Show I HEARD AT AI RATE HAlf HEARING HARlN Expenses in West Higher Than Elsewhere Plumhof Plum Plum- hof Declares Operating costs and expenses s In general are higher on railroads railroad serving servins mountain territory than they are in other sections therefore there there- tore fore a higher rate Is justi justified wit wrt- nesses nesse for fot the railroad companies declared at the hearIng before beCore Li L. J. J FI Flynn nn examiner for the interstate commerce commission at the federal fed fed- eral buildIng Saturday H. H T J. Plumhof general manager of the Oregon Short Line railroad testified tea tes- that because ot of heavy grads grades and battle against the elements in inthe inthe the winter inter months the cost ot of operations operations op- op were higher lIe also stated that the wage scale in thIs section i iwas was higher than in the states Other railroad witnesses whose testimony was intended to shoW jus- jus for the increased rates in inthis this territory included II H. B B. Prater I of the Oregon Short LIne and lIeber lIe lIe- her ber E. E Fell of the Santa Fe rail rail- road The hearing Is being held upon the application of the Utah Shippers Shippers' Ship Ship- pers' pers Traffic association to have ha havethe the railroads establish a reasonable through rate from Utah points to common points in Arizona and Nw Cw N. N W. W ot of the traffic traffic fic service bureau ot of Utah Is rep I resenting the shIpper |