Show ij UNFAIR RATES INJURE ij OIL BUSINESS IN UTAH I UI UTAH AU CONCERN CONCER IS THE VICTIM I Tunnel Oil Company Unable I to Compete With Cal California ornia Concern on Account of E Excessive Ex Ex- Freight Freight Rates 3 VALUABLE MINERAL DEPOSITS UNTOUCHED Denver Rio Grande Hauls Haul Colorado Product for 5 57 Cents and Charges Utah 8 85 Cents for Less Distance GOOD CONTRACTS ARE LOST l' l 4 Because of the railroad f freight rate discrimination r- r th the Tunnel Oil company of Dragon Utah is unable tc to compete with oil dealers of off f Bakersfield and nd other towns t. t in itt Southern California Californi for I Salt Lake trade The Utah I Company is charged nearly three times the sum for shipping shipping ship ship- ShiP I ping crude oil the distance of r E miles within the state I that California shippers are asked to pay for shipping the same same 1 kind nd of freight 93 iLce dis i g t n nf f K f v r J iJ i P y r business and the I company has thousands of acres of the valuable deposit that it cannot get to a market I arid and rid sell it it- for a a. reasonable price Dragon which IB lB near neat tho the state lino Uno between Utah and Colorado Is latho tho shipping ship ping point orth- orth T company r of which John T. T Pope is president Tho The st station Uon Is miles from Salt Sat Lake and order in-order r to get el oil with an asphalt base j t to Salt Lake Lae In barrels barres b by tho the C carload it costs a hundred pounds Of that sum the tho line along which Dragon station is located re receives re- re calves BO 60 cents a 10 hundred pounds while the Denver Rio Grande Grando road gets 85 86 cents a 0 hundred pounds for Cor hauling tho the oil the remainder or of tho the distance to J 1 Salt Lake The same D. D R. R G. G road will haul a barrel of or oil oB or paint from Denver to Salt Lake a II distance of ot 74 14 ml lee at the rate of 67 cents a hundred I pounds The Southern Pacific railroad i hauls oils with i asphalt base from Cal to Salt Sail It Lal Lake a for tor 46 cents a hundred pounds a 0 distance of or 95 miles From Some time ago ago- nol Mr Pope Popo came to Salt Lake with a view of ot disposing of or somo of his asphalted oil to J J. J D D. Hanley Hanle a i local sIdewalk k con contractor tractor Mr 1 Popo talked to the D. D R. R G. G officials n re regarding regarding re- re garding the rates and he declares that the officials officials' promised officials promised to give an equitable equitable equit equit- able tariff He lie went ahead with his hie work and secure secured several large contracts contracts contracts con- con tracts and when tho the D D. R. R G. G officials Ii c t learned that tho the Tunnel Oil company r. r was vms about to ship their product to Salt Lako rako where b by the tho way the Standard Standard Stand Stand- I ard Oil com company pan Is 18 represented tho they told Pope that nothing could bo be done dono 1 freight ht for tor him in the way war of ot cheaper rates He lIe lost tho the contracts contract a ao as a n. re- re suit While talking to Mr Hanley about ut tho the tho oil and asphalt Hanley remarked that he got his asphalted oil from near Bakersfield CaL and It cost him about 15 a a. barrel lIe He said he ht oil and andI t paid 60 BO cents a barrel for tor the freight A barrel of I the remainder in that kind of oil will weigh elgh more than and investigation of at the tho 00 pounds Pacific rate sheets showed that Southern the railroad charges were only 46 J hundred pounds for transporting transport transport- cents centa a Bakersfield to Salt ing tho t 1 il 11 from L received by Mr Ir it was where r Lake would not nol I t Hanley Manley Of course Hanley fair a pa pay the Tunnel Oil company to Salt Lako Lake price when he for could delivering get gel the It stuff from rom CaUl Call Cali- l fornia much cheaper or Discrimination of ot tho the discrimination J Another Instance Tunnel Oil against the tion practiced T cI on 00 Three UNFAIR IR RATES INJURE OIL BUSINESS IN UTAH t Cit I mood l iro Ironi iii Pogi- Pogi Ou One Otic I company h by the thu Dt er 0 t JIb Rio Hlo Grando Grande cam to lI light ht when Mr 11 Po Pope po attempted to sell noil of or his hili oil to fruit growers at Delta Della Coin Colo He lie received ed a proposition from rout tho tue Delta Della people e. vho witti wanted oil for sprayIng spray spray- In lug Ing anti and smudging purposes au and a agreed to supply them bent If It tho the right could bo be fixed Tho rho D. D It II G. G ra railroad ofil- ofil oC officials refused refuse to mako a u fair lair rate ate on un the tho oil an and Popo discovered that tho the Delta Della l. l people could buy oil at Florence Flor Flor- untie ence Colt CoIn HOO OO in miles farther timer away and havo have It U shipped to them cheaper than ho he could afford to sell sc-li It IL und nial ship It from Dragon but a short distance away alvay He lIe lost th that hat t contract which was waN worth considerable money because of or I Ino no other oIlier reason than tho unjust discrimination the dis crimination In freight rates against tho time comp company n he ho represented tell ted |