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Show GRADED FREIEH11 BATES Wr H. W. Prickett Prete Case of Utah ShiPpet) at Hearing. Says Salt Lake Should P Eighty-six Per Cent of Transcontinental Tarif ' H. W. Prickett, manager of tbst fic Bureau of Utah, yesterday Wia the case of the Utah shippers freight rate hearings being coi-beforc coi-beforc the examiners of tho im, commerce commission at the fJ building. Mr. Prickett was on tlsr ncss stand during, a greater. pa:; d day. llis direct examination J pletcd and cross-examination tr-j gin Monday morning at 9:30 o'tW -Mr. Prickett presented a propcS a graded freight rate to apply uj eastern points and Salt Lake, co percentage table baaed on the 3 distance between the designate! , em cities and San Francisco,' into consideration the proportional tance of Salt Lake from the en points as compared with the oa to San Francisco. 1 He based his case upon the M that in Transcontinental freight! ments Salt Lake should pav eioj per cent of the transcontinentsi i from ' w York to the coast; $ four per cent from Pittsburg, eii throe per cent from Cincinnati, eij one per cent from Chicago, sen eight per cent from Bock Islas;, entv-two per cent from Ornalu, sixty-three per cent from Dona ! Present Injustice Pointed ft Predicating his case upon the; ures Mr. Prickett introduced iro record a mass of .figures and UN show that the present system dH3 rates, 'whioh put iralt Lake ct i with Pacific coast points in Vrmu nental shipping, is unjust. He that the proposed rates introdwd the Utah Traffic bureau, folia closely the recommendations of the trict freight traffic committees! Portland and San Francisco, paj I'orr.rnerce coiis, with information upon which til rate changes That would' be brm able for Salt Lake shippers. Just before the conclusion of b timony he stated that there to existing rate violations of the sects the in: -om:ner:e reiu which provide That rates shall ij higher to Pacific coast and- wes points than they are to poiatg z i intermediate territory. He w i ported in This statement by J. B.& b ell. a 1 1 o m e y f o r the petitioicf lennjediate Rate association, wkji ihaT There are raTes to Montana ji also in violation of the article. Mr. Prickett submitted a j rate of $3.4o y-:-v hundred potscsf class freighT from Xew York M Lake, the same rate as that prop by the freight committees. He ea -sized thaT the case of the V: i pers is not that present rates in reasonable, but that they are diss, inatorv in a comparative wise. Henry Thurtell, examiner of um id state commerce commission, IsURlj Mr. Prickett on several occasions :c i? lion him. At one point he s&:c m good many things proposed tr 1 Prickett eouU not be accomplished the pleadings. Ho said that m transcontinental class rates are i existence and have not been proa they should not b changed vafa blanket scheme such as suggested Prickett unless important discrtniail could be shown. Objection Answered. ' Atto:-'.-.-s for the raiiroaos ak ored to show that the appHati Mr. Prickett 5 proportionate rte show a reduction in commodity mtes I Chicago to Omaha: Mr. Prictea a ;'.-. read from his prepared tabw show that rates would not be .-M as charged. The witness read a list of- pni shipped from eastern territory to! ..ike ;:"..v:strics and merchants the broad variety of the coaajji handled in this region. He sw1 the present ton-mile revenue of o"l roads on transcontinental business J coast is highly profitable, utj ai the car-mtle revenue to t tj on Sal; Lake shipments is hitter! that on coast shipments. In roOA to :t (;-.:i-s;:en t" H- A dre.tt. traffic assistant to the resiMfc rector of railroads at ChwegM i--.-w.-tt sa that 'a- regarded t!.Sij transcontinental rates to the PacfflC v '- c '-. --' too r-isrrt Mr. Vrtokett concluded his diresj tinionv av reading reports u rtj earnings to show that th." westenJj are in better condition than those -cast, and said that the weatenw need revenue less than do the "J roads. He had previously poimec . , charged ecr J" ei :oa.:.- t'-.ati are charged in tnt - the morning session T21 Introduced to prove that WUnaBJ Adoo. fcTrmerly director 8nML"J roads, and Edward Chambers, at" traffic for the railroad adminlstrewv 'vored the grading of rates- , . I eonard Way. traffic expert Idaho utilities commission, was fi durlns the mornlot .. cr 'SS-CNan-.ination, Attorney! J- - N of Portland, '''re. chamber c-. merce and Seth Mann of the SJ ' ,- see chamber of commerce in.' . - v- ;;. v t -e Pacific cot;, v .- . - i-.-.s intermountain shippers. t |