Show CIRCUIT COURT DECISION IS ADVERSE The circuIt court decisIon In tile the i famous River Rhel rate rato case caso made public yesterday Is 1 a 11 setback for the tho Salt Lake Lalo commercial bureau which hUH hits appealed to the tho Corn Com merco commission and Is au an uphold I lug Ing of time the railroad contention as the points decIded bear directly on the tho Salt Lal Lake c grievances Tire Tho railroad people In the tho Salt Lake Lako case casc defend their rates rales by bj claImIng that for example on a commodIty shIpped from Pittsburgh t I Salt Lake City Uw the rate Is Perhaps a tion of time the rate front from Pittsburgh to Chicago plus pitis the ilia rate from to the Missouri river rier pUB the rate from tile the Missouri river to Salt Lake Cit City ii A a rule lule the Ole sum or these local rates Is lOSs Jess than the sum of oC the rate from the tho East to the tho PacIfic Coast plus tho local rate from tIm tho PacIfic Coast back bacle to the Inland point But If Ie tw rail lines make mako a reduced h rate to r competition It may happen that the new ItC through rate rato from Cram New York or 01 or OI Chicago to the tho coast plus the tho local oeal rate back to Salt Lake City for example will bo be lower Luau tue of the rates rales dl real ho 10 Salt Lake City rho Railroad speaking or ortho orthe the tho Salt Lake Lalta complaInt says sars Thoro Thore are through rates ates from flom the UIO Atlantic to the tho pa cilia There are also through rates from time tho Atlantic the Atlantic and Gulf GuU ports to tf western inland It will naturally lie wh vII t through rates rateD are 10 not also from tilo tho East to western Inland points bus bas basIng busing Ing on Pacific Coast terminals The Tho Thor r reason aBon Is tIlls this The lines hues cast or of Olli cago and the tho river uc no copt ver low proportions on destined to tile ho Pacific Coast Tile do thIs b because aimless RS low rates are to UH coast the tho traffic will move liv by witter But traffic Irom the tho East to Utah cannot move b by least not all this tho way war Consequently tito tho eastern roads refuse to unite with ith the western ron roads K In making through all rail rai to poInts In these theMO and anI oIlier Interior but ut Insist on having their local rates or proportion ci rato rates on only slightly lower to tho up upper upper per lIs crossings stand of the tho c eastern roads scorns Justin able Since thoy the take Ull stood tho roa roads naturally desire desira to maIntaIn their bed rates ratos also for if IC Lila dId not tile tho would hao to ab all ull of tho th the tho or of the and any auy tOWel lOWel pro that might he be I I This water Is lii In great There Is little or no wat water r competition from the I to 1 the Coast on of oC the tho I arUcos arUck on which the freight rates are Yet et the railroads gre great t stress on traffic whIch will move moc b by water If the are not allowed to I pace a heIT heay hand band upon the tho inland I clUes cities |