Show OUR RAILROAD RATES lOUR Mr Whitehead Makes an Interesting Inter-esting Report THE STOCK EXCHANGES WORK I N Treweek Stood Like a Stone R all In Defense I Barnes IIII nail Kef used I j to Budge an Inch 1 I In a recent number the HERALD Mr J V7 Whitehead jr bat a valuable article on the discriminations made by the railroad companies against Salt Lake I This Wos supplemented by a report ho 1 mace to the real estate exchange at yesterdays I da meetin days meeting The report was uinmimously adopted and ion i-on motion of Judge Colborn the president appointed a comnittet consisting Judge Colborn JiidgelioAVinanand Whiteheadto confer with alike corsmiueelrom the chamber cham-ber of commerce t tae action towards securing equitable freight rates for this city Mr Vhit heads paper was a follows SALT LAKE CIIY July 10lr President I I Presi-dent Upon examinaticn we find the trunk lines entering this city biiid our mer ch nis to the rules and conditions of the western classificationwhich areadopted by all trunk lines west of Chiqago andat the same time they act in connection with the Southern Paiaric railroad and sixteen other western lines all of whom act in conjunction conjunc-tion with their eastern connections and form what they choose to call the Transcontinental Trans-continental association I which makes commodity rates to ihe Pacific coast terminals ter-minals and intermediate points As wo understand the rules and conditions condi-tions of each classification adopted by a number of roads are such as to conform with the interstate commerce law the intention of which is t show partiality to none and favor to all It seems to us the spirit and intention of the law has been broken by this association by making special spe-cial rates on all articles manufactured in the east that are needed on the Pacific seaboard sea-board and placing them under what they choose to call terminal commodity rates The rates on these articles run from 13 to to 33 per cent more to Salt Lake than do the rates on the same articles from the same shipping point to San Francisco I would seem irom the Transcontinental I association that a commodity for the Pacific I Pa-cific coast is not a commodity for Utah The tariff sheet gotten out by this association asso-ciation under date of June ISJO consists fifty nine pages two of which are devoted to intermediate commodity rates and the other fiftyseven pages are devoted to Pacific coast terminal rates and on these two pages but twentyfive articles are quoted and of this number all but cranberries cranber-ries lemons oatmeal oils packing house products and railway equipments and locomotives loco-motives are produced here The two latter articles are used only by the roads themselves them-selves leaving but five articles that are needed by the trade two of which are higher one the same and two lower than the rate according t the western classifications classifi-cations I would seem that the few articles named in this commodity sheet are inserted in-serted merely for a blind to a revised or enppinl I vntr c for tho Pnrifir rnnst to satisfy the demands of the people of those states who have always at heart the interests inter-ests of their beautiful and growing country coun-try It need not be claimed on the ground of an old water rate that these roads are compelled t make their terminal rates lower than their intermediate rates in order to meet competition and by so doing lose money for such is not the case First they do not need the water rate and second sec-ond they do not lose money as the bulk of their business is through freight and the Union Pacifics net profits according to their printed reports are something simply gigantic and every man who has ever been connected with the administration of that road has become a many times millionaire These roads can be operated for less than 25 per cent in advance of the cost of operating oper-ating the roads east of the Missouri river and thev demand and get over 70 percent of the money received for shipments from this point to the Atlantic seaboard and likewise in tho same proportion on on the mer chandtee coming to this country We would respectfully recommend that you appoint a committee of three to act in conjunction with a similar committee from the chamber of commerce and that you instruct in-struct your secretary to request the chamber cham-ber to appoint such a committee and the two act a one and decide on some plan of procedure to get our freight rates reduced and so report to their respective bodies J W WHITEIIEAD Chairman JR |