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Show RATE RID ON UTAH PIG RON L. F. Rains of Columbia ! Steel Co. Operations Makes Announcement. I SALT LAKE Nov. IS. Announce-'mcnt Announce-'mcnt was made today by L F. Kaina Iin chorgc of organization of the Col-umbl.i Col-umbl.i Steel company, who is now en-J en-J gaged in preliminary work for th' erection of a blast furnnc between ISprlngvllle and Provo. that the Southern Pacific company. In connection connec-tion with tho Bamberger electric and the Salt Lake & Utah rallrond, has agreed to a rate of J5.25 a ton. 2240 pounds, pig Irnn from the Provo-Sprlngvllle Provo-Sprlngvllle district to Pittsburg, Cal , ar.il 1 : 1 terminal points ThH r.it. 6 Z'o Is equivalent to 23 4 cents per 100 pound and according ac-cording to Mr. P.alns will be the foundation foun-dation for financing largo Iron and steel developme nt DAILY PRODUCTION. The production of tho first unit of the blast furnace neiw authorized and under way by the Columbia Steel company com-pany will bo 500 tons per day. At the present lime there are no special commodity com-modity rates from Utnh to California points on pig iron since none is pro-'duced pro-'duced hero The present rate from Chicago to California is Sf, cents per 1 100 pounds anel from Pueblo, Colo., (57 cents per 100 pounds. It will be noted that the new rate from Utah is lCo.s than 28 per cent of the rate from J Chicago, whereas the distance from Utah Is 34 per cent of the distance from Chicago to California. As com-pan com-pan 1 With the rate from Pueblo the i Utah rato Is -10 per cent, whereas the i distance is 54 per cent in other words, the rate from Utah aa compared with Chicago and Pueblo Is a much smaller smal-ler iiercentago of their rates than the distance from Utah is to their distances. dis-tances. PRESENT RATE 57 CKNTS. The only rate available for use from Utah at this time is 67 cents per 100 pounds, and to illustrate the very drastic dras-tic reduction represented by tho rate of 23.4 cents per 100 pounels which will be established from Provo and Sprlng-vllle Sprlng-vllle to Pittsburg and other points in California, eomparlsn is made with ratos from Salt Lake to points north south, oast anil west, Tho present ,rate to Parley, Utah, a point 122 miles south of Salt Lake, is M u cents per 1U0 pounds, to Mill Fork, Utah, a point 7 6 miles south of Salt Lake, the rato Is 25 cents per 100 pounds; to Wondover, Utah, 121 miles west of Salt Lake, tho present rate is 17 cents per 100 pounds; to McCarnmon, Idaho. 14& miles north of Salt Lake, the rate Is 26 cents per 100 pounds, to Antelope. (Utah, a point 149 miles cast of Salt Laluv the rate in 24 Vi cents per 100 pounds In other words, for an average aver-age of 123 miles In all directions from Salt Lake there is an average rato at this time of 25.1 centa per 100 pounds. |