The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-21
Cutting Rates.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, February 2O.-The
traffic department of the Northern
Pacific received instructions from New
York regarding Trans-Continental
rates. The Northern Pacific will make
its Portland rate to correspond with the
San Francisco rate daily. Though
nothing has been said regarding the
Ocean line from Portland to San Fran
cisco, it is believed the Northern Pacific
will work for business that way. A cut
OF 30 per cent. has been made in the
freight rate from the east to Portland
and San Francisco. Passenger rates
have also been cut and first-class
limited tickets can now be obtained for
$65 to $50 to San Francisco.
New YORK, February 20.-The
Northern Pacific Railroad has issued
the following table of passenger rates
from st. Paul to Portland: First-class.
unlimited. $75; limited, $65, and
emigrant, $35. There are no new
developments in regard to the Pacific
Mail Company.
CHICAGO, February 20.-In response
to telegram sent from the general
office of the Associated Press in CHI
cago to s. R. Galloway, general mana
ger of the Union Pacific Railway, ask
ing for statement from him respect
ing the disruption of the Trans-Conti-
mental Association, Mr.. Galloway tele
graphs from Boston, this evening, citing
that the pooling arrangement between
California roads expired by limitation
months ago, but there was tacit agree
ment among the roads TO maintain the
rates, pending the time when they could
agree upon basis of re- organization,
Nevertheless all the lines appear to
have cut rates, more or less, and the
Southern Pacific, with its water to New
Orleans, cut the lowest. The Southern
Pacific was allowed % per cent. in the
pool, the Atchison % per cent, the
Union Pacific AZ per cent, and the
naming 10 per cent. At the New York
meeting, Mr.. Galloway says the Atchi-
son demanded 30 per cent. of the South
ern California business and % per cent.
of the remaining Pacific Coast business,
or as Mr.. Galloway asserts, 80 per cent.
of the whole. He also declares there are
three railway systems touchingSouthern
California, Southern Pacific, Atchison
and Union and Central Pacific lines, and
| that objection was made to the Atchi-
son obtaining one-half of this business.
This would have increased its percent
age per cent, representing about $780,
000. Galloway states the other COM
panies were Willing to leave the subject
to arbitration, and even concede some
thing additional to the Atchison road,
but the latter held to its demands and
the meeting adjourned, which was fol-
lowed by the present open rate cutting.
The telegram cites also that the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company owing to its
loss of $4,000 monthly subsidy granted
it by. the transcontinental lines, and
which ended with a disruption, the as
ISOLATION has decided to put on a
weekly line of steamers to California by
way OF the Isthmus of Panama and to
buy one new steamer and construct an
other with view to obtaining its full
share of the overland traffic.
The Mail and Express says: Trans
continental freight has come to a halt
and to-day kilograms were sent from
this city to the west to stop further cuts
pending efforts about to be made to
end the contest. The Atchison, Topeka
& SAINT Fe has been unable to get the
roads out of Chicago to pro rate or cut
freight rates to the Pacific Coast and
thus far the freight war has been
avoided"