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I Salt Laki: Uitv, Oct. ;io. 1ST1. j h'ii'ors Herald; 'J I Tho Omaha Bee, iu the interest of 1 : the Union I'aciGo railroad, and in ad- a I vocaey of tho exorbitant freights on t I Utah ore and bullion charged by that e rood, has made certain strictures on n 1 our recent nrticlc upon that subject in ; your paper, which from their semi- a 1 official character require an answer. r Tho Bee says ; 1 "The advanced rates upon ores by i the Union Pacific was, wo aro reliably i, ! informed, simply to obtain a rate suffi- ! eiently romunerativo to pay tho actual , cost of transportation." 8( Marvellously astute in gathering in- a formation on actual cost of operating a railroad must be the gentlemen man- h aging tho same, whon they have to C run the garnet through a sliding scale on six months trial, if such vas- I dilating rates as $10 then $18 then I 525 per ton for ores, or as $11 then ::.") then per ton for bullion, h I Any man of common sense knows that i when Ihe U. I1. road freighted oro : ami bullion for $110 a car it was not I below actual cost. And wherefore this great discrimination between ore and i bullion ? If actual cost were the aim, I bullion should be lower than oro. Does ; tho road make such discrimination between a ease of coarso cotton goods i and ono of silks and velvets of tlio : wine weight? between a car load of ! bar iron and one of refined steel edge ! tools, if you please ? Since the 1st of August many freight j trains have run eastward from Ogden with three-fourths of the cars empty, j In a single train of Iwenty ears, seven-j seven-j Icen were empty. The actual cost of running these loaded with ore or bul-1 bul-1 lion would not bo more than fifteen J per eont. over tho cost of running : empty; at reasonable rates (and this ' above actual cost) every car would I have been freighted with the products j of Utah mines; and instead, as the j Bee itself admits, of a falling oft' from ! 'JOT cars of oro and forty-four cars of ; bnlfiou in July to twelvo of ore and thirly-iip of bullion iu August, the number would have been more than doubled. Is it not nearer the truth, ' Mr. VA-, to slate the effort of the road j aa jiiuiy iu uuiaiu luionuaiion 01 i the 1 actual cost of transporting empty I rains'.'' Next Ihe Bk says: "Several months ago when informed ' of tho necessity of advancing the rates on ores, Mr. Walker of the Uuima mine informed general Sickles that he would continue the shipment, nolwith-. nolwith-. standing Ihe proposed increase in the rales. The cessation of shipment by the :Kmma mine, wo have reason to ludieve, was occasioned because tho Swansea works found great difficulty in reducing the Kmma oro, and do-dined do-dined to purchase it after August 1st, except at a large reduction from former piices." We arc authorized by the Walker I tiro's to state that this ail a sham. And we venture Ihe asscrlion that neither Mr. Walker, nor any other person per-son in the Uuiina mine ever made such .statements to general Sickles or lo any oihcr gentleman of the road. Hut wc can state 3 a fact that the Liverpool purcha.-crs, of Kminaorcs last freighted in July, arc ready and offered to take one thousands tons per day at ) the same rales for. Ibfi balance of the season. Again: Messrs. Webster, Lewis , ('0., lead smelters of New i'ork, have since that time smelted a hundred tnns oi' tliis Umma ore, and if the U. P. fruit; hi were not so exorbitant the; would be very giad to send over thi road to their works .100 tons of sami ore per month during ihe next twelvi c month.i. Q Finally the Btc declares "tho slate uiout that rates from Chicago ti : Uheyeuue c!u Kansas city aud Dcuve h are lower than from Omaha to Obey d enne direct, is simply absurd." :s Let us examine this point! Is i ) tiuiply absurd that the Union PaciO' ls . have charged J00 for a car of bulhoi it over their road, when the same ca d could be gent from Omaha to Nev e York lifty per ceut greater di-lauec-y and over three different roads fo "s $140? 1; There a:c reliable geuilemeu il 0 Omaha who can attest the truthj'ulncs u of this statement and two employes 01 is tho line of the U. P. road, adjiiittiu. is tho absurdity oj lhtfadt undertook t is ju-tify the same by remarking tha r "the roads by Kansas city an ' Denver can afford to do tha n thing: they arc going iot is a declioe, and will shortly chant-it chant-it 1 hands all the money those roads ca "d got is po much clear gain but ou :h road is not run that way." 0- , But what we are more interested i r- is this Can the Bee inform us who of the reduction of freight, absolotel le and unqualiticdly promised by pres-i ie dent Scot;, at the orlica of Mr. Ca;; 10 on Liberty stree-t, New York, on th a- 2th of September last, will go int 1- operation? Or can it tell us hoi id many more months will be required :o "simply to obtain a rate .ntjiiaentlt r( ly munerativc to pay actual cost of tram poriatint," K, M, .Karntm. |