Show 1 Mr r. r Gray and md Freight Rates Rat i iTHE THE E visit of Carl K R. Gray the newly elected president dent of tile Union Pacific anil ana its is subsidiaries Las has been in nil all 01 respects auspicious auspicious- us and nt filled fied with wih noteworthy note noted worthy worth indications of oi oia a on the part of the railroad executives es and ld t tic the c public whom the they serve to p-to co operate ro for the general welfare of of the country td the of the west At t the luncheon ten ten- t him liim and azid his associates at the Commercial clu club a u of friendliness was mm manifest t that at found e sion in the speeches peeches Q oC welcome of President Jre ident Freed reed and ad Acting Acin 0 Governor Bennion as us well as in the able response of if Mr G. G Only Gray my I himself If y His ref reference to the unique position in which the loads will wil be bc placed when upon March 1 t they C are returned returned re- re turned to their o n owners l after twenty six months of gov- gov eminent nt operation anti and his his' appeal to the business busine men plesent to contemplate the possible contingencies in incase C 1 case their own business lied had been similarly snatched away from them overnight as a it i were and then sum suin- marily handed back excited ed a psychological interest c F l in ln h. h his IS au audience dF d. d lence jr r i It is quite generally stated the roads Jl have suffered impairment nt b by control government and that increase in i Jm ls of or operation providing pro iding improvements purchase i pi ad additional rolling stock etc may call cal for advances a ih transportation charges ct there is v charge yet keen leen disappoint disappoint- meat to shippers in the intermountain section that freight rates are scheduled to be increased On the with the incontrovertible showing already made by bv the tie Com Commercial club cub through its officers to the int interstate in- in t commerce commission Utah business men have lve t V been led to e expect pet a a signal reduction in Utah freight grates rates lotes' after the tile return of the roads to their corporate owners It 1 is not against the possible need Iced of a a. a general rd alce in iii rates rte throughout the country that intermountain inter- inter mountain lunt in shippers arc are objecting objecting-it it it is the unfair discrimination dis- dis crimination in transcontinental rates against this great at so abundantly proven h hat bat t is s th the subject g of o complaints f tC It is b d' d by t those ose who are nrc in i ina a a position to l know ow the thc facts that lat Utah p points ius should ud not stand the J possible general advance in freight tariffs which is in other hand if tim tho discriminatory contemplation On tho the tory charges affecting these points w were re to be equitably adjusted there would ensue a n material reduction In other words the reductions to which our shippers shipper are justly entitled as us has been shown and aud can n readily be just shown again oain to tho new Union Pacific regime would more than th offset tho the probable proba le general advance in rates rales It is earnestly to be hoped therefore in the interest of I all concerned earnesty that Mr Mi Gray Gry will wi examine into all ni the facts and ana con conditions itous before r reaching an any irrevocable conclusion with ith respect to Utah Uth freight rates |