| Show SOLUTION Or OF RATE AGITATION Railroad Officials Hope They Have at Last tast Hit Upon A Good Scheme CONVENTION OF SHIPPERS II 11 to III tet lQ Coin om All 11 11 Iii t 1111 The his inca ot of the railroads have hao ut lit last round whal they believe will willbe willbe be IL a o of the com coat front competitive cities a regard IliA Iii rates It is III so simple and so eo old that it II Is a wonder that It hOIl ha nut thought Qt cit In III brief It Is a I propositIon to get committees e ot of ship pete perl commercial organizations Ind chambers chamber or of commerce together ot itt one meetIng them light the tho matter matterI oU ot among th ott on an equitable basis buh buhi It is II understood that the chamber of at commerce ot of Portland Or has been approached to 10 particIpate In Inthe the that In Iii lie tho sear future the men ot of Boise e Po lu Pocatello catello Ogden and Snit Salt Lake Lako wll Otto ono and all ho InvIted to met meet at some lama con cen central trai pOint and dIscuss their steeds and their ideas Ilene ot of equItable rates rutes Just how this worked In l IL way tau as t last mouth month when grain men ot of Salt Sail Lake lako nod and Ogden got together The whO oro present And who In the past have I between the two cities and reo re tim tho switching by both sides on their own shoulders en cn enjoyed Joyed the tho hugely huge First II a ot of the tho rommer vial Interests ot of Ogden would arise antI state his hili rose llIe and the tho men agreed with him that his hili requests were reasonable Theis n a Slit Lake grain shipper would take floor and In turn state Stilt Lakes side of at the tho II lit also alo Informed that Irs In the opinion ot of the thu Salt lakos claIms v ore ero also just Thou both aides were asked to 10 get to on the tho What followed wax 1111 very ry Instructive ot of cour course e ij 1 If fl recent bids bide faIr to I become a classic Mr Ir horn man is III quoted IS as In referring to the tho and the rate rale que We do not snake make rates wo we equalize them This Is in what the railroad officials claim to 10 be conscientiously doing and thereby givIng equal Justice to all cities along their system This however does doell not plea please so the jobbers and ship shippers pers ot of other cities Under the Iho equalizatIon ot of rates Port Portland land which at ono one tune lime used to shiP numerous commodities to 10 Salt Lake has now been blen back to 10 the tho Ore Oro Oregon gon slate at nt At Huntington thereby giving the th jobbers jobber of at Delco anti Poc bib a chance Portland Is lip up In arms arnie nt tc W cb pI p are the other big Io n Oregon Short Line ocr Oer similar Of rates At various meetings held recently the Iho uni versa creal reply to nil argument hoe hils been we do not core for tor Salt Lake lako Poca Ioen or Bol floise p all as the Iho ease may be b WEI we are oro working for tor our own town and so It goes It II is no now on the that the varl var ou ous cities on the Harriman ot of railroads In the tho west will ho be called to send to a rate convention It If they ever lver arrive at nn an equItable con elusion the officials have nn an dreams of at the time when they will cea cease e to be the punching bag and In dire disgrace with shippers large un and small |
