Show RATE HEARING VITAl TU TO SAlT l LAKE IE SHIPPERS Relief Asked Against Section Section Sec Sec- tion of Interstate Commerce Com Corn merce Act Claimed as Discriminatory Measure The paramount rate case of ot the coming year and one which vitally vital vital- ly affects the interests of ot the shippers shippers ship ship- pers In the IntermountaIn territory especially Salt Lake will be De launched at the opening hearing before Examiner M. M A. A Pattison of the interstate commerce commission commission commis commis- sion slon on January 2 2 at Chicago The case involves olves the application of or the carriers for relief from the fourth section of the Interstate commerce act which provides that the carriers carriers carriers car car- must petition the commission to publish a higher rate for tor a short haul within a long haul II If W. W Of ot the Traffic Service Bureau of ot Utah was appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed representative of ot the In Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate In- In Rate nate association today to be present at all the hearings hearing and will leave with W. W S S. S McCarth McCarthy McCar McCar- th thy president of ot the association for Chicago on December 28 to at attend attend attend at- at tend the opening hearing WATER COMPETITION The application for th the fourth section relief which the carriers are seeking on many commodities Is made mado to compete with the water competition to the Pacific coas coast from the East Kast which would mean a higher freight rate late to the IntermountaIn Intermountain intermountain Inter- Inter mountain territory than to the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- coast The Thc proposal of or the can carriers lers asks ask's for the following rates on commodities from Chicago to Salt SaIt Lake and to San Francisco according to information secured a atho at atthe atthe the tho Traffic Service Bureau here hereOn On bolts nuts horseshoes plate steel and wire nails charge on c carload carload car car- r- r load based on tho the minimum weight to Salt SaIt Lake to San FrancIsco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco paper bags to Salt Lake to San Francisco soup to Salt Lake Lale to San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco wall paper to Salt Lake to San Francisco writIng writIng writing writ- writ Ing paper to Salt Lake to San Francisco ammunition to Salt SaIt Lake to San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco dry goods and knit goods to Salt Lake to San Francisco HEARINGS FIXED The rate case which has f for o many years ears been one of ot the chief chie sources of ot dissension between carriers carriers carriers car car- and shippers In the Intermountain Intermountain intermountain Inter- Inter mountain West will continue for two months closing In New York on February 18 The date of ot the i ar are as follows January 2 2 Chicago January 14 Salt Lake I January 17 17 Butte January 19 Boise January 21 21 Spokane January January January Jan Jan- I uary 23 Portland January 28 I Reno ieno January 29 San Francisco February 2 Fresno February 9 Phoenix and February 18 New NewYork New York Mr who will represent the tho Utah shippers in the case said today that if it the tho application was granted It will deprive Salt SaIt Lake of ot the tho distribution disi of the commodities ties advocated for an area of ot square miles or an n area larger than the state of ot Utah In makIng makin making mak mak- in ing his defense for the case ho he quotes the following statement from a ruling of ot the interstate commerce commission made in 1911 in the case of ot the city of Spokane vs ys the Northern Pacific railroad BUILD UP INTERIOR To a disinterested observer It would seem to be In the true In Interest interest interest in- in terest of these transcontinental lines which begin at the Missouri rl river rive to make rates which would build up the Interior points as against the coast The haul to these points is shorter and less ex ex- ex pensive The Tho distribution from these points is easier easler but above all the traffic which is created at such a n point belongs to the rail line which creates it It while the traffic which is fostered upon the coast Is the prey of ot every vessel which sails the sea Carriers in the fu future future future fu- fu ture will vill doubtless adopt this od and will voluntarily make malte rates to interior points like Spokane which will enable those locations to compete with the coast cities The defense which has been de developed developed developed de- de for the tho case against the carriers has been crystallized In Inthe Inthe inthe the last few days here by a conference conference conference con con- ference of ot traffic officials official from various points In tho the intermountain West Vest |