Ogden Morning Examiner and Morning Standard | 1909-06-27 | Page 4 | This Region Has Been Bled by Railroads

Mi s R O rr LEb RAILROADS i oo 4 h irry freight through h this t 1 s cj o JH delivered in ini i San Francisco for Cor loss than the same freight Is unloaded In Ogden are making millionaires many times limes mil mU millionaires by paying big dividends in addition to meeting heavy hen expendi expend expenditures I tures ares for road roa Improvements In an anticipation of o an expanding business There Is no surprise occasioned by bythe bythe the disclosure that Utah merchants pay po pa an enormous tax above alloe and an anbe beyond be ond that Is paid by b Coast people to the railroads Some one must be unfairly assessed to provide for fol ten per cont cent dividends on an over Ocr capitalized system of railroads and I this some one is the lie consumer in tho the intermountain country who pays freight rates ratos equal to lo charged for fOl freight carried from Chicago to San Francisco and an on top of or that thal about per pel cent more moreNo moreNo moreNo No one for a nt will tho ho thought that the railroads haul beans by the tho carload from San Fran Francisco cisco for 15 a n ton lon and lose money mone anti and yet y t on some sonic kinds of o freight not I J more difficult d to haul or handle handlo they tho charge 4 47 when consigned d to Ogden Ogdon sob SOO miles nearer the point of ship shill shipment ment t These railroads charge 30 0 a ton in carload lots on bath tubs lubs shipped to San Francisco consigned to Og Ogdon 0 Ogden don den they charge as high as al R a aton ton The wonder Is how this section has hashu hash hu ht hui huIt h It 1 ilp jn fr s competition foro r em P U V i o I i IiI 1 ju I fJ jJr JI so soC rI C r IThe The estates have ht n j tf pro ji fe e dividends for or eastern stock stockholders stockholders holders of the fic big hi It Is about time lime to put an end to those discriminatory discrIminator rates rales If the railroads cau can transport I freight fre from Chicago to San Fran Francisco Francisco cisco at al a profit at al present rates they the should he be forced to extend equally favorable rates rules to this region on a I J mileage basis hasis