| Show LOER COAl RATE POSSIBlE f I I UK recent r nt order r of the Interstate Int TUE I commerce commer communion commission directing the Oregon OreJo Short Line to reduce r duce Ito rate of l t a ton fon on coal from the Kemmerer and Kock Springs Spring mines In Wyoming to Dolse Twin Falls Kail Halley Mountain Home fume nail 1 eight other towns town In Idaho to ton ISO n ton tan on the grounds that the thet H t rate I a unreasonably high may mn force farce the Denver D ncr A L Itlo 1110 Grande to meet m t the rate V t conference nee was all yesterday held be between between tween Frank raak If general a n ml freight agent of the Oregon Orton Short Line and nit S V Derrah oMi 1 general a n freight fr agent of the Denver Deaver t tRio Rio Itlo ramie and the situation brought by the tile recent r cent order of the Interstate Inter lat r state comm commerce rc commission was T die dis cussed So far tar as all the Oregon Short Line Is concerned there Is no alternative and andon andon on tho other hand the tho Rio Grande Orande is taco face to face with a proposition pr of re to during Its rates rate of from Utah mines to Bolas Boise and other towns In fn the district dl to or losing lOlling this pro prolific title market for coal from Irom Us Its Utah tah mines An Unpleasant Position But this IB th not the tho worst wOr t of it so far as the Denver Denvor Rio Grande is s concerned If U It H reduces Its rate from 1425 to to the Idaho points In question It will stand in to the attitude of confessing that was an un unreasonable unreasonable reasonable rate and that after stand ing a reduction of 75 cents c a ton it Is accepting what the Interstate interstate commerce com oom commerce merce commission considers a lL reason reasonable reasonable able ablo rate The Tho Denver Klo Grande haul from Its Utah mines to Boise Dolse is About bout miles while the tho Oregon Short line Une haul from Rock Springs to Boise Dollie Is about miles The Tho rate charged by the tho Rio Itlo Grande for coal Into Salt Lake and common points Is per ton for a haul of ISO 50 miles Continued on oa InKe lne Three e I i A LOWER GOAL COAL V RATE RAIE POSSIBLE Continued 1 Prom From rom Pace Pege One It Is hardly to be expected that the HarrIman lines will wUl permit the Denver Rio Grande to enter Its UK local ocal field In Idaho upon u on the tho same amo footing rooting but even ven a drop from 45 to might I b be u used d for the purpose of ot argument Mr Ir said that no official noti I of the action of the Interstate commerce commission had been re by the company and I the matter had not been considered but It would doubtless prompt attention upon the return to the city of General G Freight Agent J 3 A peeves I According to Associated Press dIe dis dispatches patches the commission directed the reduced rate rat to go Into effect not later than Aug IE U so If It an appeal Is taken to the tho United States State Supreme court there ther will wll be ample time to perfect It On the other hand it might be pre roble f to have haTe the reduced rate rato go Into effect immediately as it would en enable enable 1 able abl the railroad company to rush in inI Inand Inand I and place Its summer supply of ot coal 1 I The international smelter at Tooele has hall for a large part of the product of the Kemmerer mines mine in to n Wyoming and it is III evidently for tor this reason that the railroad company Is anxious to get the Idaho coal coa dealers well supplied this summer so that It will be In a position to take care of or Its loe smelter contract this winter General Freight Agent D Derrah of the Denver Rio Grande said Bald that the action of or his company on the Idaho J ho coal situation brought about by the re recent recent cent order of ot the interstate commerce commission was largely contingent up on the th action taken by b the Oregon Short LIne Une |
