| Show I DRAWN IN GUN CONTEST TEST ON fEEDER L S. S L. L Firm Interested in I Freight Rate Fight Over OverStock OverStock Stock Fattened in Transit Transit Transit Tran Tran- Tran- Tran sit to Midwest M Market Briefs were mailed Saturday to I Ithe the Interstate commerce commission commis sion slon by the Traffic Service Service- bureau of Utah and the Union Pacific system system tem tern respectively opposing g and de defending defending de- de fending tending th the carriers carrier's proposed change in the rate Crate structure Involving involving I ing shipments of of livestock from Idaho and Utah to Missouri river points The case particularly re relates relates re- re I lates hates to the shipments of lambs Iambs and restrictions placed on routing when the tIle shipments originate on the Oregon Short Line railroad To understand the case which refers to supplement No 15 of I. I C. C C. C tariff No o. o it Is said ld the public should know that every year lambs In Utah and are shipped to feeding or fattening grounds in the Middle West Here lIere the lambs are detained fed until fat tat and then entrained tor market along the Missouri l river It Is the practice of Iamb lamb dealers to go into Idaho buy the un fattened fat fat- tOned lambs Iambs ship them to their own feeding grounds or tp rented feed grounds fatten them and then make malte the profit when they are shipped to market SEVERAL LINES INTERESTED A great many of these feeding grounds are loc located ted In the tho Arkansas Arkan Arkan- sas river valley vaHey This vane valley is JS 5 tapped by the Missouri Pacific railroad the Santa Fe railroad the Burlington and the Rock Island railroads Some are located on the Union Pacific system In Nebraska Many years ago the Union Pacific system established through rates on livestock especially lambs to en encourage encourage encourage en- en courage the industry In Idaho and Utah That Is growers in those territorIes territories ter ter- could ship theIr products to market at a special rate and andover andover andover over any routing they pleased By building the Gibb Gibbon m cutoff to Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City however the Union PacIfic Pacific Pa Pa- chic secured practically all the dIrect di direct direct dI- dI shipments from the point of origination in the West to the mar mar- ket The other railroads through the Middle West got sot very little mUe of the haul GIVEN SPECIAL RATE There was a in the tariff that growers had the privilege of shipping f feeder eder lambs Iambs to the feeding grounds stopping them for two or five months and then I reshippIng them to market for the through rate charge In other words there was no additional fee for this service In 1914 the Union Pacific officials daIs claim the tariff was constructed constructed constructed con con- so that shipment of feeders feeders feeders feed feed- ers must travel from the point of origination to point of destination on the Union Pacific system It was arranged that no shipment of lambs Iambs could be shipped from Idaho or Utah to Denver over the Union Pacific and then transferred transferred transferred trans trans- to one of the prairie lines Unes which got the remainder of the haul for the through r rate te This was done it is said to secure the thelong thelong thelong long haul for the Union Pacific S. S L. L FIRM PROTESTS On April 24 1923 they claim that inadvertently the tariff was changed allowing these feeder shipments to go to Denver over the Union Pacific and then over one of the prairie lines to the feedIng feedIng feeding feed- feed Ing grounds and hence to market marketon on the through rate On December 29 1924 the Union Pacific sought permission of the Interstate commerce commerce com corn merce commission to correct the mistake e and not allow the diverse routing on the tho through rate Gulp CUlp Co dealers in lambs a firm la in Salt SaIt Lake which operates feeder ards yards in the Arkansas valley vaIley off orf the line Une of the Union Pacific sought the aid of the Traffic Service Bureau Bureau Bureau Bu Bu- Bu- Bu reau of Utah to protest the charge A hearing was held in Salt Lake on February 9 1925 to argue the case One of the outstanding features of the protest contained in the Traffic Service Bureau of Utah's brief is a charge that the Union Pacific Pacific Pa pa- in changing the structure Is violating the letter etter and the spir spire spira f of the Hoch Smith congressional resolutIon resolution resolution res res- which has only recently terminated terminated ter ter- in the order for an investigation investigation investigation gation of the entire nations nation's rate structure It also emphasizes the public nes- nes for the continuance of the through rates on feeder shipments partly on the Union Pacific and partly on other lines It states states- that if tho the proposed change is allowed lambs shipped via the diverse routIng routing routing rout rout- ing would have to pay a combination t lion Ion rate thereby increasing the freight rates and anel tending to de decrease decrease de- de crease rease the sale of or Idaho and Utah lambs It also brings out that te feeder feed feed- der d- d er lambs originating on the Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- AnI I geles and Salt Lake route are al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed to use the prairie lines Unes on the through rate CALLED OUT OF LINE TI The e Union Pacific contends that it deserves the long h haul ul from traffic traffic fic tic originating on its line Une that the routing of feeder lambs via its line lino to Denver and then over other lines hues huesto to Kansas City is an out of line Une haul Both parties contradict each other other oth oth- er Cr relative to the condition of the feed lots paralleling the prairie lines IInes an and the Union Pacific Pacific- and andt II t tp the amount of traffic originating in Idaho and Utah and going to the pens in the Arkansas valley alle Tho rho brief for tor the Traffic Service Ser Bureau of Utah was filed med b by II W. W I and Milton II H. Love Lo The rho for iol or the Union Pacific was filed b by II H. A George H. H I I Smith J. J M. M and J. J V. V Lyle I |
