Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-26 | Page 15 | Coal Rate Case Set for Hearing

II COAL RATE CASE ) SET FOR HEARING- SALT LAKE. Feb. 25. The Traffic Service bureau of Utah has filed a brief with the interstate commerce commission In behalf of the Utah coal mine, operators protesting the action of the uregon Short Line railroad in establishing rates on cou.1 from Wyoming Wyo-ming mines to points In Utah on a parity with rates from Utah mlnea I io the same point.- The case Is to lie heard in Salt Lake. February be-z be-z fore Attorney-Examine) E5. u. Gaddeea The protcstants praj that the com mission reject lariti .supplements providing pro-viding for the rates now under suspension sus-pension and that rates alread) allowed ' lb points north ot Ugdun be disallow ed. The coal mine operators oi L'tuh base their complaints on the following follow-ing facts set lorth in the conclusion of the brief: c "That under the measurement of a h Just and reasonable rate, such as oper- atlng conditions, traffic density, com- . petition and length Ol haul, rates from Utah mines to I tail point should bj made lower than those which apply from Wyoming to the same points, that If this condition Is n't maintained thero win result a violation of section l nf the Inters: ito i ommerce act, "That there is now a discriminatory A adjustment against Utah mines In fa vor ot Wyoming mines to points north I of McCammon. Idaho; that so long I as ths condition exists, to permit Wyoming coals to compete on D parity with Utah coals merely adds t'. the discrimination and further Violates section 3 of the act. That the solo reason advanced by C the carriers for this readjustment Is a supposed inferiority of the Wyoming jj ' cohI; If this difference of quality la sufficient to take cognizance of which 1 your protcstants will not admit, such difference In quality Is a mine disability, dis-ability, a commercial equation which the commission, time and again has re-i re-i tused to equalize." a .-tr