Show DIffERENTIAL SURE TO REACT SAYS AY Traffic Service Bureau Head Declares Coal Operators Operators Operators Op Op- Op- Op of Utah Are Discriminated Discriminated Dis Dis- criminated Against i Declarations that the present dif differential differential differential dif dif- of 50 60 cents per ton against coal shipped from Crom the Castle Caste Gate Gate- district in Utah In favor of coal shipped from the Rock Kemmerer Springs district to points north and west of McCammon and that the Inclusion of the tho Kemmerer and Rock Springs mines In one rate group in Interstate traffic Is unjust and prejudicial to the Castle Gate Gata district were made in fn a brief filed flied today by the Traffic Service Bureau of Utah In behalf of the Utah coal operators in the rehearing of the Western Vestern coal case The Tho rehearing was held at Salt Lake January 10 10 11 and 12 by Examiner M. M H. H Pattison Pattison Patti Patti- son of oj the interstate commerce commission com corn mission i Mr Ir in fn hi his hiS' argument presents the statements that the differential of 50 cents Is Injurious to the Utah coal operators and will I ultimately react to the benefit of the Wyoming coal operators de despite despite despite de- de spite the fact that in 1921 the Castie Castle Castle Cas Cas- tle tie Gate district supplied per per percent percent J cent of Its total supply t tp the Northwest as compared with 25 2522 22 per cent of the total Kemmerer- Kemmerer Rock Springs supply to the same saraa territory PRIOR DIFFERENTIALS Previous to the interstate commerce commerce com corn merce commission decision in October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober 1923 granting the cent 50 blanket differential in fn favor of the Wyoming mines the rates v varied to different points in fn the Northwest I some places the differential in fa faI favor fa- fa avor a- a I vor of Wyoming Y mines being heing as aa high as 80 cents and at other places Pocatello for instance the rate were we're w vre re on a parity parit In the brief Mr explains that the No Northwest dealers favor faor Utah coal because Its supply is la constant and not subject to Inconsistencies inconsistencies Incon incon- as recorded the past few years ears In the W Wyoming oming mine eries cries He lIe adds that If ft the Northwest Northwest Northwest North North- west were made dependent for Its Ita supply of oC coal from the southern Wyoming mines it would experience serious coal shortages such as ex cx ex- ex isted prior to 1913 Mr vIr 11 rickett declares declare th that t the price to the consumer In the Northwest t will be increased because the the dealers would absorb tho the difference difference difference dif dif- dif dif- ference between the differential on the W Wyoming oming coal and the Utah coal CONSISTENT In a network of statistics Mr shows that coal rates should be equal from Castle Gate Utah and Rock Springs Wyo 30 to points n nOrth rth and west vest of ot mon He bases his claim on the fact that hat the u. u mat a me U distance instance of or Ut haul is 13 IS u. u mat a me U distance instance of or Ut haul is 13 IS equal from both places and that the operating costs are In favor of ot Utah mines He admits that Kemmerer Kemmerer Kem Kern mines which are two ninety-two miles west of Rock flock Springs should be granted a lower rate to the Northwest than Rock Springs or Utah mines Mr asks for the Inclusion sion of the Thompson coal field In Inthe Inthe inthe the same rate district as the Castle CastleGate CastleGate CastleGate Gate district for shipments of coal to the Northwest Thompson in seven ninety miles from Castle CastleGate CastleGate Gate and the rate Is higher to the Northwest yet Rock Springs which Is two ninety-two miles mUes east of Kemmerer Kemmerer Kem Kern Is in fn the same district and I has equal rates to the Northwest he remarks |