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Show u o HEN SEEK LOWER FREIGHT Salt Lake, Jan 21 A systematic campaign is to be made by the Utah W'oolgrowers association in an en deavor to procure better and more equitable rates on the transportation of sheep from summer to winter ranges and vice versa, in Utah, Nevada Ne-vada and Idaho A meeting has been called for Friday afternoon in the association offices of a special committee com-mittee appointed at the recent convention con-vention of the organization to gather gath-er data and place the matter before the railroads The committee consists con-sists of J W. Thornley of Davis county, chairman; Henry Moss of Dals county, Thomas Austin of Salt Lake. Peter Clegg of Tooelerand W. A Crane of Harrlman. The association maintains that the rates charged by the railroads for local shipments of heep are altogether alto-gether too high, and generally discriminatory, dis-criminatory, in favor of the lnrge shipper as against the small producer. produc-er. Their protest is based mainly on the fact, they say. that the charge for one car of sheep is often 100 per cent more than that per car of ten or more cars A revision along this line will be sought in addition to a general reduction of ihipping charges. Thousands and thousands of sheep are moved twice annually. either from southern Idaho points to southern south-ern Utah or the desert regions of western Utah and eastern Nevada. Under the present tariffs, the wool-growers wool-growers maintain, only the large shipper who can ship in trainlonds Is enabled to patronize the railroads while the small shipper, who can use probably only a car or two at a shipment, because of the high freight Is obliged to travel overland with his sheep from the summer to his winter range and vice versa This method is not only Inconvenl ent, but Involves much time. Not only that, but if the reductions debired are not granted the growers who travel overland say they will have to purchase permanent campsites camp-sites along the route of travel This will be necessary, they state, because with the growth of population in what were once sparsely settled regions, re-gions, land is not so available as in years ago, and consequently for the most part, they assert campsites now are limited to the highways, as the farmers are not inclined to the idea of sheep grazing on their lands, even over night. The growers point out that in as much as the railroads derhe no mean revenue from the wool industry indus-try in Utah that they should be willing will-ing to make a few concessions to the producers They point to the fact that the per mile per car rate on shipments to Missouri river common points is approximately 13 cents Why not grant the Utah growers a rate of about 15 cents per mile per car on transportations from summer to winter ranges and vice versa, they ask. The summer ranges are for the most part In southern Idaho and eastern Utah points and in the vicinity vi-cinity of the Uintah reservation, while the principal winter ranges extend ex-tend as far west as Shafter, Nev., on the Western Pacific; Montello on 1 the Southern Pacific, Modlua on tho ! Salt Lake Route, and south from Green River on the Rio Grande. nn |