Show r > r > i RATE CASE HEARING HARRIMAN HARRIMAN ROADS REST THEIR CASE AFTER PRESENTING MASS OF STATISTICS 0 f 1 Gould Lines Also Submit Their Side J M t f of Case After Which Hearing Is Adjourned Until October f 29 for Final Argument Salt Lake CityThe Utah rate < ease before tho interstate commerce commission will bo concluded October r J Octo-ber 29 when a quorum of tho entire < + t commission will meet in Salt Lako oJ again to hear final arguments which will be presented by Attorney C C Dey for the Utah shippers and Attorney u pfl Attor-ney F C Dillard for the railroads a Testimony was concluded on Tuesday t Tues-day when most of tho attorneys and witnesses from tho east loft for their lit y 1 J homes The Harriman lines closed their t I ease before the commission when the representative of the Harriman In terests presented a mass of tabulated tabulat-ed statistics showing how tho freight business of the west has grown in the last ten years and apparently making a play for public favor with if j statements showing how much the F t 1 I flR street railway company of Salt Lake tt ti baa paid for supplies It was claimed that the tabulated i f4 evidence presented by the Harriman 3 lines cost 200000 in clerk hire and o il one of the men representing the people fj peo-ple of Utah at the hearing remarked i k that the railroads would got it back In less time than It took to prepare Cri the statement 1 Probably the most Important point brought out In behalf of the Utah 4 i i shippers was the admission from the f1i railroads that the transcontinental bo rates were remunerative inasmuch J as they paid a profit over cost of service ser-vice and applied something to fixed 1 charges < Tho testimony on Tuesday consisted consist-ed mainly of masses of evidence con 4 eelIliagrtileyCOetofkCAAt1YCtiaaf + 00st t ma F of reproduction operation and main tcnanco ot the Denver Rid Grande railroad and figures on every conceivable conceiv-able subject connected with the con 0 41 Btructlon and operation of the Gould V lines In connection with the evi j s I dence regarding the value of the lines Mr Babcock suggested that everything r f every-thing but tho atmosphere had been t Included and one of tho railroad men suggested that nearly everything excepting ex-cepting the dictionary had been sub 1l mltted as1 evidence by one side or the I 1 other in the present case I J One of the most important developments develop-ments of the days testimony according t4 m r accord-ing to the Utah shippers was theo the-o > admission by Fred Wild Jr general rl t a freight agent for the Denver Rio Grande that tho application of the reduced re-duced rates asked for by the Utah shippers would result in a loss of only 1327000 a year to the Denver Rio Grande railroad r FROM SCOW TO PALACE Copyright uo j tOne t Ma j PUl70NBClE ONT a y k t5enw r One Hundred Years of Steamboat Development I 1 |