Show HIGH FREIGHT CHARGES disclaimed SALT LAKE june 17 1883 editor deseret news your reference in m last nights NEWS to the pounds of wool teamed in from mayfield Mayti eld sanpete county does iu injustice justice to the utah central 11 ailway railway I 1 saw mr jacobson who brought the wool and inquired of him why lie he did not sail snip the wool over our road from juab lie lle replied there were so many y poor men indebted to the coop co op that they gave them the wool to haul on account of their indebtedness the price paid for haulin hauling th the e wool was buc ae per lou IOU ibs lbs jt re required I 1 i r c d five tive clays to the trip f from r 11 mayfield Mayti masti eld eid to salt luke lube and will take four day days a for the tile return trip there was no guaranty of return freight feight and two teams only were returning loade deight going back empty mayfield Mayfle ld is about forty miles distant from the railway hence the wool has bas to tb be teamed part way to sit salt lake laue La keThe lethe the rate paid to J nab is abou about tc SOc per ibs lbs the railway rate from juab on a carioad carload is soe soc per ibs lbs making goc from froin masfield mayfield ld to salt lake via team aud and rail or ten tea cents cheaper than by team all the way from their figures obtained from mr jacobson jacob Jacoh son we must naust conclude that it was wab nut on account of high hish railway freights but because the teams had nothing else to do and the tile work afforded them an opportunity of paying debts seventy cents per hundred pounds must be a a low rate for tor teams estimated on what each team must maust earn there were pounds of wool on the ten loads I 1 or an average of 2300 pounds to the load which 70 cents per er luo lud pounds equals 1610 per load it requires lise live days ays to make inake the trip and say four i days as to return liine nine days for round tri trl trip with a rate per day not quite iso pe per man an and team the he utah tah central railway has made S specially low rates forwood for wool wooi from all sta if it iti Is steamed teamed froin from any point V fr i i ilc lic near arthe anthe the railway it must be because of situ glin similar ilar liar reasons given in this case air Mr jacobson expressed his preference lor for shipping by railway as the wool iid ild did lid not dry out so much and was received in a better and cleaner condition col coi coie cole G jb A U C ry ily we cheerfully accord space to the foregoing communication that it may be shown that the U 0 ry ity co Is disposed tu to deal fairly with the public al the brief note in yesterdays NEWS was not intended to coave convey a contrary idea it was remarked that that the wool growers grower 4 mid nilca it cheaper to ship their products by teams than over the railroads that being tiie the ian lan uk e of one of the f freighters reigh tern more mone lore properly speaking peaking it should have been said sald slid that tuey found it to their advantage to do so because of the scarcity of money with which to pay f for or f freigh tand want af other employment for themselves and teams teatus |