Show BUSINESS OF or THE UTAH CENTRAL IX saturdays NEWS appeared a statement of the freight business done by the tile utah central nall Rail railroad roal during the last three years As a very large proportion of the freight consists oft of things linZs going out of or comin coming glato into the territory the statement will give a tolerable idea of the amount of imports and exports of that part of utah lying alyin south of ogden especially the more central portions of t tile tire lie lle territory and also partially incle ling the pioche part of nevada although of or late pioche has been largely supplied from the central pacific railroad rall Bail road and through the tile central part of that state we theredore therefore may use the tile terms import and export in tills this article for freight brought in and freight sent out of this tills city the tilo import business for the year 1872 in it several particulars exceed ed that of 1873 although 0 the total of that of the latter year exceeded of former while the total ta inward luward freight of 1871 was over tons that for 1872 was nearly ne arly ariy double or over tons and that for 1873 was waa over tons or about one fialli more than that of or 1872 and nearly two and a half times that of 1871 coming to detail the building material imported in 1873 1872 was double the tho num berof tons of eliat in 1873 tile imports of lumber were nearly equal for each year juar that for 1872 1873 preponderating about one thirteenth over each of the other two years sears the importation of live stock for the tile last two years was about equal and each of those tb years neady double that of 1871 rile the importation of fuel that ia is coal coke charcoal and wood amounted to nearly 61 1000 tons f nor for or 1873 1173 nearly double that of 1872 and nearly four times that of 1871 the tile produce imported in 1872 1873 was nearly double that of 1871 and nearly a seventh more than that of 1873 A few more wagons were imported in 1873 than in it 1872 and about a fifth more than in 1871 railroad material imported was about a fifth more in 1871 than in either cither of the two succeeding years that for 1873 was a little in excess of that for 1872 the produce imported during 1871 was somewhat less than half of that during 18 1872 and a third less than that during 1873 1823 the machinery brought brou glit in III e each acl ael year has lias not varied much in weight tho the merchandize merchandise dize imported in 1871 was upward upwards i of a third less than that in 1872 and that in about one ninth moie mole than that in 1873 tile the hard times timen of tile the latter part of last year may be sup supposed posed sufficient clent elent to account for this h falling below the figures 0 of 1872 the tile total exports in 1871 were about two ninth less thau than in 1872 and those in fit 1873 were one oile third more than those in 1872 the merchandize merchandise dize exported varied little one year from another but showed a slight steady increase wool and hides to the tho extent of half halt a thousand tons left this city during the three years most likely to go E east ast last year being boing rather the heaviest the ore sent away was an all eleventh less jess in 1872 than 1871 but a sixth more in 18 1873 13 than in 1872 the export of c rude crude bullion in 1872 was dearly nearly quadruple that in 1871 but only about two thirds of that in 1873 the produce produce sent out in 1872 was only half that in 1871 and nota fifth of that in 1873 3 of or lead more than 2600 tons were exported in 1873 upon the whole we consider this tills a very favorable showing for the territory there is one particular however which is not so favorable and to which we desire to call attention tons are not necessarily equivalent to values but it is a noticeable fact that the total exports for the three years are not one furth fourth those of tiie tile imports if the tile respective values of each show a similar disparity a change must come or the prosperity of the tile territory may soon bo be under a very dark cloud i |