Show ANOTHER RAILWAY WANTED 0 oden den needs another railway to th the north such a road would bo be among tho the best investments in that class of property to be found in the west at present local shippers are confined to one lino line which charges all the traffic will bear and sometimes a good deal more in addition to much through freight from eastern and western points this line lias has a monopoly of the coal coil ana salt trades not a email small item when one null mill alone consumes worth of eilt salt annually of which amount the railway receives the astounding proportion of or more the strange of this one line into the north apparently ie is to bleed but not build up the country through which it passes and in which it terminates n ates if a private privat 3 individual pursued such a R fool system in liis his business affairs as this railway pursues toward its tributary ic region ion his friends would quickly bring him before a commission of lunacy judging byrhe procedure of the utah and northern company its desiro desire is not only to keep new settlers and new now business away from montana Alon tana and idaho but to drive away those that aro are already there one single instance va will ill suffice to show the murderous and suicidal policy of this company it bought salt at or near ogdon ogden for two vaci dollars per ton on the cars it sold that same salt in butto butte at fifteen dollars per ton on the cars netting for freight alone thirteen dollars per ton eutte butte consumed vast quantities of salt in working up iier ber low grade ores 1 bich were the maintenance of thousands ol 01 miners directly and more thousands of merchants artisans and farmere farmers indirectly the consumption of this salt meant millions of dollars to tho tile railway for freight on other commodities purchased with tile bullion which utah salt fluxed gazed from montana mountains at last there came a day when the mine and mill owners eaid said to the company you must give us a better rate or our works will necessarily close down you havo had aletho all the profit for some time past pasit and now we are at a point when i wo 0 must give you not only all tho prost profit bat but a bonus for accepting it tho the radway railway magnates merely said i we see the justice of your claim we will charge you only twelve dollar a ton freight on salt instead of thirteen dollar thus giving you a chance to run a little longer for our benefit after this one mill closed down dow n and people were nt at once directly deprived of main maintenance t cenance th the 0 disaster will be even oven more widespread it will mill quickly affect every ind industry uldry and every branch of trade and still the utah 4 northern holds its it selfish grip on much ot of idaho and lion montana tana another road with ith a liberal policy while opening up much new country and developing some of the richest mineral and agricultural lands in the west would also be able to pet get a large proportion of the present business population with all its attendant benefits would follow the tile now road ro ail in a con constant fi tream general palmer ought to have his eye on that project 1 the U D it G W is the road of all roads to reach out where here men eland stand anxious towel to welcome it into the rich wood river region and other parts this would doubly help the D R G W at present many ogden merchants who would gladly bring their goods from tile lie east via tho the little giant are obliged to ship entirely by the U P otherwise they must lose all hope of getting living rates to their markets in r the north |