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Show LETTER FROM T.M. SLOAN REGARDING RE-GARDING RATES The following letters have been received re-ceived and handed us by Mr Arrington Arring-ton with the request that they be published. The subject matter is of great importance im-portance to the people of this district. dis-trict. May 20 1922. Mr. C. A. Arrington, Milford, rtah. Dear Mr. Arrington Inclosed please find a litter to Mr. Brownhill, chairman of our committee commit-tee on transportation, written by T. M. Sloan, general freight agent for the Union Pacific system and from Loa Angeles California. From the letter it appears that we can get rates on carload lots of produce pro-duce that will enable us to compete with other sections of the country shipping the same kind of produce to the same market. The thing for us to do is to raise larger quantities of standard products and then apply for markets and transportation rates. I am very truly, H. A. Chrirtensen. County Agricultural Agent. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM May 15. 1!21 Committee on Transportation, Chamber of Commerce, Beaver City. Utah. Dear Sir I have your letter of April 2Sth, with reference to freight rates on commonditie3 produced in yi.ur district. dis-trict. The procedure to follow to secure rates other than those now in effect is to write me fully on each commodity, commod-ity, stating quantity grown and the points to which you propose shipping, ship-ping, and we will see to it that no discrimination or prejudice will be practiced against your community. You mention that a number of shipments of farm produce have been made to Los Angeles wh'ch were discouraging dis-couraging to shippers, and refer particularly par-ticularly to five eases of eggs. I want to say frankly that it will be impracticable for you to attempt to market your products in this city In less than carload lots. Southern California is an immense egg-producing district and eggs rre generally general-ly as cheap here as they are almost ting egg3 from Petaluma continuously continuous-ly in carload lota at the rate of 73c per 100 lbs., or 1 1-3 cents per dozen. doz-en. We also receive many carload shipments of eggs from San Diego, from which point the rate is 35 l-2c or about 3-4 cents per dozen. Some eggs are received from Kansas in carload lot3 under rate of $3.00 per 100 lbs. or about 5 1-2 per dozen. The distance from Milford to Los Angeles is 577 miles, o. about the same as it is from Petaluma; and while your rate is $1.37 J-2 carloads, or 2 1-2 per dozen, and $2.05 less carloads or about 4 1-2 per dozen, I am willing to reduce the carload rate to 73c, which is that applying from Petaluma, if there is ary prospect whatever of carload movements. In the first place, I wculd ask you to remember that this is a city of 750.000 or 800,000 peojle, and eggs can only be handled profitably in carload lots. This is true of other commodities such as celery. It will be interesting to you to know that some 10 or 15 carloads of celery have recently come in here from Florida under a rate of about $2.50 per 100 lbs. plus icing charge of approximately $100 per car, while your rate is-but $1.35 per 100 lbs! Much Better Quality Your rate on potatoes to Los Angeles An-geles is 45 cents per 100 lbs. while from Stockton, California, which produces a large quantity of potatoes for this market, the rate is 35 1-2 c. The distance from Milford is 577 miles and from Stockton 39 miles, or nearly 200 miles less than from Milford. Your potatoes ire cf much better quality and should demand at least 20c per 100 lbs, higher than the Stockton potato. I am certain you would find a ready rea-dy market for both celery ard potatoes pota-toes in this city, but they will have to be produced In quantities and of good! quality and be handled economically. econo-mically. You mention rates from Pocatello as compared with the rate from Milford. Mil-ford. From the above you will understand under-stand why the rate from Pocatello is as low as it is in other words, we have to make rates whi-h will put the Idaho potatoes in th r market in competition with the S'ockton potatoes. pota-toes. You are much be'ier situated than the Idaho people and should be able to take cire of yourselves und-der und-der the present rate. In your letter you stare that it is possible to ship a carload of produce from Pocatello to Chicago fo- approx imately one-half less than your farmers far-mers hav to pay on the same class of goods. I do not know to just what produce you refer, but the rate on potatoes from Pocatello to Chicago is 83 cents, distance 1547 miles, while the rate from Milford is $1.10, 1717 miles. The rate on honey from Pocatello to Chicago is $1.35 carloads; car-loads; rate from Milford !s the same. In the first paragraph of your letter let-ter you want to know whether or not Milford could be made p common shipping point. I do not know just what you mean by this, and would ask you to further explain. If you mean we Bhould make the same rates rat-es from M.'lford eastbound that apply ap-ply from Salt Lake City. I will say that this would not.be consistent but it would be consistent to give you the same rates from Milford to Chicago that apply fro mpoints on the Short Line a like distance frorr. Chicago. Very truly your3, T. M. SLOAN, G. F. A. |