Show URY GOODS BUYERS ARE BY RAI RAILROADS j i BIG BIU TRIBUTE L t 1 J JA A IS DEMANDED 1 7 Salt Lake Consumers Are 1 t Forced to Pay Exorbitant Rates as Compared With r Denver and Pacific Coast 0 f WATER COMPETITION COMPETITION z 1 a USED FOR EXCUSE f W r Special Commodity Rates Are AreT W Allowed San F Francisco ran cisco Shipp Shippers Ship Ship- r r 11 p pers ors Which Are Denied Business Bustness Bust Bus i iness ness Men Who Build Utah j t Iry STORY IN TARIFF SHEETS 9 n r Each time a Salt Lake Lak Lake citizen pur purchases per pur perr r I J. J 4 chases a piece of or dr dry goods goodsIn In a Salt alt lr r Lake l I store he gives tho the operating In Utah mono money that they 9 p demand unjustly White While the Salt Lal o purchaser Is paying paving high bight prices for tor this class claRs of ot material San ban Fr Francisco nn and Denver residents Caro are arc u th same class of ot goods oo at lower U res s. s And all this material comes the front front from th tha same Sarno parts of or tho the East That Salt Is fa being discriminated against in lit freight rates on dry goods is shown hou by the published tariffs of or the railroads ran rail roads and they do not attempt to deny that Salt Lake Lae merchants pa pay more moro freight on dry goods than do San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco dealers who are arc many hundreds of ot miles farther tarther away from Crom th the Eastern East East- I ern shipping points Tho The railroads er cr cr- cr water Hater competition when trying to explain their theli peculiar methods of rate- rate for tor Salt SnIt J Lake Lkc hut In the com corn water and ind freight route Salt L Lake Lako ko still sUIl gets tho the tho worst card In lit i c the deck deck- J Much of the tho dry rY shipped chipped P d from Troia i 1 Q York to Salta sad 1 n. n cl deep cp comes comos a n p of f f 4 l t p T rh N tn oY tIek sra U VY u. u 1 estop al T Texas I S T other points paints t by y steamers The Tho freight re Is Js transferred and comes the t rest of of the distance by rail For such tier It 0 th the railroads charge Salt Lake m 01 r- r chants exorbitant rates and If Ir f t to o goods are shi shipped the entire distance from New York to Salt fealt Lake Lako the ral Tal ral roads demand mand still sUlI higher rates rate rat T I 1 shipping either b by water and rail or orby I rail call from New den I ISan by an route York fork to San Francisco the rate rata Is just t tle te o osame same 8 That portion of oC the trip rn mi Jo Job I by b water Is not considered In making the tho California tariffs Some classes of oC underwear underwent v hesler I and hundreds of other kinds hinds of at cry n goods shipped I from New York westward westward west west- ward under first class rates That rato rate from New York to Salt Snit Lake Lako Is 3 IH 14 per pei hundred pounds To Denver Deaver from New ew York fork It Is 2 34 and to San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco It ft is only 3 3 Tho The 3 3 rate also carries tho the same class of ot freight Into Portland Portland- Ore A l glance at nt those rat rates 9 will show shout that the railroads haul tho the stuff from 1 Denver to Salt Lake Lako on Its through westward rd trip for tor 80 30 cents cents- Now notice no notice notice no- no tice the eastbound tariff for tor freight of ot the same class clans From San F Francisco to New York the whole w way vay across the continent the rate rato Is 3 From FrOU Salt alt Lake to New cw York It t Is 3 73 and arill from Denver to New York It Is 7 1 jibe Tho railroads It Is easily coolly seen charge a 1 I to h haul uJ eastbound first class through freight between Salt Lak Lake arid and Denver as against SO 80 cents cent on th the tho westbound trip Some Serve of Robbery On some somo classes o of ot goods San Fran deco Is granted a special commodity rate which rate Is denied dented Salt Lake I For Tor Instance e. e cotton knit underwear cotton merino or woolen hosiery are arC listed as special commodities in tho the New York to Francisco tariffs and are transported across the United States for 2 a hundred pounds in less than carload lots Salt Lake is denied 1 that drat special rato rata and must pa pay 3 1 14 H a hundred pounds for rOT the same tariff tacit Salt Lake Is given special commodity rates on some Home articles but close Investigation will show that San Francisco merchants are given Iven aU still lower rates ratos on the same samo goods Bed comforters of r ome Wind are shipped from Crom NewYork New Nets York to Salt Lake In less than carload d lots for 2 90 a hundred pounds Tho The railroads will haul the tho tame same kind of goods In tho the same cars to San FranIsco Fran- Fran lace Isco and char charge e the merchants of ot the tha Pacific c city only a 3 hundred pound pound- While the railroads r charge e only onh 1 to haul goods goods In pee loss than carload d lots between Salt Lake and d Denver on l' l eastbound transcontinental trips yet If It n a Salt Lake merchant wishes to send senda a a. box of ot dry to Denver as first class freight he must pay the railroad t st ft 1 54 a hundred pounds The same amount Is charged to send a 8 hundred J pounds of oC the tho same samo class of nC freight from Salt lit Lake to San Francisco al- al Trough hough the transcontinental rate b be between i tween New York and the Pacific cast c ast t 8 considerably less Jess than from Now New j York to Salt Lake Any way a shipper looks at the tho question he will well find thAt that the Salt Lake man Is s getting the tha worst of or the deal Cry Crr ut Witter r Competition And while the railroads are shouting ho A Awater water competition In trying to defend I their rates on transcontinental business 9 E Eyet yet th they d d' d not explain why the rail all rate from the east cast shows a discrimination t lion flea against Salt Lake Lako On ordinary goods com coming In under first class tarIUs tarIffs tariffs tar tar- iffs IUs the railroads tax Salt Jal Lake c merchants merchants mer mor- chants 3 52 a hundred pounds for tor an rail all haul halll tram front New York to Salt I Lake Lako And tho the same railroads will haul the tiro same class of ot goods over the tho same samo tracks In the llama fame kind of ot car cars pearl pearla nearly a thousand miles farther to Sin San FranCisco Fran Fran- Cisco for or 3 a hundred hounds Bounds or 53 52 l r onto fOnts a hundred pounds toss losa than what Sat SaU Lake merchants must ray pay The Tle Suit SnIt Lake Lako merchant nt must make A n JI reasonable profit on their goods da If they wish to stay In business s. s When n their freight bills are r f-r one year added up It will be found round that they r reach ach enormous enormous enor enor- prop proportions which In to fact are re j f almost unbelievable |