Show NOTICE OF fREIGHT 1 RA RATE T E 11 I I ij fi f f i HIL T RISE t tt t j h 1 Pittsburg Finn Firm Advises SIt Salt Salt Salt- Lake City Buyers of ofA A Advance Ad vance van in Charge on Transporting Transporting Trans Trans- porting Pipe Patrons Pau-ons of ot the National Tube Tube compan company com corn pan pany Pittsburg Pa In Salt Lake City received advices by mail mall today from front that company that effective April 1 1914 pipe in carloads from Pittsburg to Salt Lake City Ogden and all Utah c common mm n points would be adv advanced 1 in freight rates 8 a 81 cents cents- per pounds Under the new freight rato rate it will cost the shipper 85 83 a n car more moro to ship to Salt Lake CU City than it will to o s ship ip the same car lot from flout Pittsburg to Los Los' LosAn An Angeles Cal Advances in frej freight bt rat rates s are also listed on pipe fittings in carloads an anin and andin andin in less than carloads carload's rain from Pittsburg rg Only Chicago Bates Rates Considered In the last hearing bearing held before the interstate commerce commission on the t-he suit suit brought by the traffic bureau of the the- Salt Lake Commercial club club the traffic bureau co complained only of ot rates from Chicago BO sO that nothing was done for Utah shippers with regard to rates from points cast east of Chica Chicago o. o When the tho traffic bur bureau au was given gl givena a a. favorable decision local shippers secured secured se cured a n more equitable rato rate from irom Chicago Chicago Chi Ohi- cao cago to Salt Lake Lako and Ut Utah h common points though a through gh rate rata was wa not granted at first Then the tho long and short naul caso wan wait tried and n d U in th Ins est establishment z zones zones- nes l. it o f rivan r. r aa na 1 Uio W md 1 fixed fLied as the per cent point The commission has haa ruled ruIe that Western Western West West- ern em shippers J may go eaSt as as far as the river on the per cent basis but that rates will grade Jrade upward beyond tho the ri river vr Tho Ili orate erato on pipe from Pittsburg to Los Los' Au Angeles approximately miles west or ox Salt Lake City is 18 65 85 cents The Tho rate from Pittsburg to Chicano 5 18 15 cents and from Chicago to Utah common points is 60 cents making the rate fr from m Pittsburg to Utah Utah common points 78 cents That is 13 cents higher high high- er than the rate from Pittsburg to Los Loa LosAn An Angeles Bates Rates Grade Upward Acting on the tho ruling that rates grade upward from the Missouri river Chicago Chi cago cage is grad graded cd at per cent Pittsburg per por cent and Now New York at 20 percent Taking this thie as a 0 basis baBis the rate rato from Chicago on pipe is 11 percent percent per percent cent of 65 cents or 74 14 c cents por per pounds Sounds or 3 33 cents less than local oca dealers are now required to tD pay The local traffic bureau says the r railroads are not satisfied with this but have o pushed the rate up to to 86 cents Th They y bay say that if it anything were needed to tosh sh show the injustice of the r railroads to toWe We Western tern shippers this should do it The Tho interstate commerce commission ion ionis is is on record in the matter of the establishment establishment of ot zone rates The Fhe he railroads Continued on page e 18 16 NOTICE OF Continued from page 1 1 ba have aavo o not atta attacked the justice of the rates fLed fixed by the commission for the various various zones but they ha have e attacked tho right of ot the commission to establish establish lish lick the tho zones The ease case is now pending before the supreme court of tho the United Unite States I Charge Unjust Treatment Local al shippers point to another ease case of what they say Eay is arbitrary aud and unjust unjust un un- just lust treatment of Western shippers Dunne bUrin buring the old days of tho the Utah Gentral Central Contral Gen Con Jon Ion long since gone out of business a arate arate arate rate of 25 5 i cents tho the pounds was wase e established on linoleum in ears cars between Salt Bait Lako Lake City and Ogden This rate is in effect today although the rato rate on linoleum in car lots lote from New NoW York t tSan tSan to- to San Francisco is only 1 The distance between New NoW York am and San Francisco on transcontinental freight lines is 2385 miles The distance dis dir tance between Salt Lako Lake City and O Ogden Ogdon den denis is seven thirty ven miles mile A According cording to a comparison of or tb the two freight rates however O Ogden is ie no more moro than 14 miles from New Now York If the local rate rats were made mado th the tho through h rate rato it would cost ct the shIpper 2255 for every pounds MUnd of ot he should hould snip iMp from New Kew ew York to San Francisco The Tho traffic bureau of the Commercial club dub has secured a suite of ot offices a at 30 Kearus building and ie is preparing for another battle batte with tho the railroads railroad b before ore the interstate commerce s- s lion don to cur what thc they term is Rustic for fOT the ami anil tho consumer in thi this field i |