| Show freighting OPERATION cooperation CO AND BAND MONEY SAVING can we ive not do obrown our own freighting this is a question which owners of f wagons and teams are asking our merchants and which merchant merchants are asking 0 in hi return it is suggested 0 that the i frei frel freight girt gilt bill of the past s season eason amounting in to about half a million in round numbers might be as ws well saved to the people of the territory in another season we freight from the cast and the west we freight to the north there are hundreds of wa wagons ans through 0 h the territory that could be used for this purpose an abundance of oxen horses and mules that could do the work and yet the frei freight glit of the goods brought here is paid in money to be taken out of the territory when with a mutual understanding der standing between merchants and men who could do frel frei freighting 0 biting it might be profitably spent in the best markets to the benefit of the territory in general elki eiki and those who did the freighting in particular tills this is no longer a hypothesis a theory or speculative uncertainty the sending of teams to the missouri river for the poor saints has demonstrated year after year that teams can be sent from here and return 1 in I 1 n better condition 1 aan dan than those which make inake the tri trl trip p for the first time across the we plains if it it would not pay one man to end one or two or olree three wagons a settlement city or locality might unite together and send what teams they could spare under the charge of an experienced captain with careful and efficient teamsters for the purpose where there is not an individual with elou enough 9 h teams to enter largely into the freighting business alone we have conversed with several of our leading citizens anthe on the subject inc ine including including ludin iudin 0 merchants and all favor this idea an idea which was plainly and pointedly thrown out by the tho president at last conference we hope to see it alfed act ed upon as far as practicable ti the ensuing season and would suggest that it be considered in those settlements best able to take it up and that men from those settlements consult with our commission and heavy purchasing merchants when in the olty city and see if the necessary arranges ments cannot be made to accomplish it in advocating this thi s measure before we have enumerated some of the advantages resulting from it which are so well known that we need not noti repeat them 1 in england andain some parts of the eastern states where keen and continued competition among merchants gives the retail buyer 7 many advantages 0 he could not enjoy where that competitive action is not to be found the principle of operation cooperation co has been employed with marked benefits to those who have entered into it working men and others of limited means unite put their pittances together stock smock a and while that store undersells under sells the regular retail dealers receive a fair percentage of An terest interest on their invested capital however little that may be why e should we not have such operative cooperative co acison action here by putting 0 together what means they could spare for this purpose there ther is nothing to tb hinder the people from becoming their own store owners h av meil mell men in the stores to attend to the business b for them this mean means the profits would directly to the tile people themselves they could corla colia combine bine bino their means and get their purchases made and divide the goods when they were received we have perfectly reliable and shrewd dealing commission merchants us who have made considerable purchases of this kind the past and previous seasons but if the principle exten extended dedin in its operations so that man with only twenty ten or even dollars could send that amount into cheapest market and receive its in such goods as lie might need benefits would be increased this ean can be done on 0 n the sugg suggested ested and which has been tried a limited extent already ready al As a community we are better organized for accomplishing comp lishing a thing of this kind than any other in every settlement men tried and known to be and reliable who could bee bec become ome agents through whom these thesa combined littles could pass to the commission merchant with the orders for goods and the t goods when received could bo be divided divid cd among the owners by themselves we throw out these hints without elaborating thom them believing that thought and reflection will show how they can be advantageously acted acted upon and knotting how hov general the desire Is 19 to be relieved from the exactions made by many merchants in the territory in demanding prices for the goods brought here hete the saving in money noney to the people odthe of the territory would be very considerable annually an and d that very saving saying could thus be cm em aloyed in purchasing a larger quantity of goods more machinery and other like needed things which would the sooner enable us to be more selo self sustain ning than we are at present 0 1 I 1 1 SHOULD WB OT DO IT I 1 every nation or community that imports anything 0 no matter whether it be for fok absolute sustenance or for fr luxury must export in a corresponding ratio or it will become steadily and surely poorer As an illustration britain lays the world under contribution for necessaries and luxuries she brings her spices from the east her wines from the south of europe and south africa much of her silk from france fruits of various kinds from countries that produce them her tea from china grain from the united states and up the mediterranean cotton from the southern portion of the united states india and other countries and a multitude of ether other things from various nations yet she has grown rown enormously rich she has paid for them all by exportations exhortations of coal machinery cutlery cotton and woolen fabrics and omd other manufactures thesis this is commerce As athas it has beeland been and is with britain so it has been and is our own and other oth er nations they have imported I 1 what they did not make raise or produce and they have paid for it with their exports of what they manufactured raised or produced As a community we have had and still have to import largely if a class oilmen oilmen have imported for us who had no other object in view but to trade and lepome become rich necessities we have been beep so much tn tile more foolish for allowing them to do it when we ive could have had it otherwise by doing it ourselves or doing 0 without many things until we could import theu ourselves dur selves what have been the counterbalancing exports ports ponts produce grain vegetables to tb a very limited extent fruit and the products of the dairy and hennery our population is i s rapidly increasing and tho the wants which these importations supply are increasing with the population are our exeor exports Ls or th the e articles we are in a position to export increasing in i proportion and likely bogrow to grow as fast as the demand deman d for those things s that are now non imported unless we can supply that demand or a portion of it within ourselves or produce or manufacture some other article of commerce these are grave questions for oun our commercial and financial prosperity depend not upon the tile answers but upon the facts embodied in iii them the necessity of our lessening the number of art articles ples gies which we now import has been urged upon this community for years in advocating home manufactures instead of being importers of manufactured tiered goods we should be exporters we have people here practically acquainted with almost every kind of manufactures that are carried on extensively elsewhere all we lack is machinery skilled labor we possess we can raise the sheep and grow the wool wooi for woolen manufactures we can grow the cotton and silk we have the iron breand ore and coal becan we ean can raise the tea and tobacco for those who will us use uso them ethem our markets for produce are at the same time widening and narrowing 0 the markets are widening in extent and demand but they are narrowing for us for other places are making efforts to supply that demand flour flouris is freighted from the states to montana and other mining regions and brings a higher price than flour taken from this territory so it will be with other articles of sustenance other places will make efforts to supply the demand and secure the gold Is it not evident that we must in our importations endeavor to bring on machinery much more largely than heretofore that we must contrive to meet our own onn growing demands and grow into supplying oui our our neighboring markets with other things than produce we put it to the good sense and reflection of our capitalists and the people generally another thing would it not be the wisest course to sell our own importations in the markets elo ero to which they are carried earned to seek seik out re hablo reliable houses louses of consignment consign mant mont when the tho owner cannot wait an opportunity to dispose of his produce to ad advantage vantage and with paying c the ordinary percentage per on consign ments pocket the net proceeds i i anstead of letting that produce pass through the hands of speculators and too keen traders at last quotations salt lake flour was selling from 23 to 1 sa s1 I wholesale 98 08 ib sack in virginia cit city montana and that in coin farmers earme rs and owners of pro produce duie duee figure it up see what you get in store pay charged you at over or about one hundred percent per pen cent profit for your wheat and flour from men who would not buy a pound of it when scarcity made it high priced add the freight to montana Mont antu and other places and ask yourselves if it pays you to let I 1 it go for the paltry price you receive receive in in the pay y you ou get while you could handle ehe fhe he it yourselves that gold you could gould send east cast and west buy goods and machinery and enrich yourselves and the territory where you are aie now enriching those who wiio care nothing for you if one man could not make a load of flour to send into these cash paying C markets two might ora or a settle settie ment might make up a small train again we say think of it 1 l will bear reflection E COLORADO navigation he he importance of the route rout e to the pacific coast bythe by the colorado river has been widely agitated here its practicability has had many believers and its opening been desired by the people of this territory for this purpose the settlement of callville Call ville was formed as a kind of halfway half way house between this city and san sali fransisco and much interest has been man manifested infested in the enterprise by our most influential citizens siti zens undertakings of this kind are only prosecuted to a successful insua by per sistena energy and indicative ai of that energy we see that the matter is about to be practically tested by the pacific and colorado steamship company who advertise advert ize in the present number of the NEWS the establishment of a regular dispatch line of vessels from san fransisco to the tile mouth of the colorado there to connect with avith a couple of steamers the ESMERALDA and NINA nixa TILDEN which they purpose running from tha that point to callville Call ville the company through their secretary cre tary RC eldredge state that they have made the river navigable asfar as callville Call ville and have prepared thesis these steamers at a large outlay and that they will guarantee to deliver freight at callville Call ville with certainty and dispatch A sufficiently satisfactory guarantee with the rate of freighting placed at a reasonably low figure would linquest unquestionably 1 i lead our business men to use 11 the new route for bringing goods to j this h territory even with the strong inducements andule that are being held out from I 1 the east to continue and increase their trade from thence by the overland route leeross laross the plains the danger and uncertainty on the plains the difficulties that are continually arising through h indian disturbances and the fact that teaming can be done from callville Call cail ville part of the way north all through the winter give the opening up of the colorado an importance which under other circumstances it would not have the grow ing trade with utah Is is desired by influential fluent ial lal merchants both east and west and it is to our interest to avail ourselves of every facility that may be offered ommer offer bd td for supplying our demands in cheapest and ad most expeditious way we have heard it stated that some san fransisco merchants were about to forward goods for utah by the colorado and send the invoices to this ci city eity tydor fon for sale saie on the arrival of the freight at aft call ville this would restore th the waning i confidence of some here who were most sanguino aguiao sa 0 concerning ahe the ophni opening ny of that river and we have men of capital and enterprise who are sufficiently anxious to bring the centre of utah into I 1 I 1 more direct and speedy communization with the great marts of trade to meet part way any ady effort that may be made to aee ace accomplish this object J |
