Show t FOn EO EQUAL RATES j i lub Determined to Have 1 S Promise Kept I t P t v e ed that Salt SnIt Lake Lako ko City shall T bo bo acc accorded cc an equitable adjustment 0 of the present passenger rates as compared com com- j pared red with far tar Western points and Eastern cities President 1 F. F C. C S Schramm of t the Commercial club a and d j mb r of commerce h has s announced representatives of ot Western lines s be held strictly to their recent 3 f c to cons consider der tho the matter at their next traffic conference t r As this conference will not bo be held heW J January nuary 1922 a decision to submit submit sub sub- mit tho matter to the interstate commerce com corn merce commission in advance of ot that time may bo be decided upon at any time The promise to consider consider- the matter was Wa gh given n. n to Commercial club officials Hast Saturday when representatives of ot the tho Union Pacific a and Southern Pa- Pa railroads held a conference in this ty relative to the Salt Lake side trip from Ogden f Tho The question p pf pr alleged discrimination tion in connection with the tho passenger fares tares is held b by i Commercial club officials to bo ho almost as 88 important as the matter of ot the side II trip The present rates effective between be between be- be tween San Francisco Reno and other far Western points are practically the same as those from Salt Lake to Chicager Chicago Chi Chi- cago- cago Boston and New York despite tho the difference in in- total mileage In this co connection it Jt was pointed out that until recently a ticket to to New york ork or 01 other Eastern points could be purchased much cheaper at ij r a small station only nl a tc few fer miles west of or Salt Lake ke than at the tho ticket offices in this city This condition has been eliminated however howe and now tho Commercial club officials are determined determined deter deter- mined to put Salt Lake on an equitable basis as to passenger rates in effect for o the benefit of Pacific points |