Show FREIGHT FOR TINTIC MINES sleeping reductions in freight lutes between the mines of the district and the smelters in the sat salt lake allen alle will be effective effect iNe on the of this month this information was made public during the earl carl part of the present week and there IS 19 no question but NN what hat it is one of the best pieces of benns that has been agnen out to in a score oi 01 more years lintins mines hae haie been shipping heavily throughout the present year but with the new rate in effect we can call no doubt expect the district to double its tonnage the reduction which has jug just t been announced and which will aill be effective next week amounts to about 30 pel cent and it will clip ap pel pei ton from the tho average freight charges on oil local ores this voluntary and joint action on oil the part of the union pacific system and the den denser dener er kio rio grande rail roid which was aas taken at a recent conference of the freight authorities un undoubtedly marks the advent of tv foi fol not onla thi tintic gintic district but the entire state and in fact the whole intermountain country aa as similar reductions have hane been announced on oil california and nevada ores shipped to utah points while gintic tintic mining men are thankful to the railroad companies com pinies leg they do not look upon this reduction as a benefi clent act but rather as a lau latt application of justice to a district that has long been struggling under the bonds of railway sla slav slavery v cry tintic gintic has throughout its history suffered because of highly discriminatory rates on its ores des pite such a tremendous liandi handicap cip our mines have lime enjoyed some measure of prosperity the old burdensome rates anere ft ere put into effect many years ago and while the were perhaps low loi enough to take tho the business mm from the 0 ov teama teams of the pioneer days they nv ei c not sufficiently low to lend much encouragement to mining such bates should leei have been al allowed loved to stand all these years because dm dul ing that time has been moning thead by leaps and bounds and in stead of shipping i i few c carloads cir loads of ore each week oui mines are moving trainloads tram loads of ore daily even with the substantial reduction which has just been granted mines ft ill still be paying rates higher C than those prevailing in such favored localities aa as bingham and park city ft here the mines are con side rabi closer to the smelters aiters large is ts the i le is it is 19 nothing more than a step tow aid lifting a burden some handicap that has worked to the of tintic gintic since the earliest car liest days of railroading in utah while the mining companies of this district will ill perhaps derne denne the great est benefits from the reduction it will be a wonderful stimulus to smelting is it will mean the use of the full complement of furnaces the opera tion of the plants at more nearly their capacity and greater efficiency all around it is a step toward to ard bringing the mining industry of the west inest back to prewar conditions and man of utah operators feel tint thit it will N ill lead to opening of new mines and the work ing lug of min nim properties which are now nov closed the roads concerned in the tion made formal application to ali the utah public utilities commission for permission pei mission to shorten the customary legal notice period of the proposed change and the poi i r to make the new rates effect effective iNe on july this action of the railroad companies compani eg was taken after a most careful in vesti esti gation and in the belief that tt lower freight rate from the numerous properties of the tintic gintic district to the smelters will aill be productive product iNe not only of an increased output from the mines which are now producing but that it will enable the profitable operation of many mines which have been closed down dovin since the general mining slump following the war in the minds of railroad men tho the opinion is definitely settled that the contemplated lowering of freight tariffs will not only b be welcomed by all the interests engaged in the opera tion of mines mills and smelters shelters sm elters but will ill be equally agreeable to business interests in general because of its di and almost immediate effect in ill augmenting the buying power of many individuals from tintic gintic district including sil cr olt mammoth eureka and other shipping points in the district iron ore reduced from per ton to 1 per ton ore and concentrates value 3 50 per ton reduced from to 1 v balue 5 per ton toil from to 1 value 10 per ton from to 1 value alue 15 per ton from 2 20 to value alue 20 per ton from 2 80 to v alue 30 per ton from 3 10 to alue 40 per ton from 3 10 to value alue N 50 per ton from 3 10 to 2 value alue 60 per ton toil from 3 80 to 2 25 bilue 70 per ton toil from 3 80 to 2 50 N value alue 80 per ton from 3 80 to 2 75 value 90 per ton toil from 3 80 to 3 value alue pel ton from 3 80 to 3 25 there are no changes in the schedule of ore of more than per ton toil value aa As a matter of fact much of the bic 01 e from the tintic gintic district is of a v alue not to exceed 50 per ton |