Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-08-04 | Page 1 | New U. P. Rates Injure Ogden

NEW EW U. U PI RATES I INJURE OGDEN Large Part Pait of ot Nevada cada N Is Lost to Our Flour Industry New freight rate tariffs taris which pro pro- provide provide vide ide for the reduced flour grain STain and hay rates rales from the Twin Falls Fails dis dis- district district dis- dis district of or Idaho to northern California and western Nevada when shipped over o the Rogerson cutoff without pro pro- proportionate proportionate proportionate reductions for shipments through the Ogden gateway have been published by the Union Pacific Railroad company effective Septem September ber 1 1 These are the rates rales which have been opposed by the Ogden chamber of or commerce the Ogden Grain ex exchange ex- ex change chanse and the other business In Interests In- In Interests of the community Suspension Suspension sion of or the rates for three months will be asked by the chamber of or com corn commerce commerce merce In applIcation to the Interstate Commerce commission President James H II DeVine says The rates are arc so sweeping In their effect according to experts who have studied their application that the large portion of or Nevada territory has also been cut off orr from Irons the Ogden den wheat and flour traffic rates from Twin Falls to Deeth via Ogden being 10 cents higher per hundred pounds than via Ogden The new neu rates pro pro- provide provide provide vide for a basis of 50 SO cents per pounds for flour and 45 cents per pounds for wheat shipped from Twin Falls to San Francisco via Rog- Rog Rogerson erson and Wells with proportionate rates from other points In the Twin Falls area The rate via Ogden Is 57 cents for flour and 52 cents for wheat All other rates to California and western Nevada Ne points are arc pro pro- proportionate