Show I N SAVED AV J Tg UJ A A AYA YA BATE A If fl T I IS W WON N UTAH came into its own today The fig fight ht for justice justic on freight rates m made de by the manufacturers fa c carid tur s aI arid and I merchants r of this S. S state has been crowned q with victory The he railroads have gone down n td to defeat defeat t in the 11 g greatest greatest- h tattle afia ever ver er ersta sta fa ed li wherein i n J the r rights tile of f the people were we were e- e enc concerned nc 1 d A A report from Washington m- m today said that n t ate merce merce commission had decided that hat the report report- of the examine h r V v Ala tc f invest investigated ted the intermountain rate case c ase had been adopted This Tills report provides that no rate to Utah points shall b bg bp p g greater reater than to Pacific coas coast points points from from points east of the Missouri To the average citizen the plain report of the interstate commerce commerce commerce com com- merce commission will not be fully understood He will however in a comparatively short period be able to recognize ze what the benefits benefits benefits bene bene- fits are that will accrue accrue to Utah as a result of or th the findings of the federal body In a nutshell the order of the commission means that discrimination nation in freight rates is at an end For years it has been cheaper to slip goods from the E East st to Pacific terminals such as San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland than to Salt Lake although this city is miles or more nearer the place of shipment H. 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W traffic manager of th the Traffic Service bure bureau u uI I of Utah said that the full importance of the order could not be beI properly estimated at present He however said that he felt safe I in saying that the order would mean th that t Utah's merchandising business would be increased ased at least a year Decision Is Climax to year Nine Fight Merchants' Merchants and manufacturers ers in this state have waged an incessant fight for nine years on on this this proposition They have expended ex ex- expended many thousands of dollars being determined to provide every factor that would aid them in battling for Utah Unfair freight rates rates' of the past have been the stumbling block to Utah's progress Several organizations have attempted to get industries to locate here but In vain In nearly every instance th the manufacturers have asked questions as to freight rates When informed that the rate to the Pacific coast was cheaper cheap r than to Salt Lake although the distance to this city was hundreds of miles leSs they sought other fields for their operations In nearly every instance the manufacturer looking for a location here traveled further west and located in San Francisco Los Angeles or other coast points By so doing he lie was was enabled to not only get the coast trade but also to invade Utah's rightful trading territory The manufacturers on the coast as a consequence of the discriminative discriminative discriminative dis dis- dis- dis criminative freight b bEast rates were enabled to receive goods from the East and then reship them into Utah's trading territory depriving the merchants and manufacturers here of doing business in their logical fields fields' All thi this is now removed Salt Lakes Lake's trading trading territory territory is extended extended ex ex- tended westward from to miles The merchants and manufacturers man man- manufacturers here will be able be-able able to wrest trade from from- the Pacific coast houses that will result in an increased revenue to this state of about bout a year 1 High Cost of Living May Be Reduced In addition there is a bare l possibility that the high cost of living here will be slightly reduced d. d The decision is of the greatest importance to this community and its its' significance ance cannot b be over over- looked The decision means that i manufacturers will now be attracted here reo New industries are bound to spring up up- for Salt S Salt lt Lake has an even chance to compete with San Francisco and Los Angeles for th the first time in history With the coming coining of they the t new industries s many more workers twill have to be Manufactories and lid jid stor stores N w r M. M Continued Continue d on page 3 7 h I 1 1 t 1 JH H. H WINS TINS GRE GREAT T RATE ATE i CASE VICTORY I Continued from om page 1 1 so need extra help as the business territory is expanded who ho have followed the fight in the last nine years declare m means ans that the population of Salt Lake will be doubled or Doubled within the next ten years h B order of the commission in short is is s that it m means eons that ake has at last come into its own owns San Francisco and Los Loss Ih Shave s have ve been built up at th the expense e of Salt Lake But for forand forand forand and discriminatory rates that have prevailed here Salt Lake Suld have a population on as big bi g if not bigger bi than than- San order not only strikes the greatest blow ever eve delivered t t he railroads but also knocks business out of the co coast st I Ig I g enters and puts it where it belongs in belongs in the intermountain 1 I It 1 y he terms of the order the freight rate in no instance will willa a ater er from points east of the Missouri to Salt Lake than to r fancisco tisco or other coast terminals I Ir mile nhe J he past the reverse reverse order of o things has prevailed Here pal illustration If the Kearns in Salt Lake had d Co Constructed strutted in San Francisco the freight rate rake on structural could have been less than here If the Kearns building m t today or tomorrow this discrimination would be l his is j just st st. one item and thousands s upon thousands of cases similar nature co could cold ld be cited j f ir freight rates have stifled business expansion in Salt They have stopped the city progressing as it should have I Iyer Ever yer since the first railroad was built in this state Salt Lake LakeI I ew en tt at the mercy and throttled by the railroads he day of deliverance has come seventy years to a day th first Mormon pioneers entered the land of promise f ogre QT e on this Pioneer day Utah can doubly celebrate All Ail All through the fight said Mr we have contended 1 Jno no case should the rate from the East to the Western terminal be less than the rate to an intermediate point It is apparent nat hat l at the commissions commission's view by its order is the same as that intermountain jobber The he present Western limit at which our jobbers can compete nose hose lose of Pacific coast points coast points is Wells Nev This decision will lr four our ur territory to Winnemucca more than miles further Similar extensions of the intermountain jobbing territory will a de on other transcontinental lines maving waving Saving to tois rt is ls' ls Effected 1 f additiOn to the increasing of Utah's business a material Kp o a the people of this country in the prices paid for goods goodse e effected The decision means more to this section In a as s way than any development of the last decade |