Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-28 | Page 18 | O. S. L. Expected to Ask Boost in Grain Rates

EXPECTED 1 TO ASK BOOST IN GRAIN RATES Carrier Proposal Would In crease Seattle Preferential j j Over Portland 1 By fly y Associated I d CHICAGO April The 28 OrM Short Line railroad subsidiary Oregon Jl of ff the Union Pacific lines will ask for dra tic increases in grain rates rales in th the interstate ir in- commerce commission he hear J ing it was vias understood from today The proposals reliable J carrier intends to offer oHer it was unde Under t stood would raise the Seattle over Portland and andI virtUally to eliminate the former S export e ers as a market mat for southern Idaho terminal grow I California is the principal mark market for this area arel Arthur Gear Geary o the gram grain q growers of Washington Washingto prot i t cd ed to Examiners Hall and fiS j that counsel for market and cial in interests crests were commer much time in the hearin hearing helring consuming to too M Harry Ames of the tho Omaha gr grain 1 exchange and F. F B. B Townsend of Ih the Minneapolis chamber of commerce commerce e jumped at up once in denials I j have sat here herc for r six days Ar Ames said tand and questioned only one wit wit- ness The clash followed Gear ys y's s 's questioning ques ques- Honing of Southern Pacific c witnesses on operating revenue The Min inn neapolis representative e had protes protested the questioning as too lengthy Gentry Waldo member of the carriers carrier's car car- rier's ncr's rate committee was ready to 5 present evidence on transcontinental 1 rates for the western carriers A A. A B. B Enoch chairman of the car car- legal commil committee ee said the roads would not ask for increases cs on trans 2 continental hauls from Chicago west 9 to the P Pacific coast points point but would 1 j I seek to preserve the existing rates r