Show BETTER TE t 1 Utah an and Idaho Beet Sugar M rn n Have a Grievance t EFFORT TO ADJUST MATTERS I 4 RECENT TRIP OP OF DAVID ECCLES AND AiD JOSEPH 4 S to The Ogden April Is 15 back from a visit to the east made In hi Inthe hithe the Interest or of the sugar business ot of Utah and Idaho Mr Eceles and To Jo Joaeph ph Geoghegan of Salt Lake attend d the national conference ot of s sUgar gar pro in Washington then thon went to New York to ChIcago where they appeared before belore the Western Traffic association In an endeavor to get traffic rates adjusted so as to td put Utah and Idaho sUS suga interests on the same sante footIng fooling as In other ether states The unequal conditions w were re summarized by Mr Eccles In tin n Inter Interview vIew for tor The Herald as follows I Utah Gets Short End I Utah has nas to pay Iii 55 cents per on sugar shipped to Missouri river points 1 hae ha precisely the same rate hut but gets the sugar carried milEs farther Colorado poInts pa pay only onh 2 CentS cent per and have a haul of no noI more inure than i O OO mlles mUes less than that I of Utah We Ve contend for the same sameI t I proportion of If reduction as to Utah on account or of lesser mileage as Is accorded Colorado This would make our rate about 40 cents Higher Rates Bates For Seed Furthermore Utah and Idaho have hae to pay from 50 to 70 per cent higher er rates on all the beet seed and all the sugar bass bags which they thOY ship In As we bring In no no less lesa tl titan n of seed Heed and pounds of sacks each this Is an Important item of die ls crImination agaInst Us In times past the discrimination on sugar sept out from here did not count so ro much be because beCause cause wo we used to consume all that we produced bad the freight differential In our favor as against outside I sugar BUgar No Now that we are producing more and more we have to find an eastern market for about Of our pr Under the present rates we have to pay 15 cents more per than we IVe should which means that we weke mke ke just that much less Offered a Pew Few Pacts Facts We represented to the representatives tives of th the association both in New NewYork ew York anti and Chicago that tons of su suI sugar I gar produced in our states means more II to theIr roads than tons produced ed edIn In Cuba because the Cuban sugar 18 s landed at Its market without going ovet theIr roads while our production means not only thousands or of dollars Con on Consugar sugar tariffs tariff but the money paid log toJ seed bags and machinery I think th they ty were impressed ed with our state I m meat nt but the gentlemen en of course could not commit themselves until after further deliberation Oreg Oregon n is Favored Incidentally the dIscussion ot of the mutter brought out that sugar ar bags and sugar beet seed ed can be shipped to the amalgamated c companies La Orande Ore today cheaper t aIl to ifie Utah factories This TIis Is dope done by consigned them through andLa and La LaGrande Grande to Portland which has the same rate as California and then send sendIng lug Ing them back to La The same I freight stopped in Ogden costs at least 54 50 per er cent mor more |