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Show NEWS OMlAILItOAi How Salt Lake City is Understood Abroad on the Question of Transportation. A RAILROAD MEN'S CLUB. Other Items of General and Local Bail-way Bail-way News Gathered from Various Vari-ous Sources. The following dispatch from Chicago to various papers will show how Salt Lake City is uuderstood abroad on the transportation question: A communication communi-cation received by the officials of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiucey and the western roads announces that the board of trade of Salt Lake City has resolved to patronize no railroad hereafter except ex-cept such as is approved by a committee commit-tee appointed for that purpose. The resolutions allege that Salt Lake City is discriminated against in regard to both passenger and freight rates, claim- t .L . .1 , . . 111:11 mo nues now in iorce are not materially lower than they were twenty years ago, and calling attention to the fact that the city has doubled its population popu-lation and threbled its transportation business in the last four years. The railroads are requested to put Salt Lake City upon the basis of terminal rates, as fixed by tho Transcontinental association asso-ciation in tariffs 20 and 27, adopted June 18, 1800, and subsequent tariffs. A demand ia made in the circular that passenger rates from the Missouri river to Salt Lake City and return be $4(5.50, and the one way $35; that the rate from Denver for the round trip be $30, and for one way, t22; from Lead-ville, Lead-ville, $25 for the round trip, 820 for ono way; from Grand Junctiou, $20 for the round trip and $18 one way. The petitioners peti-tioners further ask that mileage tickets be sold at the rate of 2J cents per mile, good throughout the territory covered by the systems entering the citv, including includ-ing Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, and that local rates be readjusted on a basis advantageous to Salt Lake City. The managers of the interested roads say that the cl aims of the Salt Lake board of trade are in some cases unjust. Passenger rates from Chicago to Salt Lake are $"i2 for lirstclass, $37.50 for second class, and $07.50 for the round trip. To California points they are $72.50 for first class, $57.50 second class, and $100 for the round trip. The managers say that a carload of passengers is taken to California for every passenger taken to Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake City people get all the benefit of the California tourist passing through there. The Western Freight association has taken up no matters of general interest. inter-est. Tho western and northwestern divisions met and considered a number of subjects. It was agreed to continue the present practice ef permitting re-consignment re-consignment of coal at interior point. Regarding the basis of rates between St. Louis and points in Iowa, Minnesota Minne-sota and Dakota, a special committee was appointed to submit recommendations recommenda-tions at the next regular meeting of the association. It was agreed to make the rate on pRcking house products from Sioux City to points in Louisiana and Texas i cents above tho Chicago rate. It was decided to make a rate or 25 cents per 100 pounds on packing house products from St. Paul to Ohio river points. |