| Show SALT LAKE LAIE WANTS ANTS V RATE REDUCTION Local Mercantile Interests Preparing to Present Their Demands jASK ASK TARIFF ADJUSTMENT nil em I Mou I Itc Will WillI I or i or I by liv Rim a t Vho WIl Object to 0 Mileage e Hal Bab In Iii II line hue with wih the tIme petition recently submitted b u tho Commercial COI club o of Denver asking for lower and amid equitable freight rates from froni the cast east Salt Lake Ci City ity mercantile Interests are arc now a nl at work through a n committee drafting a memorial to the time value departments o othe of oC the western vestern railroads with wih the hope o or of taking from this ci city the time name of or belog bong hein bo he- in log ng the time point of or highest freight rates jim in n the United States an and obtaining what they regard as an equitable ad ud- ud V This petton petition or demand according to the point of or view lew will vili call cal atten aten- aten tion ton to lo the fact that Salt Sait Lake Lalic Is the natural distributing point for Cor the time wc western west tern t- t ern eIn Inter lc region lol and In spite of the Increase in Jim trade at this point freight ht rates are arc apparently placed at ata ata ata a point ju Judged gell at nt what the Interests will wi stand rather than actual service rendered V Wants tt of if Cities Along this line lne Chicago o Is demanding demand ul 11 lug ing that the thc western railroads readJust readjust read read- just jUl the thC differential i between Chicago and amid St. St 81 Iolli Louis s la Ku City Cily and antl Missouri ls ouri l' l points are an al asking ln for a reduction of fi eight fleight rates that will give g them an advantage over 1 0 Chicago o. and Denver wants freight frel ht rules rates to lO the tue th middle ml mid amid die dle west ivest wet made to break at that cIty cr so as to tl place the tho merchants merchant there on on a parity amIty with wih Chicago and Missouri river rl el jobbers The rho request of oC most of oC these cities i is to 1 the lle effect that thal they be ue me lE regarded alICIa a as distributing centers and that thc they receive reccie such freight rates as will re restrict restrict re- re re-I re strict competition In hum that territory In oth oth-M I words It lean means a break as railroad railroad rail rail- ral- ral road ad men put pu i it at each of these cities cit cli- ci- ci ies les ann and that the tho rate lute to lO a U point beyond hond ho- ho nr yond nd will wi be made malle up of or th lh sum um of oC he time local rate Into Inlo the city plus th the local rate te out of oC the city to the point of destination Objections of Railroads i Railroad men muon raise man many objections to o the these e requests especially to tho those e which a ask li that rates rate b be made to bl break al alon in Pit a certain city Chief of these thee ob- ob is that the thc adoption of such sucha a plan would result in lii a mileage freight tariff which would make mala rates ales prohibitively high to the consumer or 01 unreasonably low In Into to the railroads One prominent who has Ii kept in touch with wih the situation said ald That there are some som thin things that nr are not nol equitable in imi the present le enl adjustment adjust adjust- ment mt of oC freight ht rates mu may be admitted but I am nun convinced that the thc only thing that can cami bt he bl done dono is to hear the thu e Hn- Hn plaints ma made c through h various commercial com corn mercial bodies lodies We Ve e will wl probably learn of or things which we can U remedy but so far as maJ making in freight ht rates break at every elY station that thinks It Is entitled to become a distributing center is concerned con con- corned i I am ur sure ul-e that can n not be he dune done It I would place rates on a mileage e basis ba ba- ba- ba sis which would never do ilo In so largo large a country |
