Show WOOL ooL RATES RAISED H BY THE RAILROADS S Burdens of the r t ta top topa a Considerable Extent Ext At AtI C I I w M Makes l s Rite Rate Par Pr Hi df d fe t j Increase Mews Mells f I i ila e 4 4 4 4 j 4 T figures in la the tile following folio tables are hosed based on tnt the 4 t 1 f I output of wool from fi this t state aute and sn are 4 j f ba d on oa the tile lowest rate of shipment They phew 4 4 that th iii Increase of ot revenues Stein from wool alon alOM win will 4 to 1 4 nit net tha th railroads railroad over 1117 It I Is sate safe to estimate e that tie de finite figure will exceed the amount jIve given The f wool output 1 is Ia approximately aa as follows follow 1 4 Clip Rat Rate Increase 4 4 1 17 1131 1 1 4 4 IMS tI 1 15 N tt 11 f 4 UM tIN Iff I 1 MM SIS 4 t Increase of revenue in 1 over 1111 M In Ia 4 4 UM ills with a clip 1000 less than the year preceding D 4 4 the raise rIs In rates to 2 made a net let Increase in la lato porta 4 I 4 to the railroads of ot f TIle The figures figure are for to fo the dM t 4 shipments ta from Utah only ont 4 t T TRE HE wool growers of Utah Idaho and narn J I had bad of a boost in la mt rates rate to tote inS 9 to te The Tb reason aa i Is Ia an aa a by W eastern tern road mud of their tel pro rata from frem rem 44 cents ceDe f cs B P cants The he rate rat last year was 2 and 4 the t year before Wore wet were w made as aa low as aa H M to toW LM US Wyoming W wool growers have Already aiNU called a to convene v within the next few days and The Tho Herald hi is j r asked to call the attention of President ent Jesse Jema M II Smith Ith of the tM Utah association to tt the importance of having the subject by his association Prominent growers grower who have bay just jut come in from trout the e report rep that ts the ht losses 1 in la Idaho due to tf unprecedented storms tor will wID be enormous in seine name cases case reaching 50 10 per pel cent of the flock In Utah the losses Ions hay have not boon been so 10 o bad but It has haa been n a poor DOG season allOa and an the Utah owners who range rP their sheep in Idaho aho and Wyoming are facing facine a serious situation On of them said 14 yesterday erda that any an grower crower will make a profit on oa the season u even If It the advance in new MoW freight rates ratH does not stand with the th railroad taking off 18 11 1 cents cent l more morein moreIn moreIn in freight fretah a good pod many of them will J have Ita ve to get let out of the famine or work wort for or lass las I than tUn nothing This Thi same grower ower said that J 7 A Munroe traffic manager of the tile Union Pa Pacific ethe is to be here shortly and it behooves behoove the through th their a to arrange for tor a meeting with ith Itla Mr Munroe Xun and present he the fact faeta to him blat with aUl a view to securing a modification of the latest latet lat ruling Railroads Need Heed the Money Monsy In the tat absence ace of any organised action ac said eald this thi grower crower the tM railroad people will WW think we can afford to tn stand nd this raise ratH A As a matter of tad tact we could roaM not nt have nave it come at a worse wone time Idaho Idabo has hs not had bad suck such a severe winter m lit thirteen years year n The men who ho fed their tel sheep heep have been under n heavy ex expense pense and those t who did not net feed lave hove lost a as high Ieh a as v TO 0 per cent of ot their se seI I 1 believe that if it the railroads 8 understand the situation and have ft It argued in a reasonable way wa they thea will see He the justice of f our claim that the rate will he be The railroads railroad cannot afford to destroy the th wool industry Jad any an more than we ran afford to be driven out of business jf If President Smith win will call can calla Ii a meeting of ot his hi association promptly we can n e n at least lesil present our case and stand a chance ch of saving vine ourselves from tre t the excessive a l charges charge proposed Another thing Some a pound p und of wool ool have bave been sold II for future delivery on o the basis baai at of the SI II 3 rate roie It hardly seems fair to make either elt the rower grower or the tile buyer buy pay the additional price when w transactions transaction have been bused baaed on 04 the tb onen rate inte According to the output of Utah wool last year ar r the t increase win will make a e ed d a with amlen of nf of f over In the tR amount 01 alo to 18 the railroad 1 for the li of this state t alone It wUl wUI increase e the rite revenues of the railroad bout over ever two tw years eara ago p In Idaho MOo Mon Montana I tana tans and aad Wyoming w the taw increase of GI revenues will be still greater owing to the Ute greater t r amount of wool shipped from those th states |