| Show j 0 O CHANCE FOR S LOW G APE ORES 5 Problem Pr blem Is Up to the Smelter Trust T 5 S RAILROADS NOT T TO B BLAME E S ON There is little of tM the th Utah railroads ds reducing freight rates rata on ores unless u s the smelters I reduce treatment chafes The traffic S department of b both th the Oregon Short Line and the Rio Grande Western it itIs ItIs itIs Is understood HI 1 e e reached the con conclusion c m that very VerJ little traffic would be added by a ft reduction in tr freight rates as long as the American Smelting Refining ReAm company keeps the treatment charges up As the smelter trust holds out no hope of ot a reduction until the new smelter at Murray is completed which will not be before some time next DeX year yr y rf Ur 88 u late lat as Ui spring the immediate outlook for a change cha ge is 1 not bright The tame managers of the Short Line Rio Grande have bave been collecting a vast Vf amount of Information rma tion lion to aid them In dealing ealing with the ore question They Thay have statistics on the amounts am of f ores exposed expo in various mines in hi dif ferent camps the assay UA values valued treat treatment treatment ment meet charges and nd other details det Us They have found a II te l stated that there are undoubtedly y vast amounts ot of low grade STade ores in the different camps but that a reduction in freight freIgh t rates rat alone would result simply in moving present traffic at tower r rates The ore would tiR remain r in the mines because of or Ole flie charges exacted by the smelter trust for f r treatment The railroads are ready to go half halfway halfway halfway way in helping the th solve this problem but freight is by no n means 80 an item in handling most moat of f the tle Utah ores as is Js the smelter charge The rate In ores from Tintic to Self Salt t Lake for example exam le i IB iO 50 a aten ato aten ten to arie e treatment lent charges charged on Tintic ores j ran n as high JUIl a 14 or oven wore a ton the th gross groas value of the theore theore theore ore is j p 11 15 l and nd the th t treatment nt charge 14 a reduction of the freight rate to even 1 a ton would not n t help the situation any Railroads Not to Blame There is a disposition in certain quarters to blame the railroads for preventing this ore from being moved said a railroad man yesterday This is unfair If Ir the will wUl get sat after atter the smelter company and secure Cure Jl ae ure a reduction in the treatment ent charges so that a reason reasonable able reduction of o freight rates is all H is necessary necee ary to bring brinS about the stopping shipping of a large amount of ore are they th y will Und the railroads ra roads ready read to make the reduction A sliding scale of rates bas baucci d on the values of or the ores OAIS has been pro proposed prof f posed raising raisinA the rates on the higher hig hr grade ores ones S and cutting them on the theio io lower iowa v r grade de cies cite Is would be te roll fill Allright rollright right if the smelter company would woud do dothe dothe dothe the same with treatment charges ch The he railroads would willingly tak tk such a astep astep step if the result meant mant the moving of enough more ore to pay But the en entire entire tire tift situation is I up to o th smelter swelter trust There Thero Je is another p a ln which the railroad men say hey ey are re placed pla ed in a false light before befu jU i mine owners oW This Thia is Ja in charging lead producers rod cers with a hundred undred h freight to the Mis Missouri Sean river The shipper of lead ores in I settling with the smelter trust is in the th first placed credited with only M se per cent of the J lead d contents or o his hh ore according to the tie assay the t e 19 If per pir percent percent cent being laid kUd to loss lo e in smelting Then he be is charged per on the ground that this is the freight on the bullion to t the Missouri river where the nearest refineries are The actual rate on lead bullion to the Missouri river r is 18 only 10 a ton or it 55 6 cents a hundred making at this rate an even 1 1 a hundred which goes to the th smelter trust The freight an QU lead bullion from I Salt Lake clear to New Ne York is only I sic 15 11 a too toe or 75 71 cents a I hundred These TheseS are the tariff tarUI rates and heavy he vy shippers shippen S know whether the smelter trust would be likely to pay full tariff rates rn te on I the tile vast gt amount of 01 tonnage it ships J every month |
