The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-28
OUR FREIGHT RATES.
The Discrimination That is Prac-
ticed Against Us.
HINTS FOR OUR BUSINESS MEN.
A Matter in Which We are All vitality Inter
ested, and il Should be Handled
by the Chamber.

A gentleman who is in a position to
know furnishes US with the following in
rotation to railway determinations: By.
reason OF unjust freight determinations
we are without any railroad advantages
over any OF the towns from Spanish Fork
III Tie south TO Butte City on the north,
locessary to make US joDbing and manu-
jacturing city. The roads entering this
rounlry from the east have an agreed
schedule of rates and those rates are COM
mon to all the towns between the two just
mentioned incloslng Salt Lake city, and
tie Union Pacific system with its dl-
vulging lines discriminates against US
to such an extent that Salt Lake city sells
only ssoout 500, 600 of the S5e, 000, 600 worth
OF merchandise that is annually sold in the
territory that should be controlled by Salt
Lake city. In other words, the through
local and car rates from jobbing eastern
and common points to any point that is by
geographical and commercial rights tribu-
Jary to Salt Lake city, is less than the ear
rate on the same Article to Salt Lake city
plus the local or car rate to the point men
toned from Salt Lake. In consequence of
this fact the country merchant is justified
IN buying from the eastern loboer, and
iobbing and manufacturing houses in the
various lines. 1t is in the power of the
trunk lines entering our city TO make the
intermediate commodity rates" as low as
the "Pacitie coast terminal commodity
rates;'' in other words we want at least
the same rates as San Francisco gets from
the Atlantic sea-board. 1.-The Trans-Con-
tenantal association" in getting up their
''west- bound tariff sheet has totally ig-
plo hwy
the articles needed on the Pacific coast, but
manufactured in the east, under what they
call terminal commodity rate" and ac
cording 10 this tariff sheet commodity for
the people of the Pacific coast is not a
commodity for the people Of Utah.
These same companies can reduce their
rates on their diverging lines from Salt
Lake city and still grow rich. The last an
nual statement of the Union Pacific shows
an increase over the net earnings of 1888 of
three quarters of million dollars, not
withstanding the Oregon Railway & Navi
CATION showed decreased earnings of over
four hundred thousand dollars, which
President Adams attributes to the deficient
crops of Oregon and Washington. This
fact alone shows the surplus to have been
gained by the road from here to the Mis-
souri, river. 1t is the duty of the chamber
of commerce and the real estate exchange
v,
to look into this matter more closely and
get such reductions in rates as will place
us on a basis where we will be in posi-
ton to ask lobbers and manufacturers 10
come here and locate with their business.
Without iobbers, manufacturers and
packers, we need not hope to build up a
city.
The days of inflated booms are past. and
petty lealouSies must be buried. We must
now work on a solid foundation and in
order to do that we must put in a concrete
basis. The raw material, such as wool,
cost the manufacturers more when it is
shipped from here to his factory to be pre-
pared for the consuming market than it
would cost the same manufacturer to buy
it at his door when he located here and if
viii cost less for him to manufacture the
same article here, as living is cheaper than
it is in New England. All the necessaries
of life are shipped there over long lines OF
railroad from the agricultural and meat
producing districts of the middle and
western states. Lands are limited. Cities
are cramped. Rents are high, While here
broad areas lie untenanted, cheap and In
viting, live stock roam our hills and plains
thousands of acres of coal lands are close
at hand, millions of gallons of water, pure
and cold, from the snow-capped mountains
are running to waste and inspiring thei1
purities with the. brineiof Great Salt lake
aEd its volume is not appreciated by the
tourist vino goes there to battle.
Newspaper advertisements work hard
ship upon us in our present condition, as W.
are unprepared to take care of tie thou
sands that want to locate among US and dC
business here, and whom our railroads, by
their high tariffs, exclude. Let us worl
shoulder to shoulder and get the presen
rates reduced. that we may offer induce
ments to manufacturers, packers and job
bers to locate their businesses here, a.
these men have countless numbers of EN-
ployees who will want land that we can sci
them; houses built that will give employ
melt to carpenters, brick-layers, ston,
masons and plasterers. They viii wan
provisions TO eat, clothes to wear, increas
ing the demand for all kinds of merchau
disc, which calls for more stores that EN-
ploy more men.
In order to show you what is possible II
be done, the wool rate from Salt Lake cit,
to Boston opened with The present woo
season at LIB per cwt., it has been reduces
to S2.06, and the lines to the Missouri rive
get Sl.35 of this amount-a distance il
round numbers of LOCO miles, and from til
Missouri river TO Boston-a distance i,
round numbers Of 1,500 miles, it has hauled
for II cents.
In making this reduction the lines east O
the river were compelled TO reduce the pro
portion accruing to them to Il cents, as tn,
lines between here and there would max
no cut, Notwithstanding their lines can b
operated at cost not to exceed 20 pc
cent. more than the lines east O
the river. Taking it upon the pres
ent basis of Il cents for 1900 miles
for 900 miles the rate would be AZ; add q
per cent. for excess of cost in operating, w
have SO cents instead of 81 80, and GU
charge of 76 cents per 100, or through rat
of Sl.47.
The Pacific coast people get rate O
$3.50 per 1G0 on their wool to Boston, Allow
ing the roads cast OF the Missouri river tn
same rate they get on Utah wool, Il cents
we have 20 cents accruing to the lines froI
the Pacific coast to the Missouri river.
This viii serve as an example OF one @
the many unjust Determinations agains
Salt Lake city, and as such / commend j
the thoughtful consideration of our mer
chants. j. w. WHITEHEAD, JR
"Why, now I cannot get enough to eat
says one lady who formerly had no appetite
but took Hoods Sarsaparilla. %