The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25
THE RAILROADS.
Racket Of the Roads, Foreign and
Local.
Personals and Points Along the
Hines.


to bo tie "cut rates." the Interest
not decreasing, as many would SUP
pose, but, If anything, growing
more alarming. This. probably, is
owing to the fact that large con-
signments of freight have been or
dered and some fear exists that they
may not be received by the "cut-
ting"lines before the cheap rates are
countermande1. Not only does
this anxiety exist in Salt Lake, but
in many of the country towns
whence kilograms are often. re-
ceived anxiously inquiring if there
is any change or prospect OF q
change in the situation.
The Union Pacific and Denver
s. Rio Grande watch each other
with much anxiety, for fear they
will make other "cuts," or intooduce
some scheme by which one will
gain an advantage over the other.
However, the soliciting agents are
alive to the situation and never for
Iget to promise that whatever they
lOffer you, our company will meet
aud you need not go back on us on
that account"
A rumor prevailed in Ogden on
Friday that the rate between
the Missouri River and Salt Lake
had been cut to % cents per hun
dred. but as nothing definite was
heard here, it may prove only a
rumOr. Yet it is well known that
some classes Of freight in car load
lots are being brought through at a
lower rate than so cents.
In connection with the large ship
ments coming in, we notice that the
| Standard Oil Co. have received
twenty car loads of coal oil, D. M.
| Osborne & Co, thirty>five cars of
machinery and agricultural imple-
merits, Jennings 81 Sons sugar,
Godbe, Pitts & Co. drugs, Bailey
& Son woodenWdTe, while furniture,
stoves, nails and other staple ar
ticles have been coming in large
quantities.
On Friday last Mr.. G. + Brooks
received car load of canned salmon
| HULL 6AGiSl fiG lAC AtOl
| Pacific, which was one month in
tren sit, while the usual time re :
quired via the Central Pacific is
nine days. AS this was the first
car over the new route an improve
ment may be expected,
At recent meeting of the New
York Chamber of Commerce the
subject of railway transportation
was made the principal feature, and
resolutions vigorously condemning
the discriminating practice were
adopted. Among other tables pre-
sented to show the extent of the
practice, was the following in con>
nection with the Union Pacific, and
which was in effect prior to the re-
cent cut: Rates per 100 lbs. from
New York to San Francisco, 1925;
Salt Lake, S4.95; Ogden, $4.65: Dill
Ion, MT, S3.45. San Francisco is
800 and Dillon 400 miles beyond Og~
den.
A prominent Denver g. Rio
Grande official said on Friday, that
there would be no advance over the
present rates until the Union Pacific
agreed to allow his road fifty per
cent. OF tn. Utah business.
The action taken by Superintend-
ent Bancroft. of the Denver 81 Rio
Grande, to suppress the annoyance
to passengers at the company's de-
pot in this city from hotel runners,
hack. drivers, express-men and
others, is timely and cOmmendable
as the conduct Of some of these men
is beyond endurance. It is often
the case that upon recognizing a
lady as she alights from the train.
they impose upon her and calling
her by name each makes des pcrate
effort to obtain her patronage, very
much to her embarrassment and
dislike as in all probability she has
not the slightest reason for knowing
them. This same trouble was abated
at the Utah Central depot some
time ago, but seems to be breaking
out again.
Mr.. S. w. Eccles, general-agent of
the D. q r. G.. freight department,
returned from Denver last Thurs
day where he has been on private
and official business.
Superintendent Sharp, of the Utah
Central,visited the lime rock quarry
at Hot Springs, on Friday, in the
interest of a greater supply of rock
as the smelters have been running
very short and are often threatened
with closing down.
RumOr has it that after building
the passenger depot. the Utah
Central Company will put up
freight warehouses on the corner,
one block south OF the ticket Office
and move all merchandise traffic
there, which will he a great ad-
vantage to both the company and
public as it will bring them two
blocks near the centre of the city
and avoid crossing so many tracks
which is not only dangerous to life
but damaging to merchandise and
wagons.
Mr.. Francis Cope, General Freight
and Ticket Agent OF the Utah Central,
is busily engaged preparing folder f.
that road, which will not only give
correct map OF the Utah Central, but
of the Territory, and will contain
statistical, descriptive and other use.
fol information for travellers and the
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