Show TWIN FALLS AND AND ROGERSON CUTOFF e i At a banquet banque of ot the Idaho Wool Wool- growers growers' grower association held at It Twin Falls Thursday a number of oC the the question 4 speakers brought Up tip of ot the Twin Falls Wells Rogerson-Wells er Wells on-Wells cutoff Asher B. B Wilson president nt of oC the Twin Falls chamber of oC commerce r devoted de his talk entirely en reb to rates calling attention to the need Deed of se securing securing curing cur ng as good rates from Idaho points into California as were now available to Utah shippers from Crom Utah common points Especially did he be emphasize the need of oC open open- opening ing log the Twin Wells Falls line to transcontinental shipping He called attention to a rate meet meet- meeting meetIng meeting ing at Chicago on August 30 saying the chamber of oC commerce had voted to pay one half the cost of oC sending a representatives there to plead for lower er rates and asked that the pay pa the other half haU Sherman Coffin executive secretary of the Idaho Rate association Lion tion said there was not a commod commodity com mod I ity shipped out of oC the state com compared pared in equality with those in oth oth- other er states So far he declared the Wells Wells-Rogerson Wells Wells-Rogerson cutoff was a handi handl handicap handicap cap rather than a a. help although from Twin Falls to San Francisco via that route the distance was but 31 miles while vla via Ogden it itaas was as 1030 miles mUes To route transcontinental freight over the Twin Falls line would call for the sending of trains from the main line of oC the Union Pacific through Granger over the mountain grades by way Yay of oC Kem Kern and on west to Twin Falls and south over oyer the cutoff to Wells Nev Whenever the Union Pacific attempts a diversion of oC traffic in that manner It will be inviting a amore amore amore more intensive competition from the Denver and Rio Grande West Yest Western ern em and Western Pacific A A. somewhat similar proposal but far more economical one was made when E. E H H. Harriman was in con con- control control of the th Union Pacific and South South- Southern ern Pacific Surveys were made for tor a road from Saline north through to Burley Burle and Twin Falls and It was proposed to send freight trains from Green River to Ogden and on to the northwest through Saline Saline instead ot of through Granger and Pocatello and in sup Sup- support up port of ot the project it was said that the route to Ogden had the advantage advantage I tage ot of eliminating grades and i curves curvel I Those Thos who vho have ha studied the I Rogerson cutoff grain b rates claim claim 1 that Twin Falls Fails will gain nothing I Iland by the reduced rates as the Port land gateway to the export trade rade I continues to have a margin m of ad ad- advantage vantage The San grain I market is not as good as the Og Og- Ogden Og-j Og Ogden den market which is at the roads ot of the country From Ogden grain moves mo in all directions and and here the highest bids daily dally received from other grain centers deter determines mines the price Once wheat reaches San Francisco it must ac ac- accept accept ac- ac accept San Francisco quotations There is no alternative But Ogden does not object to Twin Falls and all that region get get- getting getting ting tine better railroad rates rales When When- Whenever Whenever ever Idaho is successful is beating I down the schedules this part of Utah must participate in tho the bene bene- fits No doubt do bt the the entire inter- inter intermountain intermountain intermountain mountain territory suffers because of railroad rate discriminations |