Show RAILROAD CHIEF IS WIlLI N U U TO AS col 1 r IA v 4 rl Traffic Bureau Gets Courteous C C urte Letter from fro In President Harris of the Burlington The opening pun gnu ruu In Jn the lie n r or e nimble c-nimble freight ht rates MItes for Utah has hns been l h by the time Comm Club Climb bureau b hy by lug Ins bound copies cOlle of the lie l h b appeal to the s for or fair treatment to Iii PI lIons welt cli of the Vio cabinet cabi net imet each emich railway M evident In tho ho Un Ln States the state Inter Commerce C time the of ot the Inter mountain state of I rtuh tali Ii Ir city nn I COIl count I y am and ot others I ic The SetS HrS ets forth foith Utah's urr from rn ra t tes I i and Janel sonio omo of the lt mt mst the time state The Co 1 Club e cain bureau declare s that it has lias emily opened time the lIht II bj by the lime distribution H of thi the appeal appeal- and asks ks k for fur the lime ass of and amid hu lu s In- In In Interests Interests I of time tho state statu 1 In Jn on n. The book was v complied b by Stephen H. H Babcock commissioner loner of traffic of the bureau v who ho secured the data for tho the work ork from the published tar tar- of or the railroads s. s His Ills personal I knowledge of conditions also alsa entered 1 the makeup of the book The he books book I were sent out b by registered mall mail and nearl nearly all of f them have hae been rc received elved I as receipts show Already Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- Babcock has received a n reply from front one of or the railroad presidents who extends his hope for and offers his assistance to the fair adjustment of rates in the near future The letter Is from George B. B Harris of or the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad company who with Ith his charI characteristic characteristic char char- I and prompt courtesy under date late of the tho wrote to Mr Babcock as follows Mo Letter Just as I am leaving the time city for something l more than a weeks week's absence ab ab- ab sence there com comes os to hand a copy of or the time petition of or the Bureau of nt the thc Salt bait Lake Lak Commercial club The I b beauty i t of i- i ith the th binding is only equaled by the elegance and ond force Corce of or the dl did did- lion tion und and all an together only a n fair re re- re I trust of the opulence and prosperity of the tho members There Ther hag ban been no time Ume to make a lI careful analysis of asking askIng asking ask ask- nm and so I am taking the ing you as an acquaintance to make m my acknowledgments for the tile favor Cavor wherever the acknowledgments ought to togo KO 0 I We e would like to have all transportation Ii tation rates so nicely adjusted that tho the equilibrium between persona places commodities and railroads w uld bo ho perfect but with active competition be between between be- be II tween persons and arid places and with F one ono commodity naturally seeking to Ii displace another and railroads trying I to servo serro all It Is III difficult to see how howan howan an exact equilibrium can be found You I and I have been somewhat familiar Ii with the transportation UOn In the tho West IVest cst for a good many years practically practically cally caBy perhaps ever since railroad transportation transportation trans trans- I displaced other forms forma I j will read the paper carefully later and If Ie able to contribute anything to toa t I a it mutually satisfactory adjustment I will be glad to do doso o so so |