Show ATE s d JUSTICE 1 ro rod FOR S II IS DEMANDED i I GROWTH OF CITY IS HELD UP BY UNFAIR ii RAILWAY CHARGES CLUB CLUBs lU lUI I s TOlD H W WC C nil UfA Traffic Service Bureau Manager Man Man- ager Points Out Disastrous Dis ast ow Results Re of Treatment Treat Treat- ment Given This This- State Salt Lake City is robbed of many hundreds of thousands of dollars revenue revenue reve- reve nue a year because its railroad gateway gateway gate gate- way is closed Thousands of visitors who formerly formerly for for- merly passed through here for fo the Yellowstone Yellowstone Yel- Yel park are now practically compelled to travel via a different route from tho East Salt Lake City is left in the cold Hotel proprietors of this city are los los- ing a big trade while real estate operators operators oper- oper and others other are deprived the opportunity opportunity op- op of meeting are directed to other spots Ogden may excel Salt Lake City at as asa ata a city of industrial activity Mills which should have been erected in Salt Lake have been built at Ogden and mo more e will be constructed there Tile The transcontinental rates on freight prevent this territory competing with other sections of the country on an anI I equitable basis and Utah is not allowed I rightful trade expansion Action must be taken to remedy the conditions and to put up a strong fight for justice being obtained inn in behalf behalf be- be half of Salt Lake City A special freight committee has been appointed in behalf of the city by the Commercial club and it has conferred with H. H W. W manager of the Traffic Service Service Ser Ser- vice Bureau of Utah Mr spoke before the Kiwanis club at Its luncheon In the Newhouse hotel toda today I h substance he spoke as above but the following excerpts are given to show what hie freight rate situation means to this community The growth of some of our states stales has been more rapid than others Those that have enjoyed the greatest degree of progrESS has no doubt been partly due to conditions which 4 naturally favored their growth and partly due to conditions made favorable favor favor- able for their progress by the transportation trans trans- systems servIng them l lA A nation may by Its tariff laws r encourage or discourage ge the importation Im- Im I of products from a foreign country and so with the railroad by Its system or of ratemaking rate rate- making g can encourage ow age or discan discourage dis- dis courage the growth of any particular par par- community or state Prior r to the recent government Continued Continued on page 3 OF UNFAIR AIR I RATES ON i STATE ARE TOLD fI om pa page e 1 of railroads the I ty of the traffic officials crous us have in my overlooked the theat at they were public servants le ler our laws were commanded Ide just and rc reasonable trans trans- tes for all sections of the l ICE FOR UTAHn UTAH Ii n n the p past t been one of tes that have not been lar- lar favored with rEasonable Ion on rates and this not not- ding that almost every factor Into the tho making of a Uv ively ly low rate is evident b be principal factor to be bc con con- p connection with the making light ight rate is the density of r factors are the density adon competitive necessity etc out twelve years ago when Club Traffic Bureau ke KC began its struggle for the font nent of reasonable eson traffic moving from and nd between points within the tah At that time the pubs pub pub- I I s s from rom Eastern points to higher than those en cn commodities from the same origin to the Pacific coast I e rates to the Pacific coast commodities were so much Shipments originating for forn I I n seaboard territory en route through coast an additional Loo 1800 miles and hauled back I another miles for foI less Ion charges than If they made r de direct to Utah As a ab b efforts of the Commercial Bureau and its successor Bureau of Utah such dis- dis practices have from time I en n removed until at pres- pres f Ire no rates from the East ja aE are higher on any corn com I It 0 the Pacific coast I am ama a advise that we are ale d that withIn the next few ew I Ire re will be a general vates to Utah from the hat such rates will be mas ma- ma I s han haa the he rates from the theo theof o of origin to the said Pa- Pa pa-I pa G FIGURES te ore me a letter from Nr on of the West est traffic committee of the administration I ted February 21 21 of this I t deals with this proposed I a of f rates to Utah The Thet t s commIttees are busily pr preparing figures based on they made for I the i Intermountain t n I It is the and nd plan to handle the matter mattery y as s follows a copy lf f the new rates I In a tentative I n order that all In interI inter inter- ter- ter I t. t have a copy of the acs ac- ac I s they would Win out the proposed I I the to be pla placed ed In the hands freight UP in type pe very fact we have a telen tele- tele T n Mr Barnwell chair chair- San Francisco com com- Is working out the de- de ot of both terri tern the expects to be able these figures within the i elof f e numerous ree ree re- re e par earL of various arious unity to hI 1 over oven to the their In InIth inith Ith same and this cm- cm ii the only satisfactory t they E can be handled In Ine ina a e concerned may be given tY to present anything to offer either for or ortes U gates tes is by holding a pub pub- H Ither on- on onor or more ThIs not been definitely 1 depends somewhat on iong o ng e possible I matter Vi to an earl early and n n and Willie while the subject r r- r way for some time It ire cf all trans trans- tes and Is ia no small un- un jarge arge force of ched from their regular to this work regu- regu past V ew weeks we hope to i stive tariff and announce I In procedure r will l be lt n o with I ft In t the ask sk you to rest assured I Ig g is being done donee e matter I ow whether many of you OU what this adjust adjust- I I s 5 means to our manu manu- bes and tlc people of I lef It means that our I tonly be materially re- re lat 1st Our ur distributing ter- ter be enlarged compared I Iwas one year ago at miles or li In other will have be been n added to I i re e area by reason realon of a adjustment of freight Ory bry whose area Is great reat- of f the entire state of I LE I ago when the Oregon road so being Jein I i orIginating on SF ng to 10 Eastern points or orto orto to points on that I line lie he East could he be routed East was routed ou d. d In co con con- e A itlO transported en route he Oregon Short Line by tile the Union pa- pa lad Ind the cancellation of and rates on business tween the Oregon Short Shor rl rf Rio Illo Grande Crande railroads I It t C the effect of placing far as the movement J I l P points t In u Utah f I p points In Idaho d O Oe and e East was concerned ne of the Union I lf I t p te manner rn t than Is Isted ted ted- tedon on a branch line of I i e railroad I coal moving from the d- d da a few tew other Isolated I ere are at present no tor joint rates between regor regon Short LIne and ande railroads At pres- pres ew exceptions there are on Joon traffic Interchanged i stern Pacific and Oregon eJ oads or between e Points 1 Ic PA railroad and in Wyoming points r on g from and to t the points vt oer l t travel under n up of the sum Hum of the 4 r Salt Lake City or Ogle Og- Og S le lc Traffic moving from to Butte Mont 1 may ails alia of the Southern Paden Paden Pa- Pa den under through rates i but If It traveled via the PacifIc through Salt Lake City It would be un- un den a rates that h are much gf higher h ron than the g li through r gl published blI h d rates via the Southern Pacific and Ogden GATEWAY CLOSED A few years ago the Ogden gateway gateway gate gate- way was closed to the Interchange of passengers between the Denver Rio Grande and Oregon Short Line railroads traveling en route from Eastern points to points In Idaho and Montana and also In the opposite direction direction di- di the th effect of which was that Eastern tourists en route to the Yellowstone Yel- Yel p park uk and to points In Idaho and Montana were deprived of the senie splendors offered en route b by bythe the Denver Rio Grande railroad lJ as was ts III atso so the passenger who resided re- re sided its In Idaho and Montana siring to journey eastward This was wasa a severe blow to Salt Lake CI City from the standpoint of the loss of the th tourists tourists' tour tour- lOts lOts' travel and the advent of government control of the free side trip tickets from Ogden to Salt Lake City and return previously previous allowed by the rail rail- roads was discOntinued ThIs action on the thc part of the railroad administration has diverted from Salt Lake City many thousands of passengers and a consequent consequent conse- conse quent loss of many thousands of dollars to our hotels I real t e ee dealers e e property prop prop- erty and nde Us I In general PETITION PREPARED Now ow that the government Is In con con- trot of the operations of railroads and their Is that all federal controlled railroads are being operated as one Ss S's tern there Is no apparent reason why the Salt Lake City and Ogden gateways should not be thrown wide open to both I freight and passenger business Upon Instruction of the recently organized transportation committee of the Corn Com I mercial club we are now preparing petition peti- peti tion and statistics In support thereof that will In the very near future be filed with the railroad administration asking that this be done thereby permitting these cities to enjoy the commercial advantages advantages to which they are justly entitled We e cannot reasonably expect to become become be- be come a manufacturing state of Importance until our transportation rates on coal there are hundreds of millions of tons within an average distance of miles of Salt Lake City are reduced Tile The cost of fuel Is an Item of great Importance to be considered In connection with the establishment of a large manufacturing plant An Intended Investors Investor's first InN inquiry In- In would be relative to O Ills transportation e N IVr rl ord I tation rates on fuel raw materials e outbound rates on his finished products If he were Informed that his rates were I comparatively highet than In other localities lo- lo I thereby preventing Ir him from fromm m marketing his finished product on a basis of equality with other manufacturing manufacturing turing centers he would naturally locate elsewhere Some of the business men of Utah know that this has happened not but many times In conclusion I desire to calt to i your attention one matter which and seems that to I is me the het to absence b be n very r of f Important unity rt t that hn i ihas has In the past been evident among our various lines of business or This condition does not exist with some other communities that I have In mind As an illustration In San it if one line of business is laboring under a severe unnatural disadvantage disadvantage dis- dis advantage other concerns regardless of their direct Interests make It their business to cooperate with the less I fortunate concern with view of removing removing re- re moving Its difficulties It Is needless to say that greater results can be accomplished by united effort than by individual effort It should be borne In mind that creates force and also that your prosperity to a large degree depends upon the the nf every IndIvidual or I c concern doing I in-g in b business sl ess i in n this it state te The Commercial club of Salt Lake City 11 I has recently appointed a very strong transportation committee with Fred FredI I Sweet Street as It I believe that It itis is their Intention to let act Immediately with the object of having removed the on- on of our progress that I have reI referred re- re I I to and to the end that we may mayI have a free and unrestricted movement I of our commerce It If you are Interested in our transportation problems It would be my suggestion e that you give your I financial a and moral r 1 support pg to this corn corn- O I and my suggestion Is also alEo that If 1 you ou should hear of an any hammering I against Its activities that yo the facts I |