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Show CMPtfllFB 1 IS HELD BLOVJTO UTAH BUSINESS Prickett Tells I..C C. In-. In-. ' creased ; Transportation Cost Would Surely Result . From Two-Line Haul WAKHINdTON. Nov. ' . Careful Inveatlgatlon Into tha aituatloa which would develop by separation of tha Kouthera Psoitis and Central ParKi ayatema hava ronvlnoed bualnaaa la-tereeta la-tereeta within tha atate of Utah that harm would remit to that territory from enforcement of tha separation . decree of tha auprama court. H. W. Prlrkett. expert reoreeenttns? tha atal goveramant and the chambers af some marc at Halt Lake and Provo, dee dared today before the Intaratata oota meres eommlaaion. Tha general result of an Immediate-divorcement Immediate-divorcement would be Increased trans portation cost a restriction of the mare . ketlng area and elimination of tmw petition ao tar as Utah la concerned, according to Mr. Piirkett'a view. The Increased transportation costs would logically result In Increased rales, he aald. because Utah traffic moving ta) I'acirie coast point a would have 14) travel over two separate Unas. Tha marketing area for Utah products prod-ucts on the Pacific coast would shrink, he added, because af the two-Una haul which would replae tha present one-line one-line movement and bees use the Soutbe em Pacific, separated from tha Central Cen-tral !arilflc, which now aervea Utah, I would encourage traffic from compel!-i compel!-i live territory. He argued that com- petition now axiatlng for movement of traffic from Utah to tha Northern Pa- clflc and to aouthern Paotfto coast points would be materially . reduced and that the Central Pacific would ba largely dependent upon the Union Pacific,' creating a altuatlon "anme-tluwa "anme-tluwa otherwise than In tha pubilo In. ' tercet." |