Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-11-04 | Page 2 | Utah Pays the Freight Rate on Cloth Example to Coast $360; Here $500

AU PAYS THE FREIGHT 8 Z I 3 IA TE or ON ClOTH EXAMPLE i lE II i i II k fO COST COAST 3 3 O HERE Great quantities of cotton denim are used each year in the factories of Salt Lake and Ogden The quantities of cotton duck made into tents and awnings s sa a large number of small factories specializing in these articles Inh in Wah h is likewise e great Ore are bags bag feed ba bars bags s. s sleeping ba bags s and i any ny other articles are Ged d d in Utah with cotton duck a as material 11 The quantity of ot cotton blankets dress goods flannels sheets s consumed in Utah forms torms important item in the commercial e of ot the state Allot of these goods come under the thene theme ne me freight classification employed Ie making malting of ot freight rates j k The freight rate on a car carrying minimum of ot pounds of these eods eods is 90 cents the lOO pounds from pew York to San Francisco through J It lt Lake by all rail route JiW The rate on the same goods is T er lOO o pounds from New York to Salt ife Make AThe The he through charge is a car om a. a New York to Salt Lake but buti i railroads charge only per car haulIng it through Salt Lake ton to ton n Francisco t The lines Imes east cast of Salt Lake ge get as asir ir proportion of the freight charge Ithe transcontinental haul V hUe the lines west of Salt Lake get I The he lines east of ot Salt Lake lose by byson byson XI son of the fact that the c rate is not applied to Salt Salte l ike e Just the amount of money paid z Ithe lines vest west of Salt Lake or orl l' l 35 for every car handled on the rate The fact that a car is s hauled through It Lake to San Francisco for ss than though Salt Lake was its Is d declared by the Traffic 1 T i Bureau of Utah to be an in In- justice stice It will be called to the at- at J of ot the interstate commerce Commission at a hearing bearing to be held 1 Lake within the next few weeks at which an effort will be benade benade nade nade to secure application of trans continental terminal rates to ta Salt City and Utah common points