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Show A A A ffl PfflCXETT SETS I FORTH STATE'S C. P. ATTITUDE Traffic Man Claims Divorce Would Mean Higher . Rates Here HE'S FRIEND OF S. P. ' Grouping Road With Union Pacific Unwise, He Thinks WASHINGTON, Nov. 2G Careful Invi ti-nior) mto the situation which , would deyeioo by separation of fhj ran Southern Pacific and Central Pacific 'Systems has convinced business in I c . - its wltfain the State of Utah that I harm would result to that territo:;,' H j from enforcement cf the separation i decree of Ihe supreme court. H. . Prlckelt. expert representing tho stal governmenl and the i h.tmbcr. of com-I com-I merce at Salt Lake and Provo, d -I dared today before the Interstate I commerce commission, j The general result of an ImmeJI-lafe ImmeJI-lafe divorcement woul be increased transportation costs, restrictions of th i marketing area, and elimination of ! competition so far as Utah is con orncd; nerording to Mr Prlckett'e views The increased transiortal loji costs would logically result In increased increas-ed lates, he sal.', becaiiso Utah traft.o nio--nv, ,' Paeifj oOsl pqipts woij' 1 I hav e to tra'.'e! over two separate lln . Tho marketing area for Utah pro-I pro-I ducts on the .'-"ncliic coant would Shrink, he added, because of the two-line two-line haul whlcn would roplaco the. mil j present ono line movement and be-I be-I cause the Southern Pacific separated from the Central which now serves j Utah, would encourage traffic from 'competitive territory. He argued that j competition now existing for movement move-ment of traffic from Utah to tho 4fl Northern Pacific and to the Southern ' Pacific coast points would be niatcr-I niatcr-I ialiy reduced and that the Central Pacific would be 'largely dependent upon the Union Pacific." creating a. Ill situation "sometimes otherwise than in the public interest " |