| Show F EPHRAIM TALKS ABOUT RAILROAD RATES AND OTHER MATTERS IN THE SAME connection editor aels As the arab folds his tent and glides silently away so the surveyors camps bamps of the C a 8 L railway hailway or S P V railway have left us ns leaving the eyl evl dence ot ol a grade only to have been here when the good people of the cities south of moroni shall shail see the smoke of the advancing locomotive Is ie very much in the dim future the advent of the gentlemen connected edwith with the S P V railway ll allway ailway and the U C railway hallway among our business men made a nutter flutter on achan change e 11 there was a presentment of an ag agreement beemen tty tip to ship by the lines freely handed banded the freighters for their respective signatures binding them for one year to ship both ways by these lines at 45 cents per er hundred pounds except braini grain biake alake bdour flour our and lumber from sanpete to sa salt sait lake which are to be 20 cents per lbs ibs in carload carioad car sar load lots the party odthe of the second part agrees not to include in his shipments grain or merchandise belonging to other parties without the knowledge and consent of the parties of the first part the railways in the good cily city of eph ralma raima alone are some hundreds of lot good fat teams which it Is prescribed to relegate to the feed and care for in the winter and this avenue of gains must be closed and the cash must be forthcoming to pay the rail rafi railways ways while the said fat teams and good teamsters who would gladly work for tor these selfsame figures I 1 p payable a abie able in nise aise must ibe idle Ms this Is the economy of the accamo dating railroad prescribed by a corporation to tha the masses and they say to these masses accept our tem terms s a and nd S sign le 0 o tha ma effect or we will charge you 75 cents par derloo 1 00 lbs ibs nor is this all that Is asked of ae the dear people by tho thes P V railway they insist on passing up on the east side of main maln street a county highway with their road for lor while if 14 is a street of a city it is also a county road the law prescribes that the county shall have one county road upon which no locomotive cau can run this street highway Is sanpete county countes coun tys lii main artery on this said street are three e e schoolhouses school houses ho uses the meetinghouse u 1 and bustle bustie of a city and county counci this is raili ralli railway yay say economy no purchase of tho thio right rl ht oi of way A prospective stampede atour at our quarterly conference conference when the screech of the iron horse Is heard perhaps buringa du ninga ringa a summer A man may dedicate his land in a county road for ordinary travel but the nuisance of a railway in your dooryard door yard is quite another thing it has come to this that railways are coercive in their thein demands aud and policy and the people pay fay dearly fon for the privilege of ui f and ciui riding ni diug and anu at ai the me figures indicated it is impossible for the San oan peter to compete with nearer places to salt lake the road as it is now Is a vexation a snare a delusion it is neither one thing nor the other yet it must be kept moving movin by an even though the only onvy passenger car runs empty and freight Is meagre incurring a monthly deficit rather than ian run cheaper if the great product wheat in this county could be concentrated in some hands terms could be asked and nad had i it is because we are diff diffused used we are at the mercy of men who say choose yc te this day 45 or 75 cents per pounds from which we will not depart but supposing the farmer and merchant combined how long before modifications and compromises would be heard in the land especially if one ohie party artys showed owed a monthly deficit in run ning expenses isil 1811 MAEL AMONG aifong TIM ephraim p ral rai nov 1884 |
