| Show SALT LAKE WINS FIGHT FOR TRADE 1 Commerce Commission Orders Or Or- ders lers Rate Increase to Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- Coast Terminals I INE NE NEW r FIELD OPENED Effect Will Vill Be to Put Local Jobbers on n Plane to Compete Com Coin I Coast Interests pete With ith SALT AlT LAKE LAFF Jobbers won a victory the thO interstate L 1 yesterday when commerce commission ordered that the proposed rates on classifications and commodities to and from Pacific c coast terminal points should hould be C cancelled cancelled can CU U Uc c celled and ana that the a agreement between the railroads and shippers for Cor Increase should be a compromise compromiso on the bass basis of ot t u Shippers on the Pacific cirle coa coast t and the railroads r agreed that an increase of oC 10 cents a hundred pounds should hould bo be made maae on on carload ad lots to Pacific coast terminals nals and an increase of 23 25 5 cents a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred o on less than carload lots Heretofore Heretofore Heretofore Here Here- the rates to the Pacific coast t terminals ls ha have 0 been much lower than tho rates to the thc tain ln countrY haul territory points as ast S and back cities coast t the e railroads claimed the hould have hae lower rates on account 01 of water vater competition When the case was first heard the interstate commerce commission or ordered or- or dered tho the railroads to increase o their I rates to the Pacific coast to the same samo amount as the rates to the Intermountain lain tain country This would Jave C meant an n Increase of oC several e hundred per cent commission Sion then in Iii man many cases Tho The suspended the tile rates until SO 0 o and In the meantime the shippers mid the railroads got tog tOh together ther and agreed upon an Increase which was ac acceptable ac- ac to the commission With th the tho order ot of yesterday the commission canceled the hearing whIch wa was set for Salt ait Lake for November ember S Press dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- dis- dis according to Associated s patches excepting so far as a It applied to beans bean and canned goods but the secretary ecret n of ot th the lie interstate commerce commission lon wired Ired H H. W. W manager manager man man- ager of the Traffic Service ice Bur Bureau au of Utah that the hearings on the fourth section will ill b be held as arranged which means the h hearing hlin lin will take tak place In Inthis Inthis Inthis Ti Asso- Asso this city on tho the named e e dated Press further reported that th the hearing held will only affect those commodities mentioned above The commodities on OTt which the in increases in- in creases es are ue made are arc Iron steel hardware hardy hard- hard ware pir y re canned goods dry goods s paper paints and oils m moving westward and andon on CIn ea carloads of of- asphaltum canned goods dried fruits and andvino wine vino from Crom Pacific coast points Through h the increase In the freight rates rateR to and from the Pacific coast points the tho local jobbers will be able to enter territory which has heretofore been Veen held exclusively b by the California Jobbers jobber 1 The railroads will also add to their earnings by b the higher rates and it is expected that the aggregate age earnings s of tho the transcontinental lines will be bo Increased in increased In- In crea creased ed a year ear Jobbers of or I he Intermountain haul back territory asked tho the interstate comm commerce ion to either increase Pacific coast terminal to equal the intermountain I lutes ates or reduce the Intermountain rates t tip equal Pacific coast terminal ch charges of Controversy Contro Tnt Thc Interstate commerce commission ordered the transcontinental railroads to tu Increase their rates on certain ar- ar tides from Crom eastern points to Pacific coast points Heretofore the rates to the tile Pacific coast terminals have been I lower than the ones to th the Intermountain tam tain country on account of oC the water competition mH arid and it was orl originally held heM lJ by the tile interstate commission lon th that t the lower Jower ower rates to Pacific coast points were justified under the water competition c clause of or the interstate commerce act In June of this tills year Spokane shippers Invited the Intermountain and the back- back haul territory shippers s to Join with ith them In a suit which was riled filed before the Interstate commerce commission ion to secure an increase In the tho rates to Pacific Pa Pa- Ia coast terminals terminal and to haul back shippers rs It was pointed out b by the shippers that there was no water competition competition com corn petition between the Atlantic and Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- chile coasts as all ships hip engaged aged In coastwise trade tra-de had hall been heen turned Into trans Atlantic channels on account of or orthe the war The closing of or the toe Panama canal also figured In evidence before the commission which held that the railroads we were C r o e discriminating against the intermountain country and haul back-haul territory shippers Jd local l Johh Jobber rJ The Thc railroads prepared to place the rates rales In effect September r l 13 15 but upon I the application o of shippers and rall- rall Hads th the commission ordered the rates be be suspended until December 30 0 Inc 1916 In Jn the c meantime the railroads an and the Shippers got ot to together ther and reached an agreement for an increase In rates to the Pac Pacific lc coast const terminals This agreement agreement agree agree- ment was was tiled flied with the Interstate commerce com corn merce commission t several everal weeks ago and the ruling of or the commission means that its former order Is rescinded Rates Hates to the intermountain country are not Increased or decreased by the order It means that San Francisco and other coast jobbers will have e to pay a higher freight rate than formerly and this will permit tho the Salt Lake and other other oth oth- er intermountain city jobbers to get a apart apart apart part of oC the territory which has hall been held by the coast wholesale houses W. W S. S McCarty McCarl and H. H W W. ett of ot the tiie Traffic Service bureau represented Salt lake I-ake shippers at the hearing before belore the Interstate commerce commission com corn mission f I The new order Is la the a agreement which has been reached h by the shippen shippers shippers ship ship- pers pen and thc railroads said J. J A A. A Reeves es general freight a agent of the Oregon Short hort Line It Is a compromise compro mise mine and does away with a lot lol of ot new It docs not affect the rates to tile the country one way or th other but does docs affect the tho thor r rates es to terminals on the Pacific coast |
