Show I A SHARP CONTRAST i Gaze on This Picture and 4 Of J Then on Thai TACTICS OF THE LITTLE GIANT The D R G Policy Towards Colorado Miners Who Ship to Utah Smelters The action of Charles Francis Adams President of the U PTR Pt and a heavy stockholder in the Kansas City Smelting worksin shutting Utah Out of the benefits of the Wood River ore trade and bestowing those benefits upon himself him-self through the Kansas City concern has been the prevailing theme among business man since it was announced by THE HERALD 011 Sunday moraine There was a very indignant sentiment about town all day yesterday and had the right set of men arisen to take the head of the movement an indignation meeting meet-ing and a wholesale determination to stand out against the aggression of the monopoly could easily have been effected As it was there was much murmuring and considerable talk of boycotting but nothing has as yet come of it A HERALD reporter called at the D R G for the purpose of ascertaining if possible how far the tactics of the overgrown over-grown giant was imitated or avoided by the narrow gauge He was kindly received by Mr Eccles general freight and passenger agent and plunged at once into the business by inquiring Mr EcclesdoesyourToad have much ore trade from Colorado 1 We h vehad a great deal was the response Several thousand car loads of ore have been sent from Leadville to Utah smelters since our road opened up There is not somuch of that traffic now owing to the decline in lead leadWihat rate have ± ailemled Lead < ville shippers 1 t 1 II Six doilars a ton JJ 1 What 19 the distance from here to Leadville7 J f Itis568milesi The distance froih Wood River to Salt Lake i s something like 3QO miles 5 The rate charged by the U Pv from f Wood River to SaltLake is 20 per ton Do you make correspondingly low rates from points between here and Leadville asked the reporter I Certainly wag the reply It is our desire and our endeavor toplace Utah on exactly the same basis as Denver Den-ver or Pueblo Jt Can you sho v me any figures inquired in-quired the reporter of what has been done in the way of shipments from Colorado to CJtahJ I Mr Eccles opened adrawer Here said he are the pool reports for the various weeks and months through the summer and fall In April we brought fiftythree cars of ore 635 tons from Leadville here in May 116 cars 1160 tons in June 103 cars 1036 tons in July we were of coarse closed in August ninetyfour cars Oltt tons There were somein September but as I said the decline in lead has shut it off recently u And all of these hirouen 9ocune t SGnl mJI All of them HIs there much Utah produce going I into Colorado the reporter inquired I A great deal the cuntr our rqad has opened up for Utah shippers is a 1 vast one and includes Grand Juction I Mont rose iunnison Sanerino Crested Butjje Leadville etc Lpon all points I not covered by the pool we havegiven verv favorable rates to Utah shippers and Utah todaycontrols thetrade of those sections in several departments The most particular are hay alfalfa and 1 oats Tim L of course a good deal objectionable ob-jectionable Denver as she has always controlled those points and it is rule or I ruin with her ButUtah supplies them i now and will do so Our rates have also enabled merchants to make some shipments of groceries and dry goods out there with satisfactory results In October we sent 389 tons merchandise 1 from Utah into Colorado as you can I see from this pool report1 showing the reporter the Traffic Association statement state-ment for October r How is it that we OAnt ship flour idown there ° Ah said Mf Eccles witha smile thai is I fear thefault of your millers theyare gettingtoo much herein in Denver the best flour is selling at 150 per hundred We give the best possible rate to Utah shippers said Mr Hccles in conclusion and with a smile we dont say here if you ship in by the r J P you shant ship out bus b-us I Making all due allowances for Mr Eccles predictions in his own interest and for a natural desireto boomhis own road there still exists so sharp tumid significant a difference between the policy of the Little Giant and the Big towards Utah that wayfaring man though a gibbering idiot need not have it pointed out to him |