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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH HITS THE RAILROADS Be Un- Crippled less Relief. Comes Soon. EXPENSES Young man, do you know that your employer will take a personal interest in you when he learns that you are saving some of your pay? Start a Savings Account With Us and youll soon be getting ahead in the world. Money means opportunity for you. Hyrum State Bank sc A Complete Line of Merchandise. You need it now or will need it soon. We Still Handle the FREE SEWING MACHINE. Latest Makes - Plain andCabinet Styles. UP, RATES Wasteful and Conflicting Regulatione Hamper Railroad Credit, While Advance In Labor and Materiala Revenues, Chairman Telle Congress Committee. Unified Federal Control Will Improve Conditiona. Out-atrip- a Krutt-achni- tt Washington, April 2. The condition in which the railroads find themselves as a result of constant increases in wages, prices of material, taxes and other expenses, while their revenues ore restricted by legislation, was strikingly described by Julius Kruttschnitt, Chairman of the Executive Committee-othe Southern Pacific Company, in his testimony during the past few days before the Joint Congressional Committee on Interstate Commerce, which i, making a study of the question of railroad regulation. Mr. Kruttschnitt urged the committee to recommend a plan of regulation which will center responsibility for regulation and its results in the, federal government, so that conditions affecting both expenses and revenues may be made subject to a uniform policy instead of the wasteful and often conflicting policies involved In the system of combined state and federal regulation. Why Reads Need More Money. Mr, Kruttscbnitts testimony also had a bearing on the reasons for the application of the roads to 'the Interstate Commerce Commission for a general advance in freight rates. He showed that while the price of transportation has declined in recent years, the cost of producing transportation, like the cost of almost everything else, lias rapidly advanced. This lie illustrated by showing that If freight and passenger rates had increased during the. past twenty years in the same proportion as average commodity prices the railroads of the United States would have received $1,054,000,000 more for transportation in 1915 than they did receive. This saving to the public was effected, iu spite of an increase of 93 per cent in the cost of operation of trains, by a reduction in the average passenger rate tier mile from 2.04 cents in 1895 to 1.98 cents in 1913, a decrease of 3 per cent, and by a reduction in the average freight rate per ton mile from 8.39 mills in 1895 to 7.3 mills in 1915. or 13 per cent. During the same period the cost of operation per train mile rose from 92 cents to $1.78, almost doubling. At the same time the average price of 34(5 commodities enumerated in a bulletin of the Department of Agriculture increased 115 per- cent. Transportation is practically the only commodity iu general use that has not increased tremendously in price during the past twenty years, freight and passenger charges being lower than they were twenty years ago. Big Saving to Public, If rates had risen proportionately to the increase iu the cost of other articles of ordinary use, Mr. Kruttschnitt told the committee, the average passenger rate in 1915 would have been 2.95 cents a mile, or 50 per cent higher than it was, and the average freight rate would have been 1.21 cents, or (i(i per cent higher than it was. The saving to the public in passenger fares through this difference was $314,000,-00and in freight rates $1,340,000,000. Universal railroad bankruptcy under this reduction in rates and increased cost of operation, he said, was avoided only by heavy expenditures to obtain increased efficiency in train movement, making it possible to haul more tons of freight per locomotive. This had reduced the average cost of hauling a ton of freight, but the decline in the average freight rate had reduced the net revenue of the roads from each ton hauled. If the operating costs of the railroads, Including the prices of coal, labor and material, continue to advance at the present rate a lot of railroads will be in the hands of receivers by 1918 unless some relief is afforded, Mr. Kruttschnitt told the committee. Owing to the rise of. commodity prices, he said, the purchasing power of the dollar has fallen 55 per cent and the railroads are in the position of being compelled by law to accept payment for their service to 'the public in currency worth 45 cents on the dollar. Publics Chief Interest. "The publics greatest interest is in adequate transportation facilities and not so much in low rates. As to jnost commodities freight rates form a very small proportion of their cost. Excluding low grade commodities, the percentage of the freight rate to the cost Is so slight as to offer no Justifies- - e Shoes Slippers Jewelry Hats Underwear Dress Goods Laces Notions Nails Wire Cement Salt, Etc. Anticipate Your Needs andBuy Early. 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