Show WILL TRY FREIGHT RATE CASES IN SALT L A K X case Is consolidated fuel and castle coal companies vs railroads 90 Dail roads hearing will begin next month aho ah interstate commerce commission has announced that it will on july hold a hearing in salt lake city in the case of the consolidated soli dated fuel company and the C isalo valley coal compan against the santi fe and twenty five other railroads charging discrimination nation in freight rates against ag abst utah mines the hearing Is to be in charge of ner bruchmiller Bluch miller washington rj C act to i t letter rec received ived this week from ceorge N brown of the interstate commerce commission the hearing la is expected to bring to silt 13 ailt I 1 ake take cit city several score coil coit men railroad rill rall roid road attorneys tt tornes traffic men and otier witnesses the I 1 os 08 an ali goles coil dealers de det tiers lers to the number of alft and the lissok latel commer clil clubs of naho joined with the tile consolidated fuel lu and the castle valley coil coi of salt lak city in their ciso the tile r tilro idi I 1 nt r aa iii liiK loni the complaint wis was filed february let lat with the commission alleging tit thit it the railroads rall roada were charging tho the coal company fifty centa cents more a ton to haul utah coal to idaho thin NN oming coal although the haul Is about the s irre the coal m men n sly s ly thit the harriman Harrl man lines wishing to take all the coal business to idaho towns make a differ in faor of wyoming coil be baue utah coil coll la Is hauled pirt way ver over tho the beier and anti rio glande last ast there was a it difference dit terence in ate rate to idimo of only twenty five cents a ton but the interstate corn feie meie rues e i om at the instance idaho towns cut the wyoming down fifty tents cents leaving the miners to compete coni pete against a differential which they say them thern from front doing bugl business ness I 1 t till tit coal men say that if commission decides that utah have the ime sime s rate to idaho the northwest as wyoming has will mean that trainloads of if utah coal will go to that section where only single cirs cars aro are hauled now bince since the complaint was filed the western esteria es terii pacific and the san redro route have made inome concessions to utah coil coal operators i J coleman general freight agent for the santi sant t fe was in ili bill lake city saturday having come from front chicago t to 0 1 look ook up matters in conn connection eLtIon with the case the tile pil il complaint 13 1 against the lines all ahe the railroads which serve thy the intermountain region arc made defend ints as the coal men say the roads have haie an agreement among them delves which Is to injurious to utah idaho cities joined with fill the utah miners in the complaint and also lo 10 angelea angeles coal dealers because they want ant utah coal and cannot get it on account of the high differed wil now in force against this state last winter there was all but a coal famine in idaho because the wyoming minea mines could not supply the demand and butth coal was nag practically shut out by the high freight rate shippers were ere compelled to pay |