| Show 1 1 UTAH AUTOMOBILE AUTO O ASSOCIATION y r COMPLAINANT AGAINST HINES ENE Utah Oil Refining Company and Continental Oil Company Cont Control ol Market Market Mar Market ket Because of Shipping Rates Which h Are Unjust Unreasonable Unreason Unreason- n- n f able and Discriminatory Complaint Alleges Walker l lD D. D Hines and Nineteen Railroads Defendants I CHARGING CHARGING that a practical cal monopoly of the gasoline market exists in Utah between the thi Utah Oil Refining company and the Continental Oil company complaint charging Walker Valker D. D Hines director general of railroads and nineteen railroads with unjust unreasonable and discriminatory oil freight rates was completed today todal and will be filed at Washington D. D C. C with the interstate commerce commission The Utah Automobile association is the complainant The complaint with exhibits exhibits' showing comparative oil freight rates in the United States was completed today by H H. W. W manager of the Traffic Service Bureau of Utah and attorney attorney- for the automobile association Incommensurate freight rates between the crude rude and refined petroleum products is charged in the complaint as responsible forthe forthe for forthe the alleged monopoly said to exist in Salt Lake and other points poin s sin in Utah The complaint states That the Utah Oil Refining company operates in Salt Lake City a large oil refining plant where are refined refined refined re re- re- re fined great quantities of crude and gas oil shipped from the origin points and that the said Utah Oil Refining Refining- company distributes from i its Salt Lake Lake- City plant for cons con con- consumption s i at points In the state of Utah and at points in adjoining I states vast quantities of gasoline and other refined products of petroleum and sells its entire output of gasoline to the Salt Lake City plant of the I Continental Oil company That the rates for the transportation tion of petroleum crude gas and fuel oil versus the rates on on gasoline and other refined products gf of f petroleum I are adjusted lin in such such a a manner n as a as to give the said Utah Refining company I and Continental Oil company a practical practical practical monopoly of the gasoline market marlet in Salt Lake Lale City Ogden Provo and many other points in the state of Utah to the end that your our complainant complainant complainant com com- and other shippers are un unable unable unable un- un able except at a financial loss to ship gasoline in carload quantities And furthermore complainant states and believes it to be true that the said Utah Oil Refining comp company ny is now and has been shipping oil com corn commonly commonly known as tops which carry a high percentage of gasoline underrates underrates under underrates rates as provided for on gas oil RATES PROHIBITIVE Briefly the thc charge is narrowed I down to the allegation that rates on oni i crude and and refined oils are so i incommensurate incommensurate as to make It Impossible to ship refined products into the state I on a margin competitive with crude oil A general attack on alleged discriminatory discriminatory I freight ht rates Is made in the complaint which proceeds That the complainant further st states s that It Is I unjust and unreasonable for defendants defendants defendants defend- defend ants to exact and maintain rates for forI forthe I ithe the transportation of refined petroleum petroleum petroleum petro- petro leum products to points in Utah from fromin points in California Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and Wyoming that are except except except ex ex- to a small extent higher than those contemporaneously in force on I the same commodities from the Mid Mid- continent oil field and from Casper W Wyo o eastbound for similar distances that the old theory and practice of establishing and maintaining rates from the aforesaid points to Utah that are greatly higher than those In effect in other parts of the United States for similar distances is wrong wron in principle and is not contemplated by our statutes statutE'S and is therefore In violation thereof SIMILAR TO FREIGHT RATE The gasoline rate attack has some of the same lights of the general freight rate situation in which discriminatory rates against the Intermountain district district district dis dis- are allege alleged 1 In this it is charged that shipments from the Eastern states to the Pacific coast are t not commensurate com com- with shipments from the same points to Intermountain terminals terminals terminals nals as It costs nearly as much to Continued on page e 8 UTAH AUTOMOBILE Continued from page 1 ship commodities from Chicago to Salt Lake as from the same point to San Francisco In conclusion the complaint charges that the present tariffs are unjust and unreasonable and In violation of section 1 of the act to regulate commerce commerce com com- merce and in violation of section 10 of the federal control act The complaint will be set In print today and forwarded t to Washington to tobe tobo bo be officially filed before the before the Interstate commerce commission the first of next week A legal battle that will command In Interest interest in- in terest not only In Utah and the Intermountain Intermountain Inter Inter- entire counIs coun- coun mountain district but the ry is anticipated ted |
