OCR Text |
Show BOAD WOULD RETAIN UlCiJEBE ; Official of Denver & Rio I Grande Testifies in Rate Hearing. i That Ut'ili is producing the bulk of the i I uoal trol&lil revenue of the Denver &. Uio ."iranIo railway, and that the coin- I ijany na anxious to retain that buniness, i ; wore point;; gained from Fred J. Wild, ! J Jr., traffic manager of that line, in the j j hearing 'yesterday before the state pub-. ; lie utilities cununlSKioit in Iho petition of ( Utfih m ilroud.s for an Increase of f,"i renin i a ton un coal rrlyht tariffs. Tiie infor- million was jrivcii in reply to ouextionn; put by ConirnissiorifM Warren fcitoutiiour ; in i-tu.s.s-examining Air. Wild. ) llr. Wild .saiil that if it were desired I to my ke coal t'reilit rev en no eawt and j went uf L'tah equal that derived irom tliis wl a to it would he necessary to raise the I rates east ami west fully i'i a ton. The I witness thought that in determining i freight rales piade wliould b considered, but not the density of traffic. Ej Mr. Wild testiiiod on direct examlna-, examlna-, tion in the morning that during the first ix months of HHY the coal brought into j Salt L.'iko City was within 7liu0 tons of ; the entire amount delivered here during , all of l!)lt. lo said that, freight tariffs , m Colorado were largely fixed by t he ; public utilities commission of that state I and many of them were higher than those ; now in voruc in Utah, together with the increase now asked. , In answer to Commissioner Warren ( Stoutnour. it. was stated hy Mr. Wild lliat i t lie coal ratn trom Keminerer, Wyo., to M- Moriton, a dislam-o of ninety miles, was 1,Ji SI.HO and that the eharse from Rock ; .Sprimcs, Wyo., to iMonson, eighty miles KrcH.Uir distance, was also SI. 1)0 a ton. i In LUah, the witness s;nd, the rate from j Thompson's to Piovo, 7(J miles, Mas 1.54), , while l he rate Irom Helper to Salt Lake City, VZ miles, was $l.iio a ton. ; VI. Leverich of the Denver & Rio I Ova ndc dispatcher's office, formerly su--: porintendeiit of the Butte division of the . ( i Ireat Norlhorn railroad, was the first Mllj witness of the morning session. Me testi-Ma. testi-Ma. 1 ied an to grades and cost of opera tion I,,, , on the line between the Sand Coulee l mines and Butte, Mont. |