Show LOCAL FREIGHT RATES Unique Situation Owing to the Rail and Water Cut In yesterdays Tribune appeared an article purporting to give the facts as to the rate situation as brought about through the Star Union line Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania company announcing an all Ail rate on the basis of the rates governing the rail and water lines from seaboard territory That seaboar teritoQ paper also contended that a rate war was on hand and that a certain line in conjunction con-junction with the Star Union had inaugurated in-augurated the cut in rates all of which was foreign to the facts governing then and now The Herald of the same date gave thr > cold facts I i e that the Star Union line had agreed to withdraw the rate which would leave the rates on a 4 I stable basis This has been done by j II that line brought about mainly or altogether al-together by the transmissouri lines I protesting against joining in the rate I Anent all this is a story directly concerning con-cerning Utah jobbers and they will In consequence be largely the gainers for a very short time or until the early death withdraw legally of the new tariffs to b I SANTA FE AND MALLORY LINES The Santa Fe and Mallory lines have put in a tariff from seaboard to tjtah points that ctmmon technically speaking is i no cut a i is no more nir less than recognition of established estab-lished differential rates as against the allrail rates These lines do not call jt a cut in rates but the Utah buyer can nring in his goods from seaboard for just 43 cents per hundred cheaper on firstclas than he could previously I previous-ly even by the rail and water lines low tariff For instance the firstclass rate per hundred from seaboard points i to Utah allrail was 377 The rail r water lines rate was 334 and the Star Unin made the allrail rate I at the latter figure a reduction of 43 cents per hundred on firstclass That 43 cents was the recognized differential allowed and the Mallory steamship and Santa Fe linec make their new tariff read 291 on firstclass and corresponding i cor-responding reductions down the class scale Tn connection it must be said thit such tariff will be shortlived Inasmuch as It is put In to offset the period civen over to the Star Union I lines new and experimental tariff I Right here Is where the Utah buyer I can get In and load up In the short I tme before it is withdrawn I UTAH LINES OPPOSE IT It can be authoritatively said that the Utah lines have refused to join inn I in-n tariff protecting the Gulf differen V Uals and to date no other lines than jroute mentioned have put in rates c 1 Ttah common points This does not nean that they did not desire to Ont I On-t contrary tiiey very much desired t The Union Pacific Denver Gulf is strictly a gulf road and was the first to put in the new tariff to Colorado 1 Colo-rado common points and all south in its territory and is backed to a finish by its rail connections on the south It also held out fOr the Utah traffic I but was denied by the Utah lines that have been in turn criticised by some of the jobbers Of course not all the jobbers criticlpe as a few of them have stocked up heavily and are not rlsslrous of seeing goods come Into the I market that have the advantage of 4 I cenvt per hundred in the selling This feeling is but natural 1 iyiFERENTJALS MUST BE MAIN UJFERENTALS I r As the years have gone by the rail End water liaes have secured new gpo i cessions in the way of increased differ j I entSals a against the allrail route In the early beginning it was small and by degrees worked up to 38 cents on firstclass Now it Is 43 cents The allrail lines submitted only through force of circumstances I came about i through the fact that the great ocean I steamers could take each trip a vast tonnage for ballast it need be and not be out anythinjy Then again the I steamship lines commenced going after the business in a way that secured it and the rail lines to the gulf entered with them fully into the project Seaboard Sea-board territory consists of all that lying east of a line drawn from Toronto To-ronto on south through Buffalo Roanoke Ro-anoke and Charleston From points within that territory freight instead of being consigned by an allrail route to Utah common points can be shipped to New York the sum of the lotnls being absorbed by the through rate via the steamship and rail lines and there you are I can safely be said that the allrail lines view with alrai lnes concern con-cern the existing conditions confronting them not so much from the large differentials dif-ferentials as1 from the steadily increasing increas-ing volume of trade between the great middle west and the gulf on the south an increase that is making itself felt and that the south cannot be forced to give up UTAH IS IN THE SWIM The Heralds advices are that right now Utah is in the swim so far a anew a-new tarif goes carrying with it a reduction re-duction of 3 cents per hundred pounds and a corresponding reduction on other classesthis below the rail and waterlines water-lines regular tariff This information will not surprise the public alone it I will surprise all those other lines who have been turned down by the Utah roads when the latter advised them I they would not join in a tariff preserv Ing differentials Mayhap it will also I create some surprise for the Utah roads No odds how the Santa Fe and Mallory I Mal-lory lines fix it up with the Utah roads the tariff as herein explained is I in and in it will stay until the legal ten days limit on notification has expired ex-pired It is I a decidedly unique condition I condi-tion in freight traffic affairs |