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Show mileage In the respective states and the coat In both Utah and Colorado on a ! ten -gallon can of cream are presented, j Mllea In Utah Coat In Coat In 4 and Colorado Utah Colorado M II j 7& ' ' 7 , ' 100 41 l I 1M 45 4 ' 00 4 it " tOO 44 Thla clearly ahowa that Utah should ' have a reduction In freight charcea on dairy produce. 4 Some Idea of the raat bualneaa that la transacted In thla suite In the dairy produce la found In the operations of j the Mutual Creamery company. Ac-; cording to C. J. Christiansen, traffic manager, the company last year shipped 4.102.170 pounds of butter. I.27S.t pounds of cheese. -64,U ; pounds of poultry. 1.451.46 dosen eggs and S.6.4&? gallona of Ice cream. j The company operates on a large scale In the West. It hae branches at Grand Junction, Cola: Duchesne, g-, den and Halt Lake. Utah: Poeatello and Boise. Ida.; Butte and Lewiston, Mont.; Seattje, Wash.: !'-rtland and Baker, Ore., and Reno, Nev. The company has about fifteen smaller branches besides be-sides in the same localities. i Mr. Christiansen said that the com pany. In common with other shippers ' of dairy produce, could not compete with Colorado consigners in the Kaat- : ern market, and there would have to 1 be an adjustment If Utah la to get i fair play so as to expand Its trede 1 territory and gain wealth which should 1 be brought here. Mr. Christiansen said that both the producer and consumer in Utah are : suffering and that the dairy produce ; business is being conducted under a ! severe handicap imposed by the rail- ; roads, which for years have prevented ' this state competing on an equitable ; -basis with Colorado and other atates. i I i MORELAIITUDE ' FOR RUTHLESS ROBBERIES 0 Merciless Exactions From Utahns Shawn in Com-' Com-' parative Table; Citizens ? Pay Corpora"011" Tribute i " By E. J. David TTSINO unfair freight rates as 1 VJ a weapon to lash the people of thin tate into aubjeetion, the ' railroads operating in and through i-iUtah have made a decided gueeess. The have extorted money from the populace on the altar of avarice, their I Jreed In thla state eclipsing that which H, prevails and la exercised In other I ft atatas. One might think that necessities of We would he spared by the railroads. hut the transportation corporations give little In comparison for what they receive. At the present time there is nothing leia than a tax Imposed upon the conveyance of foodstuffs by the ." railroads In this state. , Railroad officials refuse to he conscience con-science stricken. They know that the rates here are the highest In the country coun-try and they provide no relief. For years the people have suffered, and the railroads sre now attempting to foist X other burdena upon them In the form ' of a 15 per cent Increase In rates. Thanks to the traffic service hu-reau hu-reau of I'tah. the people are beginning , to realise the uniust and dlscrimlna- ' tory attitude of the railroads. Thev are commencing to rise in protest, and the sooner s determined . battle is waged to wrest from the railroads the areat wealth which Is being, taken ' from here the belter. This In no time for the handling of the situation with kid gloves. This is the time for concerted con-certed action to prevent the railroads owning the slnle of Utah. UTAH SUFFERS MOST. A prewnt th" raHro"1 arc taklnjr n-mr mnpy from hrrf thnn from uny other utato on a nro rata haain of population pop-ulation and trafft mnvnl. , Thr Ik no an fn.allowinr th railroads to Continue their nlratlcal nwav. When the railroad operating here ara ronterrt to.arah the wenlth of the people at the exucn?:e of rurtalttnf? the ' neceeaitlen of life. belna always remembered re-membered thit the confi'mer hm eventtnlly to pay for everythln. It la i 0 hich lime lo fru1rate nrtlon neekinc l to train more of the nubile' eoin. Any .'dvnrne In rate on fnodntuffn mnt be foupht to th hilt. The rot of Ilvlnr VTi.1-- pnonethe too hith. and the people I cannot stand furfh-r lncreanp. To (how how tb people of thla atate' r forced o mffer thrnnprh diarrlml-I diarrlml-I t n-rori' tariff, comnarlaona are mad of frtht ratep In thla atnte on creim wlh th ratra'on the product In Colorado Colo-rado Pairv prduce la nlready unduly Taxfi b'- the railroads with extensive . freijrht chree nnd a further Increase cannot and will not be endured.. Cream and d.'itrv produce generally and other perl?hahl a-ooda are can-t can-t veyed bv expraa. The rail road a might ear that they cannot be held reaponal-hle reaponal-hle for the charge, but it la a welt known fact that they cooperate with the expreaa companies and receive a k areat nrt of their revenue. In fact. aome of the exnreaa companies are part and parcel of the bla; railroad ay at em a. FIGURES SHOW DISCRIMINATION. The fol lowing table shows the discrimination dis-crimination prevailing here when the rates In Cnlnr.ido are considered. The |
