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Show RATES FOR UTAH PACKERS. Not only was the proposed packing house which it is the intention to erect in Salt Lake, the public and private endorsement of prominent business men of this city, but sevoi-il of these have publicly declared their intention of supporting the movement by subscribing sub-scribing for packing house stock. Other promises of subscriptions made privately to members of the Real Estate Es-tate association appointed to urge the erection of the packing house justifies the belief that the necessary capital will be secured within ten days. According to a member of the committee, com-mittee, ground will be broken for the new plant by the middle of August. Since the project was first taken up by the Real Estate association, negotiations negotia-tions looking toward the absorption of local killers, big and small, in the proposed movement, have been on foot. It is expected that within a few days an agreement will be arrived at, insuring a nucleus for the, nterpri.se and skilled conduct of future business. Such a favorable issue would mean a concentration of moans and efforts at the outset for the accomplishment of the purpose of the movement. Facilities Needed in "West. Concerning the packing house project. pro-ject. J. C. Leary yesterday said: "The continuance of the strike among the employes of Swift, Armour. S. and S., Morrte, Cudahy and the National emphasizes the need of the .West of a distribution of facilities for preparing and prf serving the me?.t supply of the country which will distribute dis-tribute the receipts of live animals between a larger number of markets. As the situation now stands the eastern east-ern live stock markets are practically tied up, and western stockmen shut out from marketing, until one side or the other recedes from the position it has taken; while consumers here and elsewhere will not only put up with the inconvenience the struggle occasions, occa-sions, but will likewise put up for every dollar of its cost in the increased price they will pay for packing house products for a coming twelve months or longer period. ' Tariffs From Salt Lake. "At the instigation of intei:ted men of means in sympathy with the work of the committee, a study of tariffs showing rates on live stock from territory terri-tory which will provide supplies of cattle, sheep, hogt, and lambs, largely in excess of any estimates of the market's mar-ket's needs made, by the most enthusiastic enthusi-astic of its supporters has been completed. com-pleted. This scrutiny of the rates in j question discloses the fact that with a few exceptions the rates into Salt Lake from the feeding districts of the state . are lower by from ten to twenty dol lars per car than thone prevailing in the territory tributary to Denver, and from which that market draws its supplies. The bulk of the supplies required here for some years will be drawn from a region about Salt Lake on an average rate of $35 per car, as against a $50 average for the Denver market, and one of $45 for those on the Missouri river. This is due to the fact that our best feeding districts, including Utah, Sanpete San-pete and Sevier valleys on the south, and Salt Lake, Da.vis and Weber coun- ties. Bear river and Cache on the north, are nearer to Salt Lake than similar districts of Colorado, with one or two exceptions, are to Denver. "Our Tooele county feeders can market mar-ket their fat stuff on a $25 rate in Salt Lake without concessions from the present charges: and clear on to the southern limits of the state shippers ship-pers can reach the home market under existing tariffs at figures of cost ranging rang-ing from $35 at Oasis, and $40 at Mil-ford, Mil-ford, to $75 at Nevada, the state line. "Factory feeders at Lehl get a $14 rate, and the Utah valley ones a $20 ! one. whilp lhf Npnhi and Rush vallev ! producers pay from $32 to "$35. As against these charges to Salt Lake, the rates to the Missouri river markets range from $130 to $155, and from $100 to $120, approximately, to Denver. I "The rates to Salt Lake from Denver j & Rio Grande points in Sanpete county are $dz per car: rrom sauna, $39: from Richfield and Elsinore, $42 and $43, re- spectively, and. from Marysvale, $45. : Thistle Junction and Heber take a $30 ' rate, and the latter is the center of a big feeding district. "On . the north the Short Line maximum max-imum rate from Bear River valley points is $24; from Cache valley and stations to the Idaho line, $28, and east on the Short Line as far as Granger, $42. Shippers from Rexburg and St. Anthony An-thony can market at Salt Lake for $65 ' and $69 per car, and from any point , south of Butte at a maximum of $72. "i The rate from Idaho Falls is $45, from American Falls and the Snake river E feeding district, $46; from Shoshone, e $64; Hailey branch points, ?70 and $72, 5 jan1 the highest of Boise valley points, "The river rates from all these ship- ' I ping places is double the maximum I rate named to Salt Lake, approximate- ly. and those to Denver are but $20 to E $30 less than river figures. "These figures, in the scope of pro- t ducing country they cover, should re- move all doubt of securing sunnllp nt $ animals on the hoof for the proposed I plant under comparatively favoring Si transportation rates, and the inquiry of ' I the committee into the question of dls- ' i tributlve rates on the products of the I-packing I-packing plant establishes that the pre- P vailing class rates to points this market Ij is likely to supply within the first five fci years of Its distribution are abundant- K iy protec of the local operators, if I no concessions are secured as a result f! of an increase of business. jj Comparison of Finished Product. 1 "The rates from the 'big river plants p to Salt Lake now on fresh meat, ex- 1 f3 elusive of the refrigerating charge, Is j P $1.40 per hundred, and on mixed ship- ;3 ments $1.18; and consignments of thi3 ! M sort can only be distributed from this ! U center by adding the local. ri "Therefore, the products of the local P j plant could be distributed over the i ' I state to the points named at the fol- : lowing figures of cost: Bingham, 16 ! cents;; Ogden and Park City, 20 cents; Provo, 25 cents; Tintic, 50 cents, as against the Missouri river rate of $1.40 E! to Salt Lake, plus the local quoted.. E The Salt Lake output could go into ali f-Idaho f-Idaho points at an average of about 5 u cents per hundred pounds, and into Z Butte on a 90-cent rate. "The quotations made are sufficient I to show that a local establishment would not labor under considerable disadvantages in the matter of rates. f if an effort to secure a more favorable li adjustment were unsuccessful; and in fc the meantime local traffic officials ar I cordial in their expression of good will f towards the upbuilding of the city and I1 the expansion of its trade, as well as outspoken In their desire to co-operat 1 i, for the development of the resources ? of the state." |