Show HIKE IN COAL RATES HELD UNJUSTIFIED Producers Claim Comparison Shows Rails in Utah Get Fair Profits A comparison of railroad income and md rates in Utah with income an and rates elsewhere does not justify th the railroads' railroads appeal for emergency tarIffs tar tar- His Iffs on intrastate coal traffic H. H W W. manager of the Traffic Service Ser Ser- vice bureau declared Friday in th the hearing before the thc state public util utilities tics ties commission He represented th the Utah Coal Producers association The Thc hearing is on the application of the steam and electric railroads o othe of the state for tor certain increases which would be effective until March 31 1933 The money raised from the in increased increased increased in- in creased rates would go to the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road credit corporation to be loaned to weak roads Rail Ran representatives stated their reasons for lor the increase when the hearing opened Wednes Wednes- day USES RATE YARDSTICK As a basis for comparison of rates Mr offered the Holmes anc and Hallowell maximum distance scale of rates He then developed his case caseby caseby caseby by showing how Utah intrastate coa coal rates compared with this scale and how intrastate rates of other states compared with it His final comparison comparison com corn parison was the charges between Salt Lake and points just inside the Utah line and those charges from Salt Lake to just outside the Utah line In all cases his percentage figures figures figures fig fig- ures were based upon the scale he had hac chosen for a yardstick According to Mr the rates on coal other than slack from Castlegate Castlegate Cas- Cas to various points in Utah are per cent of the H. H and H. H scale The rate to Salt Lake City is per cent of this standard The tariffs tariffs tariffs tar tar- iffs from coal conI centers in Montana to Helena is per cent on lump coal coat In this case the thc distance is miles or practically the same as from Castlegate Castlegate Cas- Cas to Salt Lake City The tariffs tariffs tariffs tar tar- iffs from Castlegate to Pocatello are ocr oer cent of the thc yardstick rates and to to Butte only 94 per pcr cent The Thc rate on slack from Castlegate to Logan Logan Logan Lo Lo- Lo- Lo gan is 73 per cent while the thc Interstate interstate interstate inter Inter- state rate to Preston Idaho is 71 per cent after an Increase has been granted by the interstate commerce commission HOLDS PROFITS GOOD Mr also presented figures to show that the net net rail railroad oad CP oper oper- r- r Income per mile o of ot road for lor lorall all roads operating west of Chicago was for the first 10 months of 1931 The net operating income per mile of road in Utah for the Dener Denver Denver Den Den- ver er Rio Grande Western Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles Salt Lake Oregon Short Line Southern Pacific ic Union Pacific and Western Pac Pacific f c was or about per mile above the western western west west- ern average for that period S. S H. H Love followed Mr to the stand for lor the sugar interests and arid Mr Love was followed by bv representatives representatives representatives rep rep- of the thc metal mining in in- |