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Show RAILROADS POUR , miym utah Six Million Dollars Expended by One Company During This Year. Hi FOUR MILLION OF THIS I IS PAID OUT IN WAGES H One-Third of a Million Is Paid Info the State in Taxes. IH A regiment of soldiers consists o II SS7 enlisted men nnd 61 officers SSS H men in Should n regiment of sol- M diers parado the streets of Salt Lnke, Iu tlie Tweuly-ninth infantry stationed at II Port Douglas, for instance, it would be H a most imposing parado and would at- H tract thousands of people along the lino U of march. These men comprise a part M of the army for war Uncle Sam's boys. B Suppose you were told that a cor- 3 poration doing business in Utah could, II jf it were necessary, turn out iu a par- ! ado five regiments of men, whoso vocation is that of peace; that I from one department, or this cor poration in the city of Salt Lake that a regiment could be mustcrpd, you would be incredulous and gaze at your informant with curiosit.y, to say the least. But it would be true. Suppose 3'ou were told that this corporation cor-poration employed 4120 men in the stale wherein you live, and that it paid those men, composing this groat army which pursue a peaceful vocation, $33,- ! 000 every month in wages, almost four million dollars every year, the bulk or which is spent in Salt Lake City, von would still be incredulous and question the verncity of your informant. But , I the statement would bo true. ! Improvement in Salt Lake. j Suppose the person who was iinpart- H I ing this information should tell you S ( that this corporation, without any flour- H j ish of trumpets, without asking any aid PS j from you, would this year spend, in ad- H dition to tho four millions, an addi- Bfl 5 tionnl million dollars, and that this sum H I would be expended for improvement in PS J Salt Lake City alone, you would still PS J bo incredulous, and you might conclude PS that your informant was going daft. Pfl Suppose, again, that you were told Pfl that in nddition to tho four million dol- PH Jars paid out annually in wages, that Pfl over two million dollar's more are paid PS annually for supplies in Utah, or $170,- Pfl 000 per month, would you coutiuuo to Pfl '1 bo incredulous? ' PflU Suppose still further that, in addi- PSU tion to these expenditures already cited, pfli this informant made tho statement pfl that beginning this year there would Pfl op started a plant by this corporation, Pfl which will be finished next year, the Bfl first appropriation forwhich is ono and pfl n half million dollars, and which will pfl employ 1500 men. would you still bo Pfl of tho opinion that your informant PH should bo sent to an asylum? Salt Lake County Benefited. And, still supposing, should this in-pal in-pal formnnt of yours tell you that this cor- PP poration has within the last year and PS a half expended, in addition to all the PP above, one and a half million dollars more in Salt Lake county, outside of PP Salt Lake City, to aid in the carrying PS on of its groat business, would you edge Pa -nvay from this informant, believing BP ii.ii he was wild? If this informant of yours, after "ilinu vou all this, should continue and l!i:it an allied corporation of the P U" to which he has been referring, v.hii-h iu reality is the same one, . n;!d this voar conclude the expendi- ; iiro of fi'tv-five millions of dollars in ' P i:rder that it might have a steel high- P -vav to oarrv its traffic from Salt Lake 5o the Pacific coast, and that in the rrv traction of this great highway Salt vil-e lcvunu the central point for this . -iv.it corporation, would you pick up 'U' thing within reac'n to brain your in-'I'jinaut, in-'I'jinaut, confident that he was not only ,-;iKl but more than wild? p What Bio Grande Docs. Rut all this is true and more, and Jhis is what the Denver & Kio Grande -a; i road is doing for Utah and for Salt mUo. Iu addition to all this; it is spending this year a large sum in bet-;vrmcnts bet-;vrmcnts for the road in the state. P In a statement printed in The Trib al une Thursday morning there was Eoinc- intorcsling data pertaining to the great niilwav systems which center in Salt Lake. " Those figures showed the re-ceipts re-ceipts from all sources, as also the ex-P ex-P penscs and the net earnings for tho month of March and also for nine months of the fiscal .year ended March 31. In the itoms of expense that of taxes was not included. Hj The Denver & Rio Grande railroad is a very heavy taxpayer in Utah. The P valuation of all property in the state for the purposes of taxation is, in round numbers, about $165,000,000. One-sixteenth One-sixteenth of the entire amount paid in t-nxes in the State is paid by tho Den-yer Den-yer & Rio Grande Railroad company, or $325,000 per annum. This amount is in addition to the other expend!. ture8 cited. This year the Denver & Rio Grande Railrnnd company is doing j this for Utah is expending tho follow- j Waxes paid employees.., .$3,060,000 In now Lennlnuls 1,000,000 P Fcttermcnts, Salt Lako county.. 400,000 Taxes 325,000 Total $5,685,000 Now Shops to Be Built. Work on the new shops to be used bv the Denver & Rio Grande and the Western Pacific will begin this 3'ear and will bo. completed next year. For these shops one million and a half dol-iars dol-iars has been appropriated, but when the plnnt is finally completed the amount will largely exceed this and cm-ployment cm-ployment will be given to 1500 men. Iu other words, for oven mile of track f tho Denver it Rio Grande rnilroad iu Utah, there will be expended during this yr-ar $9200, or as much money as the gross revenue received in the stato by the company will be "All this, of course. 5h to provide for the increased business when the West-orn West-orn Pacific is placed in commission, which will be about November 1, when the volume of freight traffic will be largely increased. Movement of Freight. Hfl As to shipments of freight from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, about Hl "0 per cent now goes around the Horn. Hl This includes tho heavier stuff like fur- Hj niture, pianos, iron and steel products, Of tlin other SO per cent thcro is a Jl contest between the great railwa3r hvs- terns of tho county, and when the Western Pacific is completed another j tianscontincutal line will demand and fight for its slmro of this 80 per cent. Again,-tho railroad.s' across the cou'n-'--v- do not move all of this 80 nor cent of freight originating on tho Atlantic seaboard. There is a heavy percentage of this that is carried by water routes from Now York and Boston and Philadelphia Phila-delphia via Now Orleans nnd Galveston and tho Isthmus oft Panamn. Pprlmps 25 por cent of freight, originating in the cast, dostinod for Salt Lake, comes via New Orleans and Galveston, and thenco by rail to Salt Lako. Considerable Consid-erable of" this freight originates as far in the interior as Buffalo, and is then hauled east by rail to New York, transshipped trans-shipped thoro by water and then from New Orleans and Galveston by rail to this city. And this also applies to a number of Idnno points. The building of the Pannnin canal is a largo, factor in the railroad world now. When it is completed it will give Pacific coast points n still further advantage ad-vantage over interior points like Salt Lake, Denver and Spokane. The railroads rail-roads propose to have their sharo of the business, and to tliat end, without waiting for the completion of tho canal, will take ndvnntngo of the situation now, and will revise tariff shoots. Rates to Be Lowered. Tho Tribune does not betray any confidences con-fidences when it says that rales to Salt Lako will be reduced in the very nenr future. The revised schedules are not only well under way, but arc practically practical-ly 'completed, and announcement will soon bo made. It is a knowledge of this fact that hns stirred up the Pacific coast cities to make a harder fight than over to maintain tho. present rates,, and iu this connection it might be said that in the battle waged by Salt Lako, as also other interior cities, for a lower rate on freights, the real foe was not in tho open. It haR boon tho jobbing points upon the Pacific const. Pacific Ooast rights Utah. San Prancisco. Seattle, Portland nnd Tacoma have always the water route as a club over the railroads to prevent any reduction in rates to the interior, for the reason that such reduction would build up other jobbing centers liko Salt Lake, and would therefore restrict tho territory which they have always claimed as 'their own, and in view that 95 per cent of the westbound traffic moves or is carried under sea competitive terminal, commodity rates those cities have been able to prevent any reduction of rates to interior cities. These Pacific const points have been the rcnl onemy in tho field, the real foe. Chambers of Commcrco fn those cities are now, iu view of the Spokane rate decision, making every effort to prevent the railroads from making tho reduction which has, as said, about been ngrcod upon. While the railroad rates in this groat western empire havo been high, perhaps in view of facts here given they havo really not been the enemy of the people. The figures regarding whnt Utah, what Salt. Lake, receives in a dollars-aud-cents way from the Denver & Rio Grande railwaj' disclose this fact. |
