Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-12 | Page 20 | Utahns to Protest Advance in Rates

UTK 10 PROTEST AMCEJ RATES Party Will Appear at San Francisco Against Projected Pro-jected Increase. j Accompanied by members of the Utah Canners' association, H. "W. Prickett, manager man-ager of Hie traffic service bureau of Utah, will leave on Friday for San Fran-ciscu Fran-ciscu where, on December 16, lie wiil appear ap-pear at a joint meeting of the canners and the Portland freight traffic committee commit-tee of the railroad administration, opposing oppos-ing the ! roposed advance In freight rates oii canned vegetables from Utah points to Pacific coast points, of l- cents per hundred pounds, and opposing the proposed pro-posed advance of cents per hundred pounds on canned fruits and fish, including includ-ing sardines, front Pacific coast points to points in Utah. Tf the proposed advances ate made effective, ef-fective, according to Mr. Prickett. the handicap on Utah canners will amount to ?2..VJ a ton as against their competitors in Colorado and Wisconsin. At tite present pres-ent time the rales from Utah, Colorado and Wisconsin are ton a relatively fair basis, but lo increase the rates from Ttali. without relatively Increasing the rates from .'olorado and Wisconsin will, to a great extent, limit Utah's production nf canned goods and place a dumper on an industry which has been increasing steadily, Mr. Prickett says. In assigning a reason for the proposed increase in freight rates on canned goods, the Portland freight rate traffic tommmit-tec tommmit-tec declares that the rate of 50 cents per hundred founds on canned fruits and vegcla hies, in, effect prior to June -a. was originally established to tal;e care of a surplus qua utitv of canned goods in Utah, which also caused a depression In t he ra te on the sa me commodities east-Uounii. east-Uounii. Tli is condition, it is maintained bv i iie - committee, no longer exists. 'Utah wholesalers are vitally interested in rales affecting caJincd fruits and sardines sar-dines from Pacific coast points to Utah, and in their behalf Mr. prikett. will op-pnse op-pnse Hie proposed increase. The rates fi-tim coast points to Utah. Mr. Pricket I declares, are now relatively too high, compared com-pared with rates from Pacific coast points to eastern lermiiials. While in San Francisco Mr. Prickett will also bring up before the committee the matter of the proposed increase in freichl rates on news print paper and other commodities.