Show i tJ t 1 COMMENTS ON 1 mm UTAH COAL RATE RAn RAnI I I ti I If f h Babcook Babcock Says It Is Designed to tl i Give Union Pacific Big p t jf j Profit on Longer Haul i I i I 4 i TRAFFIC BUREAU BULLETIN 1 I PRINT PAPER PAPE AND HID ARE 4 ALIO TOUCHED UPON I E I j 1 of ot 8 B II Bt It t li I I Ihn thit I manager of ot the LaKo uko City Tra le bureau to Junue from to time Um but it b leUn regarding traffic rl Theas f tt bulletins bulletin he explained yesterday will willbe P be based baud on data accumulated from re research research J search made In his office and will touch j upon tIpon matters mattere of ot Interest to this section 1 mainly Several days das the clerks have hae a I been engaged In following up a line Une or ot orF F research on a number of tariff matters I t p outlined by Mr Babcock and yester yesterday ester esteri i i day Ilay the first three bulletins were Is Issued sued aued J The first of or these bulletins Is In re rei regard 1 i I 1 II Kard Jard to news printing paper carload 1 pounds Mr 1011 Babcock gives the following I Freight to Ogden from Chicago for Utah consumption 4 per car Chi Chicago Chicago cago to San Francisco WOO Joo OO per pcr car carf f penalty against a Utah newspapers with 9 miles less Ie haul per car This I cur car when going to San Francisco Francl co Is IsE i ie E e actually hauled from Chicago to Og Ogden I den for or 1972 but when for Utah peo people w plo pI they are required to pay for the haul aul Tho The second bulletin regards dry hides and steep sheep pelts carload OOOO pounds IJ Jt It j reads j 1 Freight from froni Utah to Chicago Lf r a car Clr freight from San Francisco to Chicago 60 per car penalty against I Utah stockmen 94 per car This San Sanz p z Francisco car is actually hauled from i Ogden to Chicago for while j 1 Utah people are required to pay i I The third bulletin is of considerable i length and relates to coal rates In Inthis Int Inthis t this bulletin b Mr Babcock makes this o charge charl e Tho existing high rates on coal from fromI 1 I the nearby mines on the Rio Grande 1 Western In Utah proceed from an r agreement with the Union Pacific inter InterI I t eats to maintain the same in order orr ord r to tor toI I r give the latter a highly hight profitable haul I 1 into Utah from the coal fields on their I f I 4 s own lines In Wyoming much farther t I away 1 The Tho bulletin declares that the only 4 I dividend ever paid on the common stock of t either elthEr the Denver Rio Grande or j Rio Itlo Grande Western railway compa companies 1 nies since their reorganization In was wa paid by the Rio Grande Western 1 t company companO when It was as under the th Inde Independent Independent independent pendent management of Colonel D C CI I Dodte Dod eo In August of 1900 before beCore the thet t sale salts of ot the road to the Gould interests r and Its consolidation with the Denver R Rio o Grande In 1901 1001 The dividend I then paid says Mr Ir Babcock was 5 S per percent peri i cent on n the common capital stock and andr andI I amounted d to Then he states I J r The company earned most of or the necessary money by b hauling coal from fromI I 1 the mines in Carbon county count to Ogden for 75 Th cents a ton It was done by maintaining the th track In con i litton and using cars of or capac ity 11 hauled by b powerful locomotives likewise In perfect order j r |