Show RATE DECISION TO AID Grain Growers Benefit Threat Removed From Mining Mining Min Mm- ing Ind Industry stry More money in the thet pockets of f Utah and arid Idaho Idalo grain farmers an and anI removal of the thre threat t of an added burden on Utah's great metal meld mining industry are seen as the effect of two interstate commerce commission decisions Wed Wed- nesda In ruling on two parts of a nationwide nationwide nation nation- wi wide i general genera inquiry into nto rail rate structures es on cl class s c commodities the commission 1 1 1 Instituted a general downward downward down down- ward revision of western freight rates on grain and grain products products products prod prod- effective next April 1 I estimated esti estimated estimated mated to reduce present costs to grain shippers by an an- Conditions Condition Considered J 2 Decided not to recommend to railroads any revision of tariffs tar tar- iffs ms on ores and and- concentrates of ot nonferrous metals and on copper lead and zInc Inc because of or existing conditions in the industry In the grain case case the I Ice C C in general general general gen gen- eral reestablishes a structure set up in a previous s order that greatly reduced reduced reduced re re- re- re rates rales on grain and grain gram products prod but which was vas set aside b by the United States s supreme preme court on a carriers' carriers appeal The case had been reopened Scores of interests were parties to the grain rain case which w was pending for eight y years ars Less Leu Than Maximum l In the metal mining case the corn com com commission mi mission Sion found that rates now charged from to and between points in the mountain Pacific region are less than maximum reasonable rates but not less than minimum reasonable rates H. H W W. local transportation counsel who appeared at an I C C hearing in Salt Lake City Gil was as informed informed in in- formed by his Washington correspondent correspondent corres corres- Minimum reasonable rates h be he explained ex cx- arc aie te tev v voluntary ones nes under hii jl railroads are ie able to move commodities white while maxim maximum m reasonable rea rca charges are those under which carriers can operate at a fair profit profil Mr said that at the hear hear- Continued on Pair Page Two RATE DECISION TO AID UT AHNS I Grain Growers Benefit Threat Removed From From Mining Mining Min Mm- ing Industry S Continued rom F Page Pue e One On lags ings railroads did not advocate re reo visions The commission ruled the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad which now makes rates on or ores 8 and concentrates on the basis of oC gross values should use uce net values It also found railroads are justified in maintaining ex existing sting rates lower than the maximum to meet competition tion by motor trucks and water car 1 tiers Benefits to Utah and Idaho grain farmers were seen een in the grain order b by means of ot a higher net profit re rc suiting from lower freight charges However it may mean more costs to buying grain it was explained since farmers selling seJling di di- to would naturally seek the increased net profit they would obtain if It they shipped the grain at the reduced rates I While no new schedules had been received by local interests it was believed be- be one section of ot the order prescribing pre prel scribing a rate of 26 cents per pounds from Colorado to Kansas City a reduction of ot 7 cents will mean meana a corresponding cut in rates to Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas sos City from Utah and Idaho since rates from the latter two states are based on a differential over those from Crom rom Colorado Unchanged Westward While a substantial reduction in rates to the east cast loomed it appeared there here may be no cuts from Utah and Idaho to California and north Pacific coast points the decision prescribing that hat those tariffs remain unchanged edThe ed The decision doubtless means th that t Utah and Idaho farmers will be benefited benefited bene- bene despite the fact there seems to tobe tobe toe be e no reduction in rates to the Pacific Pa Pa- chic coast H H. W. W lo local al transportation counsel who represented represented the Ogden grain exchange Inthe in inthe the he original c case se announced Generally speaking the reductions ordered in m Wednesdays Wednesday's decision arc are not so great as those directed in the original decision which was was set aside but Mr said the reduction reduction re re- re in to Kansas City rates apparently is Js greater than the original one which he recalled prescribed prescribed pre pre- scribed a rate of ot about 28 cents Reduction Here Seen The dispatch said the present parity of rates to Omaha and Kansas City from rom the Colorado group is to be continued which Ernest D D. Salm Saim secretary secretary sec see of the Utah Citizens' Citizens Rate Hate association association association as as- in interpreted as meaning Utah and Idaho rates to Omaha also will be reduced if the differential over Colorado holds Reviewing the eight year old year old case Mr explained the original decision enforcing substantially lower grain rates was given July 1 I 1930 but was only in effect a few Jew months before the high court ourt set it aside on grounds the commission had erred by not considering the effect of or the depression on railroads d during the time that elapsed between hearings The old rates were reinstated as a result and Wednesdays Wednesday's order is the result of ot reopening the case fixed Too Low LowThe LowThe LowThe The dispatch said the commission found that its first decision fixed rates too low in the southwest an and intermountain territories Mr estimated that under the original decision taking a figure of bushels of wheat moving yearly from Utah and Idaho to the east cast farmers would have been saved approximately by the re reo re- re In the original de decision the commission com corn mission dealt with export rates but butin butin butin in Wednesdays Wednesday's order the commission commission commis commis- sion Lion left such rates to t. the discretion of ot the carriers carrien in view of ot a supreme court decision overruling another export export ex ex- ex port case and a present lack o of export export export ex ex- ex- ex port movement The commission Wednesday ruled as it did in the earlier decision that corn oats and arid other oilier coarse grains shall be placed on the same rate basis as wheat and flour Coarse grains heretofore have taken a lower rate Transit Stops Limited The decision limited transit stops stops stops made for milling grain with grain with without out separate charge to two In its new decision the commission considered claims of both carriers and farmers The former cited reduced reduced re re- re- re revenues the commission acceding acceding acceding ac ac- ac- ac ceding to to- to toa a contention that the first revision was too low and the farmers farmers farm farm- arm arm- ers claimed the railroads should bear beara a share of ot a common catastrophe the commission instituting numerous reductions from existing rates |