl.-1 Sl.-1 -Jit to ST.."0. i C. P. II- between San Francisco Francis-co and Ogdeu first class, advanced, from M.SA to S-.7-", per 100 lls:. sec-end sec-end chiss. from sl.tlO to sihMO; third. cW, from si. 40 to Sl.S: fourth j class, from Si. 10 to Si. 40. ! This is a heavy advance, and. if it : does not speedily atlect the freight trarVic over both roacs we shall be surprised. Meantime we would sug- : gest that the representatives of both companies reconsider tlieir dccUion, which we V.iew will not help their respective lines, and will, beyond ntKs'.ion, be keenly felt all through ; tiiis iuUTior region. ' |