The San Francisco call., 1895-10-13
RATES TO UTAH REDUCED,
The Southern Pacific Is Forced
Into a New Compe-
titiOn.
Benefit of a Fight by West
ern Roads.

The Southern Pacific Company issued an
amended tariff yesterday on freight from
common California points to common
Utah points in connection with the Utah
Central Railway, the Rio Grande Western
and the Union Pacific system. This new
tariff suspended amendments Nos 10, 20,
"a, 25, 80 and 81 of the same schedules and
was made to apply between stations on
Southern Pacific Company's line and sta
tions named in Utah on Union Pacific
system, Rio Grande Western Railway and
Utah Central Railway"
While all the commodities included in
the tariff have been affected by the new
order quite a large number of changes in
rates on shipments to Utah have been
made. These reductions were forced upon
the Southern Pacific by the decentralization
of rate compacts among Western railroads
resulting from grand free-for-all scramble
for Utah business. The consequence was
that Californian shippers were seriously
injured, for the coveted trade of Utah
began to slip away from them, and as
freight on shipments over the Slerras from
California decreas ed the railway company
lost heavily. Me rchants and manufac-
turers have been clamoring for relief and
the Traffic Association took the subject
under consideration with view to making
a fight before the Utah railroads at con-
ference of their officials to be held in Salt
Lake City late this month.
1t was known that the Southern Pacific
COMPANY had the question in hand, and
shippers have been anxiously looking for
ward to whatever relief measure the rail-
road might adopt. The railroad did en-
deavor to fix rates into Utah, but failed
because the lines east of Ogden, the ter
minus of the Central Pacific, refused to
make a Joint rate. Failing in that, lower
rates were made to Ogden, but these offered
no relief and failed wholly IN protecting
Californian shipping business to Salt Lake
and other points in Utah. Inns new tariff,
however. has been applied to Utah COM
mon points as we'll as to the Ogden ter
minus.
Assistant General Freight Agent Sproule
stated Yesterday that the cuts in Utah
rates were made for the purpose of placing
Californian products in tan at rates equal
to those from Western shipping centers.
1--WE have made the cut to meet the dis
turbed condition in Utah business" said
he. "The Eastern roads into Utah having
been cutting and fighting for freight busi-
ness to that State to the detrlment of Cali
fornia. And the Southern Pacific has
done this to help Californian shippers-to
give them chance to send freight into
Utah."
The commodities affected by the new
tariff are betting, rubber goods, cartridges,
demijohns, hosepipe, powder, shot, spices.
glass, mineral water, and also sugar in car
load lots from the Chino sugar factory.
The rate on rubber betting from Chicago
to Salt Lake has been 81 20, and from San
Francisco to Salt Lake w Ia. For this
reason the local rubber factory was shut
out OF competition, but now the rate is 81
from San Francisco to Utah, This is
merely one instance to show the import
ance of the competition into which the
Southern Pacific has been forced.