| Show I r I I I SMALL SALL FIRMS I STRUCK HARD BY RAILWAYS A Remarkable Example I of Minor Discrimination i Against Utah Concern D fi COMPANY GETS FA FAVOR VOR Oregon Oreg-on Short Line Letter Read With Some Interest and andr 1 M Much uch r ON MILLING IN TRANSIT 1 Glittering Generalities and n d' d Littie Lit Lite tie MOre In the Communication ComI Com Com- pm r j I j iw J j jOne t One ne of the min I pies of freight rat im J by re by the railroads of Utah is seen in inthe inthe inthe the shipments to the smelters smelt- smelt ers The American Smelting Smelting Smelt Smelt- ting t- t ing Refining company is allow allowed d a rate of 40 cents a aton aton aton ton on lime rock from Top I Lift to Murray a distance distance- about 60 miles luHcs The route toute is along the main of the Salt Lake Route to Lehi where it extends out on the Cedar Valley branch A smaller company ships clay from Pleasant Grove t to Murray Murray Murray Mur Mur- MurI I ray a distance of about 38 miles and the railroad ch charges 70 cents a ton for this shorter haul haur Members of the Commercial club traffic bureau considered WIth Interest and anti amusement yesterday the tao long statement of or the railroad side of ot the thc pre t discussion cU lon freight ht aJ c w ppe 1 J 1 I n i tl tu to th l Will 11 ibe bej cons pd 1 I formulated fc 1 by 1 the bureau lit In the n near r future minds minds' Plausible It Is a I. I cleverly wOI worded statement I of the thc railroad side of f the question and to the man who Is not contributing heavily to the annual tribute demanded demand demand- e ed by the railroads for tor the privilege of or doing business l in Utah the statement InU may maul sound plausible said a m member of ot th the traffic bureau burc-au last nl night ht It Is apparent nt from the tho tone of the article that tl the WI wl wishes hes to Infer inter that It has been the tho Influence ence ence of the Oregon Short Line that tins las built up the big Industries of ot the state while the Denver Rio illo Grande and aud the Salt Sail Lake Inke Route Haute have been aver averse e eto to lending any encouragement t. t to the industries of or the state Mr tr says an Illustration of or orthe the rate adjustment In the Intermountain Intermountain intermountain Inter- Inter mountain country would show that the railroads realize their business I partnership with the community and I there at least I agree agree- with him This railroads railroads rail rail- I Illustration also shows hows that the roads feel the re responsibility of or this I partnership so keenly that they de demand demand domand do- do mand from 10 to per cent more moro morea moreil a il nH thc their ther r hare In the profits of or over every merchant farmer pro producer or consumer consumer con con- I sumer sumner in iii Utah than they do from the people of or other states slates A Circlets Reference This Thi letter carelessly calls attention attention attention atten atten- tion to tho the flour milling Industries strung all alJ along the thoa regon Short I Line whose output seeks consumption I Inot not only locally hut but in centers reached on long hauls and find ut at rates which which- It has been n necessary to reduce repeatedly repeated repeated- I ly with milling in iii tran transit privileges have been established anti and which are continually hein being extended In iii order to facilitate thir business Right night there the subject I Is en ended on the part paT of ot the time railroads Mr 11 Reeves might ht have continued on th the theline theline line of at milling In tran transit t rates and said that although the Harriman lines lIn s and others grant the Colora Colorado o millers tho the I milling In transit privilege absolutely free the Oregon Short L no holds up the Utah antI and Idaho millers for tor 2 1 2 1 cents a hundred and after charging th them m for or the privilege which costs the tho railroads nothing the Oregon Short Line grants only 90 days to Utah and Idaho millers and the Colorado millers millers mill multi ers have six months lie might aught have ha also have added that freight rates from Idaho nn and Utah j are arc such that an any miller in fn Salt Lake wh who manufacturers Hour for the tho Los Angeles market or 01 for Cor export is handicapped handi handt- capped Just 12 2 3 2 cents a hundred as compared compare with the Los Ang Angeles miller who brings his wheat over o the same sante lines from Idaho The trouble with the presentation of the time railroad side of or the controversy contro contro- vcrs versy Is that It spoke in terms of glittering generalities It explained the tha law of or average o profits profits' at length and an then thell made no imo comment on the th fact that the rates for Utah require this state to make up the average of profit t for the whole country countr The Thc I burden burder Is put lUt on Utah Just because wo we have havo been foolish enough h to stand tand tot for jit it B By the thc way ay did you ou notice that Mr i I said s. nothing about the rate i on wool from Utah to Boston Doston at I and the rate from front San Francisco at 1 I TimEs This discrimination practiced under th the cu gu u se so of competitive water rates costs 0 Utah 1 a year ns as dividends dividends divi divi- to our partners In Iii business the thern rn railroads road |
