Show A SALT the has ha suggested of late tho the formation ot of a local syndicate to control all the salt produced on tho the eastern and northeastern shores ol 01 the lake such an association would bo be able to dictate reasonable tenne terms ins instead ead of leaving ho the producer at tho the mercy merry of a soulless Boul lesa corporation the salt question holds two grievances one of tho the producer and one of the consumer tho the price of salt is too low in ogden and too high in butte the utah northern ia is the connecting link and it gets the exorbitant sum of per ton tor for malting making lie file connection it ie is high timo time that something should be done to remedy existing evils 0 butte and abe rail way ought to be equally interested cil in a continuance of the traffic on just terms tf tho managers of tho the utah A northern do not now appreciate this fact they may easily be brought to a recognition of it by an united assault from this city and tho the mining town butte fired her first gun the other day when hen the alice mills were shut down if ogdon ogden salt men will speak as boldly a satisfactory conclusion can soon bo be readied reached let the junction city salt suit syndicate be formed forme dand and the price of that commo city fixed at or 14 4 per ton delivered on the cars at ogden or stations n north 0 rth of this point then let he the mills of tho the north refuse to pay more than ts 3 to 10 gross for the salt at the butte O 0 elation tation or other points of delivery on the utah A northern line it is a plain certainty that tho the railway company will in time maico make the necessary concessions s without salt the butte mills cant ca ailt run without the mills in active operation many of th the mines loust lie idle we without either mills mill or mines tho the laboring classes tho eolo sole support of the th town will mill bo impoverished without money in circulation butto cant live and finally without a 11 good lively butte the railroad in must alt roon soon succumb if the lie railway managers imagine that th t the time is not ripe for action let th them cm peruse FO ruse the the butto butte inar of last friday in tho the past ten years the alice company lias has prod produced aced about si this amount u denlis lends labor tabor received its just reward and the railroad got most of the balance within the same period ot of time tho the lexington and SI oulton have together produced about of thia this amount the stock the former hecei ed the last dividend being paid in 1855 1885 while those of the latter received the remainder of the approximate imatO amount of went for expenses the railroads getting the lions hons share for many yeats ears them companies paid 30 per ton for salt and top prices on all other classes cl ases of freight had they ben been located in colorado here where railroad rates are low fully one third of the product of these alies mines would mould hae have gone to the stockholders instead of less than thin one tenth and a mighty boom would have struck the camp in in w which they were w worked but bof so with butte Bute the union pacific people instead of helping the district by imposing fair rates of freight hae have exacted every cent which the mining hero here could possibly pay they have out sh locked shylock in the unrelenting demand they have made mado for their pound of flesh and now they e to go so tar far as to permit one of the largest silver mills in the territory to close rather than abate one jot of their exactions but they have not yet et sucked the orange and the people of butte have it in their power to make it ery very interesting for these lm im perlous railroad magnates by a pimple simple resolution to ship their goods over theor thern pacific our hardware and grocery merchants the dry good goods men and the produce dealers are all interested in this matter and we imagine that it if the merchants of butte and members of the board of trado trade will meet and talk the matter over aeran an arrangement can be made which will not bo be without imme mediate effect on the omalia officials it takes a dozen trains every day to transact the business neof ot butte now it is is just aa as cheap to ship stoves from chicago or st louis over the northern as over the union pacific minneapolis flour is quite as good as the nebraska product oats andray and hay raised in Oregon vali 11 taste just as good to our quartz teams as though they are shipped up from utah coke that comes by way of st paul from will burn bum just as long iong as though it is shipped via oma omalia ha amion whon our people go cast east they will make the same timo time and have equal accommodations on the northern as on the southern pacific and the tickets w m ill cost them no more in a case of this kind where 0 the main industry of an entire community is attacked without an element of justification wo believe in active measures measures of defense butto butte is too big and too strong stron to bo be bully ragged by a railroad company w inch which owes its ery very existence to the people it surely owes them some courtesy and consideration and where these are withheld i retaliation is is justified with w ithie u proper and legal bounds |