| Show UTAH OIL Oft RATES I STILL KILL TRADE I Denver Rio Grande Offered I Cut but Uintah Still Robs Shippers COMPETITION IMPOSSIBLE Asphalt Trust Ra Railroad De Demands Demands De- De mands Nearly 20 Cents aTon a aTOil aTon Ton TOil Mile S. S V Y Derrah assistant general senet-nl freight agent ent of ot the Denver Rio Hlo Grande railroad has taken exceptions to tho article published in The Tho R Republican Ro Re- publican of ot yesterday showing how ho the business s of tho the Tunnel Oil on company company com corn pany at Dragon Drason Utah Is muzzled by exorbitant frel freight ht rates Mr Derrah bases his exceptions on tho the fact that two years ears ago nGo his company compan offered the Tunnel Oil on company a slightly lower rate on their oil from Mack to Salt Lake than tho company is now paying pay- pay Ing ng but the rate was not put into effect cf- cf feet because the oil company declared d that hat it still caused the freight charges chorge from rom Dragon to Salt Lake to be prohIbitive prohibitive prohibitive pro pro- and arid did not permit that compan com com- pan puny any to compete with oil shippers of the he Pacific coast The Denver RI Rio Grande Grondo railroad official had little to toa toay ay say a however on tho California rate on oil made b by the Harriman lines Unes further urther than that the Denver Rio Grande made no effort to meet et It In the article published 1 yesterday In InThe InThe inThe The Republican It was stated that the Tunnel Oil on company compan Is forced to pay 1 1 I. I 36 a n. hundred pounds on oil shipped from Dragon on Utah to Salt Lake Lakein via in inthe the railroad and the Denver Rio Grande That fact Is not disputed dis for that Is the rate tho the oil nil company pays It is the regular tariff on less than carload shipments Mr Derrah says rays rs that there Is ia a L rate rato of ot 1 O a hundred pounds on carload shipments but admits that the carload rate Is not taken advantage ad of oi by the oil aU company compan Letter to Company He Me produced a letter written to S. S S. S Jones a member of the tho Tunnel Oil company in which the Denver Rio RII Grande Grando railroad offered the oil compan company com corn pan pany a n. rate rato of at 9 cents a hundred pounds on oil hauled between Muck Mack and Salt Lake and other Utah common common cornmon com corn mon points Tacked onto that rate however Is in the tho charge c of 50 60 cents centt a hundred pounds which the tho Uintah railroad demands for hauling hauling- the oil oila a distance of ot 55 i miles The Uintah railroad can charge almost an any rate It plea pleases es and therefore the oil oll company com coin pany must pay par at the rate of a n. fraction traction frac trac- tion more than 1 I Scents a a. ton a milo mile for tor having ha oil hauled over the 5 mile stretch It Is the excessive Uintah Uin Un- tah tab rate rato that causes the oil company to be unable to meet competition even en In territory near Dragon reached 1 by r the Denver Rio Grande railroad which the Uintah railroad connects with at Mack Even though h the D Denver Denver Den Den- nver n- n ver Rio Grande is willing willing- willingto to make a rate of 59 cents a hundred pounds on oil from Crom Mack to Salt Lake yet et that concession would still sun make malee the rate from Dragon to Salt Lake 1 09 a 0 hundred pounds While the Tunnel Oil company would have to pay pap 1 09 a hundred pounds to get et Its oil here yet oil of the same grade Is hauled from Flor Pier ence Colorado to Salt Lake for 70 cents a hundred pounds making competition competition com corn petition by the Tunnel Oil on company compan Impossible And on top of ot that allIs oil all is hauled from Bakersfield Cal Cat to Salt Lake for a charge of or 46 E cents a n hundred pounds or less than half the lowest rate that the Denver Demer Rio Grande and Uintah line promised th the 11 Tunnel Oil flU Bakersfield i Is 15 9 93 3 11 miles from Sait Salt Lake while Dra Dragon on Utah is only O miles mile distant In Tn speaking of tho the California rate Mr Ir Derrah Denah disposed of or that by ly declaring de do- daring claring that the Denver Rio Grande made no attempt to haul fright ht at such a low figure and therefore It tt should not be considered The Tunnel Tunnel Tun Tun- nd nel Oil on company compan has to consider It It however when hon the c 46 cent cent rate al allows atlow at- at lows low Bak oil on to be sold here hereto to the tho exclusion c. of or Utah product |
