Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-07-10 | Page 10 | Coal Rate Not Unreasonable

COAL RATE NOT UNREASONABLE Washington, July 10. The Interstate Inter-state commerce commission yesterday yester-day ruled that the rate of $5 per ton on coal from Sunnyslde. Utah, to Helena. Hele-na. Mont.. In carload lots. Is not 6hown to be unreasonable, but It also holds that the recent advance to $ 10 Is unreasonable, and orders a reduction reduc-tion to the old rate of $o This de cislon is rendered on complaint of the Montana railroad commission act Ing for the Helena Light & Railway company against the Denver & Rio Grande. Oregon Short Line and Northern North-ern Pacific railroads. While the rate of $5 seems high on a haul of 677 miles, the commission finds It Is not exorbitant In view of frequent steep grades and sharp curves along the line traversed. oo