Show WHEATAND FLOUR RATE Rate of 52 Cent on Polouso Products Effective Today Will Help the Railroads The new rate of fiftytwo dents a hundred on flour and wheat from the Palousc country goes Into effect to nand n-and will have the effect of advancing tie cost ot Imported wheat at once from seventynine cents to eightyfive cents a bushel In anticipation of this the local millers have been shipping In he grain as fast as they could durIng dur-Ing the past two weeks while commission com-mission men havo been equally active In Importing the Oregon flour In all probability the price of the latter commodity com-modity will be advanced in a very short lme The new rte was given It Is I understood under-stood at the earnest insistence of the nlllers and was designed for their lenaure and glory and profit at least that Is what they claim But It is dlf Icult to understand how the millers oran or-an on else Is going to reap any benefit ben-efit from the change With flour and wheal tariffs on an equality Just as they were under the fortycent rate the millers will bo no more free from the competition of Oregon millers than hey were two weeks ago As soon w tho wheat they now have on hand Is consumed they will be In the same Kjsltlon in which they always have been The only apparent result will be that the railroads will get six cents more a bushel for hauling the grain which the public will in the end have to pay I Is estimated that not less than 00000 bushels of wheat have been hipped In from Oregon and WashIngton WashIng-ton since December iBtwhen the forty cent rate was first secured For this an average price of fifty cents a bushel bush-el was paid making 100000 cash which was sent out of the State to buy bread I Jpon this wheat a freight tariff of twentyfour cents a bushel was paid making 48000 additional outlay from the pockets of Utah people Last fall when the local crop was harvested a large amount of the wheat was sold for forty cents a bushel and shipped to Colorado points The amount is Variously estimated at from 100000 to 160000 bushels Assuming the latter figure to be correct the railroads picked up nearly 510000 on the transfer trans-fer erThis last sum while It did not come directly from Utah pockets might have been placed there If the wheat lad been held and sold a few months later at home I will thus appear that nearly 100000 ha been donated to the railroad companies for their service In hauling wheat out of the State and hen hauling It back again and this sum will be vastly augmented before the next crop Is ready for the harvest Tho average citizen who has nothing noth-Ing to do with the flour trade except to go to the grocer occasionally and my whatever Is asked for 0 sack of four congratulating himself that It Is no more may be excused for wonder lag why the wheat the Utah farmer IR not kept at home and ground by the Utah miller instead of being sent away expense and then returned at grievous |