Show T AH MAY fiGHT FOR ORIENTAL TRADE STATE URGED TO HELP OPEN NEW NEWMARKET MARKET Delegation Needed to Go to Washington With View Yiew to Promoting Interests of Western Industries By E. E J. J David High freight rates on manufactured Iron and other products products' are stifling the I Industrial life of Utah and unless the Associated IndustrIes and the Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manu Manu- association and other organizations put up a determined and winning winning win win- ning fight immediately a potential I los lose will be felt here There are certain organizations charged with the duty of protecting Utah business and at the same time expected to the trade of this I territory but evidently lacking knowledge knowledge know know- ledge of the situation and what It means to this state they have taken I no action The time to strike a telling and victorious vic vic- I blow for tor Utah made products has arrived Unless speedy speed action is l taken talen It means that this state will willbe willbe I be from entering markets i where goods valued at hundreds ot of thousands of dollars a year ear m may y be besold sold ALL STATES REACH OUT This Is the perIod of reconstruction and every state Is' Is reaching out for more busIness On the business that thatIs Is done naturally rests the prosperity or failure ot of a state Utah to keep Its end uP must now exert ever every endeavor to get its goods In every possIble possible pos pos- sIble market Not only will the success success suc- suc cess to be achieved bY such efforts result result re- re sult In more revenue re flowing in here but It will be the tn means of providing employment for several hundred more hands a feature not to be Ignored especially at this time when the labor question Is perplexing every com com- TRADE WITH ORIENT Trading relations rel Utah and the Orient are insignificant at present The high rate late precludes precludes pre pre- Utah manufacturers competing with the manufacturers In the East San Francisco in particular and California Cali- Cali fornia and the West Vest in general are adversely affected But San Francisco business leaders are putting up a aI I fight to remove discrimination so that Western Vestern goods may be able to compete with the J Eastern astern manufactured prodo products prod prod- I in the Oriental markets on an anI o equitable le basis It Is now up to Salt I Lake and Utah manufacturers to join In the fight for the preservation and I the promotion of the i industries d of this slate t PROSPERITY AND RATES To a large extent the prosperIty ot of any community maYbe based on tall fair freight rates Unless just tariffs prevail prevail pre pre- vail a community is Is deprived O the right to prosper and expand since t Is limited In its markets for selling Its goods San Francisco is losing more than tons of freight which formerly went through that port to the Orient on account ot of the high transcontinental tal freight rates Present transcontinental transcontinental rail rates range from 17 to 35 a ton on commodities while the shipping board has established a freight rate of 20 a ton on shipping traffic from Atlantic ports to the Orient Orient Ori Ori- ent and 14 a ton from the Pacific coast to the OrIent PITTSBURG HAS ADVANTAGE The point points point's is that I Pitts Pittsburg burg and other Eastern cities are enabled to ship goods much cheaper to the Orient on account of the fact that they theyo do o not have hae to absorb heavy transcontinental transcontinental trans trans- continental freight rates No Eastern manufacturer would think ot of sending goods overland to San Francisco for forthe forthe the Orient when he could use an Atlantic Atlantic At- At lantic seaboard and save the money and as a consequence ship the goods I cheaper The result Is that San Francisco ran Fran cisco has lost more than tons of export trade and a severe seere blow has I been s struck ruck against Pacific coast ship ship- ping INTERESTS IDENTICAL How does docs this affect Salt Lake and Utah This Is a reasonable question and can be answered easily In effect effect ef- ef any loss to San Francisco on Oriental shipping means a loss to Salt Lake and Utah since goods manufactured manufactured here cannot be shipped via the Pacific coast to compete with goods sent from the Atlantic sea seaboard board to the Orient The high transcontinental rate hits this territory hard As a matter of fact It gives gIes practicallY a death blow to Utah's trade In the Orient and the Orient is c. c market which Utah has every rIght to enter BEFORE WAR CONDITIONS A few years ago the Traffic Service Bureau of Utah through It H. W. W Prick Prick- ett manager succeeded in a he ring before the Interstate commerce commission commission com com- mission In having the rates reduced on Continued on page 5 STATE A URGED TO HELP ELP 1ST c Continued n from page 1 l manufactured Iron from Salt Lake so that the rats rat would be no hIgher than Denver A differential was allowed on the Pittsburg rate so as to allow Denver Denver Den Den- ver Salt Lake and IntermountaIn Interests interests In- In to compete wIth Eastern manu manu- As a result Salt Lake iron and steel manufacturers were given the opportunity opportunity to send goods to the Orient I With the war being declared a special war export ran rail rate was ordered As Asa a consequence the transcontinental tariff was too high to allow the Utah I manufacturers to compete with Eastern Eastern East East- I ern manufacturers EAST MAKING HAY While it Is true truo that shipping generally generally gener- gener ally may have decreased considerably with the Orient In the war period the I fact must not be lost sight ot of t that at Eastern exporters are taking advanI advantage I tage ot of every opportunity to stimulate trade In the Far East Atlantic ports I therefore are benefiting at the expense I of the Western Vestern clUes cities and Pacific orts I i II I a S San Francisco business men realizing I Ing the situation with much dismay i consider that there Is a chance ot of have havethe the prewar export rail rate restored I II I It If restoration Is made It will mean I that Salt Lake and Utah can gain considerable trade In Inthe inthe the Oriental market For Instance the Utah Iron and Steel company would be able to ship from thirty to sixty cars ot of manufactured Iron products products prod prod- I a month via ia San Francisco to the tho Orient ONLY ONE EXAMPLE I This is but just one example That one example shows that many pore nore I i men could be employed to produce the I II manufactured Iron It also shows that I more revenue would be here and It would help to stimulate trade In InI the Far East East-a. trade not to be deI despised de- de I In these days dars of reconstruction I wIth every nation polling for new customers The San Francisco chamber of commeree com com- meree merce also the chambers of at commerce of Seattle and Tacoma have already I acted It Is now up to Salt Lake to send as powerful a delegation I as possible possible pos pos- sible to Washington to combine with the Pacific coast interests WOULD BE CALAMITY In its communication to the railroad I administration which Is preliminary to a delegation going to the capitol I I the San Francisco chamber ot of comI commerce com com- I merce In its petition states We Ve I hereby petition the railroad adminIstration administration adminIs- adminIs I for Immediate relief to save us from the most serious commercIal and financial calamity that the Pacific coast of the UnIted States has ever had to contend with Salt Lake manufacturers c cannot afford afford af- af ford to send their goods via the Atlantic Atlan- Atlan tic seaboard to the tho Orient The tariff Is so high that they could not possibly I compote with Pittsburg and other manufacturers The goods must go through the Western estern gateway HERE IS PROBLEM I Is Salt alt Lake Lak and Utah to be barred from the Oriental market marlet or Is It to gain Its rightful lis trade with all competitors com com- as It is justly entitled to atI at- at I tarn tain That Is the Question and It Is IsI isnow I now up to the tho custodians of Industrial and commercial progress ot of this state to joIn with San Francisco and other I 1 cities It if greater prosperity b by augmented ug I trade It is to lie be realized here |