Show Passenger Rates To Coast Puzzle Traveling Public a And Stump Expert Railroad ticket agents in Salt Lake are m muddled Rate experts are stumped The he traveling public pub- pub Uc lic is recalling the old days when hen there was rate late competition in rail ail roads It is concerned with what It is paYing paying for for Its tickets from roni Salt Lake to to the Pacific coast And it is all all- alI b brought o about by br n new w passenger rales in the West ordered by th the interstate te commerce commission commissionS to take tak effect on FebI February February Feb Feb- I 25 25 and ande extended teri d to March 1 for all railroads I r running through Arizona Nevada and New Mexico I An n inquisitive Saturday Satur Satur- day jott Jotted d down the irregularities that he found existing in passenger fares from the various railroad offices jn in I the city They were from rom Salt Salt L Lake ke to to San Francisco via vla the ir Western Pacific 30 87 from froni Ogden to San Fran Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco via the die Southern Pacific from Salt Sail Lake to Sa ran ran- cisco via the Southern Pacific SOME DISCREPANCIES The feature of the he rate tangle Is that a person can an buy a ticket from Salt Lake to Ogden for over the Oregon Short Line and then bu buy ticket a a. from Ogden to to San Francisco over o the Southern Pacific for 30 87 making a total of Yet a person wishing to buy a ticket from Salt Lake to San Francisco VIa Tia the Oregon Short Line or Denver Denver Rio Grande railroad railroad rail rall- road and Southern Pacific through Ogden must pay j i A person from front Pocatello can buy buya a ticket to Salt Lake for 61 I Ia and when he arrives here buy a ticket to Los An Angeles eles for 36 the rate announced b by the Union I I I I I I I Pacific making a total of I But Rut If he buys his ticket from irom rom Pocatello straight through t td to Los Angeles he must pay 47 57 I ADJUSTMENT COMING The whole disarrangement of ot rates has been brought about according according ac ac according cording to railroad d men bec because use they have not had time to comply with the order of the Interstate commerce commission granting a maximum rate rate of of 36 cents per mile In Nevada Arizona arid New and New Mexico texico Pass Passenger nger rate rates t f from om Salt take Lake taketo to San Fr will be equalised I 1 when tho the new tariffs have b been en examined it was was Announced by the tile various railroad officials here Sat Sat- This means that in a comparatively comparatively com corn short time probably a it afew I few days all lines will charge the same from Salt Lake to San Fran Francisco Frai cisco deco as It is understood Interstate Interstate interstate Inter Inter- state commerce commissions commission's ruling ruling ruling rul rul- rul- rul ing makes mandatory mandator according to local railroad officials |