Show UT UTAH AU MILLER CONFINED TO HOME MARKET MARKEl Unjust Freight Rates Prevent Prevent Pre Pre- vent Milling Concerns Extending Business RAILROADS CAUSE GAUSE OF THIS IBIS Adjust Their Rates So That Outside Companies Can Undersell Utah Millers rs at Home SOME EXAMPLES OF THIS Utah's Flour Industry Should Industry Vie With Any in the World World I Prevented Prevent d from extending extending extending extend extend- extend extend- ing their business on account of unfair of-unfair unfair and unjust freight rates Utah milling companies com com- panics are axe up in arms against the railroads With V just freight tariffs on wheat and flour Utah could build buildup buildup up a flour industry that would vie with any in the world Prohibitive freight rates however compel the Utah miller to sell Ms his l s product pro- pro product product duct at home He can not extend his business because the railroads have so de de- creed They have adjusted their freight rates so that California and Colorado milling companies can undersell the t. t ti c Utah Ut h. h miners millers mille s in ju What hat l' l territory And in jn- spite pit o of ff those glaring and nd undisputed undisputed undisputed I facts yet the railroads I boast of making the milling industry a success in jn Utah f I With WHim WJ just freight rates thou flour milled In n Utah from rom Utah wheat would be ho In n every California la hana hamlet t and city Because of or the unjust tariffs nour four marJ made r from Crom Utah Claim wheat is Js used there but the flour is milled In California To bo be bomor bemore more mor plain the freight rates permit California millers miller to bu buy Utah wheat hent havo hao it shipped tp to tl California they mill it Jt at a n cost of ot 11 Hi IIi cents less Ie lo s than timan It can car be milled and sent there by Itah millers whose plants aro are only a few miles from the time center of ot th th wheat country Utah wheat can b be shipped from rOIn Utah tho practical c cent center of th the wheat growing section to Lou Los Lo Angeles Ca Cal at a freight ht rat rate of 49 D cents centa a hundred pounds To ship flour from Salt Lake to Los Loa Angeles s. s Utah millers must pa pay 61 cents or lU cents cent more per hundred pounds than timan the milled product costs the California miller who buys bU his wheat In Utah The Utah miller demands only equity Ho lIe does docs not demand n a hen heavy cut in the tha rate rat on flour but he does demand that the tho rate rato on wheat be bo made time the same amne Rm as time tho rate on flour That will nl give tho Utah miller an aim opportunity to extend t his business to other localities reached h by Ion long hauls as General Frel Freight ht Agent J. J A A. Reeves hooves put it It- The wheat grows In Utah and should bo ho milled d by br homo home millers It Is declared declare As s lone Ions as the railroad companies ship wheat ut ut of the state cheaper than they will M ship flour the milling Industry will remain re- re main at a standstill Head what Mr Ir Beeves of ot the th Oregon Short Line Lino had to sa say in his wonderful literary concoction published in Th The Tha a a. R ort time ago In defense defens of ot freight tariffs but Say Flour milling industries are clear cUI Utah Utai and Idaho whoso whose output output out out- put H seeks sf-eks eks a a. consumption not locally only but in centers reached on long long- hauls and at nt rates which it has b been on found necessary sary to reduce repeatedly with in ln privileges which have havo been established and which are are r continually being extended d in order to facilitate their business wrote 1 Mr r. r B Reeve coves Unwittingly tho the literary freight n ncr emit nt told the truth only too forcibly when he ime stated that tho the output seeks loeks consumption not locally only but in centers reached on lon long hauls Th The r word see seeks becks Its is the strongest tine Uno In tho the sentence Mr fr Reeves spoke of or tho the In ln transit privileges It Is true that the th privilege permits Salt itt Lake Lale millers to toot got get ot a somewhat lower rate on flour than thOY they would get et etI by I paying trio tho straight freight eight rate But Just carry the tho question un ou to Denver and wIll It-wIll bo discovered that tho the Denver millers get bet a transit in privilege e free froc while the tho Utah miller mU must t pa pay 2 cents a hundred pounds for it wheat Is 11 hauled to Denver Denvor by the tho railroads for fOI s 3 i cents a hundred hun hun- I tired dred with In In transit 1 free It costs time tho Utah ta h millet miller 40 cents a 3 hundred to ship ehll flour flom to time the same place and In addition he must pay 2 cents for a ln transIt l I loge lege c. c That Thal makes malc's the freight ht rite rate 7 r cents centa more on flour than the cost coat o of ot Continued on in Pa IK c S. S S UTAH MILLER CONFINED TO HOME MARKET d from tine Hue wheat Under such conditions the Utah millers nevor never hope to got get much of ot their product Into Denver Donver territory D Because of ot the rate rote Denver flour frequently caches Utah Uth points to compete with he tho home milled d product Millions of ot bushels of or wheat are raised In Utah each year car The wheat is 18 s In such places that it can reach Utah mills without t trouble or delay I and should be hauled at ot a n. reasonable rate ate Last year two millions of at bushels of or tills this home product was shipped to California and ground into flour Some of this flour was wan aR shipped East and innet lu in net fact t some ome of ot It H entered d the homo home state The Tho rate of 40 10 cents costs on wheat permitted ho tho California millers to reap the tho profits that naturally should have havo been those hose of or the tho Utah millers miller In reality ho tho railroad companies by hy their methods method of tariff making are taking away front from Utah the riches that her er land gives hes ui up And still Mr Reeves declares that the railroads have toted Utah's milling Industries Industry Until frol freight ht rates rate on wheat and flour lour are adjusted on a more equitable abl basis the tho milling Industry In Utah will remain at a standstill The Ut Utah h millera millera mill- mill era ra can send Bend their product neither East Eastnor Eastnor Eastnor nor West Vest eUng from rom other f states that seCure their raw m material from Utah soil solL Thero There Is pleny plen- plen t y of wheat in Utah and ond there thelO would he e plenty of mills to convert it Into flout loui and ship it broadcast if It the railroads railroads rail- rail roads oads would permit Jt to t. The miller millet asks Of only 11 that he bo be protected pro pro- ro- ro und and not Jeopardized H He do does s snot snot not demand that tha l a n. great grent cut be ha made maden In n the tha rate rute on flour U With nth the milling- milling transit In-transit privilege ge it Is 18 not so had bad Ito He Io does docs wish to have the rate on wheat t changed hanged so 30 that outside states could not ot mill Utah wheat and sell Hell it there thero thereat at t a less cost than thon can tho the Utah miller Ho io believes that since the tho raw material in IH H a product of the state that its pro profits til should hould stay here Unit Hoit fur for The local millers are ore not blind to tho the advantage e of the In transit ln rotes rates they are enjoying at the tho present ent time Ume They save o considerable mono money on n each hundred pounds of or flour by this his rate over tho re regular tariff Neither are they blind to the fact that hat tho the railroads have granted the theU U Denver rt er millers a 0 free tree in transit privilege in order that they mIL thit get another r chance to haul the milled product product pro pro- duct back Locle Into the tho West By ny making a cheap rate rato East the railroads give the he Eastern millers a n. bait halt to have them hem ship their flour hack back West Vest The same Is IK true OK as re regards the California rat rates s The railroads consider it good 8 policy to carr carry raw wheat to California C cheap enough to encourage ago age Call California miller to use the same railroads to ship hl the tho milled product back toward vard Utah And Mr Reeves still contends that the railroads are doing much for tor the growth of ot Utah's milling milling- and other in In- In |