Show i 1 pR e y WOOL RATS RATES Y m W FOUGHT Mountain State Growers Declare Proposals Help Coast Most SALT LAKE Jul Juli Jul A 30 30 A A brief containing the principal is of the National Wool growers asso asso- association association to be presented to the In- In Interstate li commerce asks Carload rates on wool from tt tl o e Pacific coast COAt and intermediate e c to the eat east ta t on a considerably loner lo level leel thin th now in force tore or oras oras oras as proposed b bi by the carriers should e be established just reasonable an I 1 II I non rates on hoot should be established from Inter I mediate territory to Pacific coast I ports locally and cs 3 proportional rats rates aud and the application of the theto he for authority to Pacific lit coast to the eat castrates rates ae of 1 I 35 on wool sool in balAs bal s ml mum weight U pounds poem s should be denied The Tho brief was as prepared by II W of ot Salt lake lahe Th r wool rat rates Investigation was IndU instituted 1 toted by t i commission a on mn oat its mo- mo motion mo motion tion and involved oh cd an Inquiry Into I Ithe the rat rates on wool shipped from mm the Pacific coast and Inte ec points to the cist elst and on wool shipped from Intermediate points to the Pacific P coast HEARING G rJ A hearing was held in Salt Lake April 30 1923 before Howard C I nul examiner attorney caminer tor for tile the commission The brier brief sets out arguments I asking aking for tor the denial of ot the all au- au of at o the carriers reopened t by the investigation to establish rate rates on wool In sacks acks and bales bals I from Pacific coast terminals to Dos Dos- Doston Doston ton Eos-ton ton In Atlantic seaboard territory I and Intermediate territory Which are alleged to be lower loner 10 er than the I rates maintained on like traffic Intermediate points of origin orlgia The brief sets out thit the large larg majority of toe n are arc op- op opposed op opposed posed to the carriers application and rates rats proposed at nt the hearings by the national association In in as an endea endeavor or to bring about the estan- estan establishment of a rate atc structure that Would be equitable not only to 0 In all sections of the west but to the the carriers as well The The rates are arp accompanied by a 1 careful analysis showing sho wing that th their lr establishment would result more beneficially to the California Ore Ore- Oreon on pon on and Washington carriers con con- conIs cons con s s dered a as a whole than those pro pro- proposed proposed pro proposed posed by the carriers carrier Is Oregon ind Washington ers did not concur in the tho general objection to the application of ot the th carriers ARGUMENTS AKE UE POINTED proposed by the wool wool- wool growers growers at the hearings of or 2 1 on sacked wool from Pacific coast ports to Boston applied as a maxi maxI- maxImum maximum maximum mum at Intermediate points con con- consIdered considered con considered In connection with the pro pro- proposed proposed pro proposed posed plan of grading the rates from approximately 1 70 at Chey Chey- Cheyenne Cheyenne Cheyenne enne to 2 47 3 at Pacific coast ports would result in a R 2 blanket rate rat extending from Pacific coast ports in an easterly direction to points where the graded would l make less which points Ogden den Would be approximately Butte Dutte Og- Og 0 den and Gallup N K M J according to 10 the argument In the brief favor favor- favoring favoring avor- avor ing the Iho establishment of higher r rates for Pacific coast points In the tho argument for the establishment establishment establishment of rates from Intermediate poInts to Pacific coast ports local local- locally locally locally ly as proposed by the ers the tho brief sets Bets out that the present rate on wool In sacks is I 1 35 Salt Lake to San Francisco while the proposed rate would be I 1 beI 18 |