Show NOTICE OF S fREIGHT i R RATE A J E I rt 4 r 5 1 j f r. r l r RISE i ti t- t S i ir Pittsburg rg Firm Finn A Advises Salt Lake City Buyers of Advance Advance Ad Ad- vance in Charge on Transporting Transporting Trans porting Pipe Patrons of ot the National Tube com tom pany Pittsburg Pa PL In Salt Lake City received advices by mail mall today tr from m that company that effective vo April 1 1914 pipe in carloads from tram Pittsburg to Salt Lake City Ogden and 2nd a all l Utah common points wo would be bo advanced ill iu freight rates 8 8 2 cents per po pounds ds Under the tho new freight rate it will ilI cost the shipper 8 83 85 a car moro more to ship to Salt Lako Lake City than it will to ship tho same sarno car ear lot from Pittsburg to Los bo Jo Angeles Cal Advances in freight rates Tates are also listed on pipe fittings 8 in jn carloads an and andin anlin l lin in less than h n carloads from Pitts Pittsburg burg Only Chicago Rates Raus Considered In tho the last Jast hearin hearing held before th the interstate commerce commission Jion on the suit brought b by the traffic bureau o of or orthe the Salt Lake Commercial club the traffic bureau complained only of cs rates from Chicago o BO so that nothing was wa done for Utah shippers with reg regard rd to rates from points east cast of Chica Chicago oV o. o V When cn the tho traffic bur bureau au was waa given givena hen hena a a. favorable decision local shippers secured se sc cured a more equitable r rate te from Chicago Chi cago to Salt Lake Lako and Utah common points pOint's though a through ra rate e was n not t granted at first Then the tho long and anel short hort haul case caso was wa tried and deci decided resulting tin in t the o c at t of ot z zOI zones the Missouri Mis s ud rh river tho Uio Basis fixed d as aa th tho per er cent cont point Tho The Commission sion has hns ruled that tha Western West West- ern era shippers m may y go o ens east a as far as the river on the tho per ent cent basis but that rates will grade ade upward beyond the tho river The erate on p pipe pe from toLo to o oLos' oLos Los Los' Angeles approximately miles west of or Salt Lake City is 6 65 cents cent Tho The rate ride from to Chi Chicago a o i. i n 18 cents cente and from Chicago to Utah common points is if IB 60 CO cents centz making the rate rato from Pittsburg to Utah common points 78 cents That Thatis is 13 cents high higher cr er than tha the tho rate from Pittsburg to Los Angeles Rates Grade Upward Acting on the ruling that rates grade grado upward from the Missouri river river Chicago Chicago Chi cago cago Is graded at p per r cent Pittsburg at per cent and New York at nt 12 percent Taking this as aa a basis the rate from Chicago on pipe is 11 lIt percent percent per percent cent of 65 cents or 74 1411 cents per pounds or 3 34 cents less than local o l dealers are now no required to p pay The local traffic bureau says the tho r railroads railroad are not satisfied with this but ha e pushed the rate up Jo to 86 cents They say that if it ift anything n wore were needed to show alien the injustice t or of of the railroads ds to Western shippers this sh should uld do i it Tho The interstate commerce commission is on record in the matter of the establishment establishment of zone rates The Tho railroads Continued on ou pace naco IB lt I NOTICE OF II Continued from page a e 1 I havo bavo javo It ot attacked the tho justice jl tice of tho rates fixed b. b by tho the commission for the zones but they have attacked tho right of the commission to lish the tIle zones zones The ease case is no now pending before the supreme court of tho the United Unite States Charge Unjust Treatment tm nt Local shippers point int to another case of what they thoy saY say is arbitrary and unjust unjust un un- un- un just just- treatment of ot W Western shippers tho the old days of the Utah Ulah Central Gentral Cen Gen Ion long lone since gone out of business a a. arate arate rate of 25 5 cents the pounds wa was established nn on linoleum in cars car's between Salt Lake City Cit and O Ogden Ogdon den This Thi rate is in effect today although tho rate on linoleum in car lots from Now York to San Fran Francisco eco Is only 1 The distance between NeW Now York an anSan and San Francisco on transcontinental freight lines is is miles The distance distance distance dis dis- tance between Salt Lake City and O Ogden Ogdon den denis is soven miles Au Acc According to a n comparison of the two freight rates h however wever O Ogden den is IB no DO more moro than 14 miles from New York If the tho local rate were ere made mad the tb through rate rato it would woul coot coet th tim tho shipper 2255 for every pounds of linoleum he should ship from New York to Sa San Francisco The Tho traffic bureau of the club has halt secured a suite of offices s. s a anO at nO K arns building and is pr aring for another battle with the railroads railroad b before rore tho the interstate int commerce commie commis lion eion to HO euro what they term torm is justic for the Shipper and nd the tho consumer in thi field fI J |