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Show U. I. C. FILES RATE SCHEDULE Only Railroad in State Allowed to Charge Increases Today The Vtah-M.iho Central Railroad company Is the only railroad In Utah permitted to charge l tie new rates on intrastate shipments todiiv It was the only lompunv to submit a copy of the supplement to the tariff sheets to the public utilities commission wlilch gained the company authority to put In effect the now rates authorized by order of the commission bust Tuesday. LLMNGSON RESPOIVSIB E. J. Walter Ellingson, general traffic manager of the Utah-Idaho Central, was responsible for the .speed with which the new supplement was prepared pre-pared He spent all of Tuesday night In compiling the Information required. ond when Thomas E. Banning, secretary' secre-tary' of the public utilities commission, arrived at work yesterday morning he found the printed supplement lying on his desk. Other railroads came In with similar simi-lar statements during the day Roads which have their general otfices outside out-side of Utah Will not have the papers rrailj for tiling for a day or two The order requires one day's notice to the commission find to the public before the Intrastate Increases granted are made effective. O. S. L. FII Is The Oregon Short Line passenger increases. mimeographed but not printed, W' le filed with the commission commis-sion yesterday morning. This supplement supple-ment shows that the Incroaso of 20 per cent In passenger rates will be in effect on all branches of the line except ex-cept that running up Matad alley. Where the rate already was In excess of 3 cents a mile the Utah and Idaho commission alike required that no Increase In-crease In the present rate should be nia.;. The local L'tah Freight Traffic bu-' icau also filed Its supplementary schedule late yesterday afternoon, naming the effective date tomorrow. This covers freight rates between Tig-den Tig-den on the north and Payson on the south, and Includes Eureka, Mammoth and Sliver City. Supplements to tariffs are expected! to be filed by the Denver & Rio I Grande, the Southern Pacific the i Western Pacific, the Salt Lake Route j and the Union Pacific a. soon as they ! arrive from the respective head of -1 fices of those railroads. |