Show REDUCED RATES BATIS 10 UTAH cuts to be made from east and west SOUTHERN PACIFIC THREAT will lower the rate from california and mr curtis says the union pacific will then reduce kates from Clil chicago cago colorado roads bonds think curtis is talking through ills his hat great northern strike san francisco nov 8 according to mr 11 W B D curtla curtis of 0 the traffic association the union pacific has threatened to cut rates it if the southern pacific makes any reduction of 0 its fi freight eight rates to utah ile he submitted ills his report on oil the situation in fix utah to the executive committee at Us its regular monthly session yesterday after telling ot of the conference nt at salt lake city with the lives of tile the trang tran s association railroad companies lie summed up the matter thus the salt lake jobber hail had three contentions tent ions against us alist the fear of san francisco usurping the jobbing trade ot of that city i beang jobbers with trade pride they dont like to be compelled to EO buy from another jobber third they do not like to see oil an adjustment of rates which might permit shipments to lie be made from tile llo east to san francisco and bade back to utah at loss less rates than are made for 61 direct from the tha baba to utah As to their first contention I 1 believe it to bo be groundless in fix the main it Is true hue that thai the san francisco jobber Is bound to bell his goods if 11 opportunity port unity offers still stiff the salt lake jobber could protect himself by buying in cartload lots and our competition would then their be as against the chicago jobber As to the second that ot of course Is not compulsory the salt lake jobber can buy in tire east it he be likes just the same as the san francisco merchant arid and can ship his goods goodri by way nay of 0 san francisco to utah As to the third assertion asger tion it Is 0 e force of circumstances which Is beyond th the power of any n community to co control n arol 1 san francisco irom front her ciatur natural al position as it a seaport will at all times 3 command lower rates on imports than an all inland city like salt lake city and this Is one or of the inevitable conditions which cannot bo be changed and an advantage of TI chich aich wo we cannot be deprived priced UTAH JOBBERS FOOLED before the railroad conference W even went into session mr air curtis bald he found that the minds of the salt lake city jobbers had been poisoned by th the L representatives of the roads running into utah from the eist east E jie ile made a 1 canvass of most of the jobbers and they had one story to tell namely that san francisco jobbers would be enabled by lower rates to usurp their territory mr curtis argued to them of course that they could not suffer any worse from san francisco than they do now from chicago which at present has the lions share of 0 trade there while on the other hand san Francis oos cos entrance into the held field would t tend end to reduce the hi advantage of the chicago jobber sir mr curtis informed tho the commission that assistant general freight agat william sproule of the southern pacific AN who ho was in salt lale lake as his com banys representative at the col conference for had assured him of a reduction on oil a TO 70 cent basis from tills this city to ogdon ogden this reduction mr curtis thought would sooner or later operate to open the acs of salt lake jobbers seeing that it would make ogdon ogden tho the center of distribution for san fran ciscoe business in utah lie he had seen general freight agent smurr during the day he sold laid and ur mr smurr had assured him that he wast was 6 simply imply waiting the return of mr sproule who went north into montone montana after leaving utah mr sproule Is expected to be hero herf saturday the union pacific mr curtis added had threatened after the conference to reduce rates from the last east to utah so BO its as to offset the reduction to be made by the southern pacific tile the southern reduction would amount to the same rate per mile except for some horne lines of gods ghodsi as tile the rate from fit the e river to salt lake city there seems irks to he be no doubt now of the south southern rn pacifica determination to reduce r rates atos its freight department feels confident of being more moie than a match for the union pacific in any rate war the latter might attempt |