The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-31
IL Was Simply a Great Big
Fizzle.
NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED.
PROPORTIONS ADVANCED, BUT
NONE OF THEM ACCEPTED.
1t is Now in Order For the Jobbers
Association to Unite on Some
Definite Line of Action-Trafic
Notes.-The Latest BY Wire.

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a three days session in this city, has
adjourned.
They marched up the hill and then
they marched down again. That is the
whole story in a nutshell.
This leaves the CalifOrnia-Utah rate
controversy in precisely the same con-
dition as it was prior to the conference
and the outcome fully verifies the Her
aids predictions set forth in last Mon
days issue. Ut seemed then that there
was no other conclusion to be reached,
and as the hours dragged on down to
the close of the meeting that belief be-
came a certainty. Some of the great
lines were not represented, and it is a
We'll known fact that at all such meet
| ings a perfect unanimity of action must
prevail, else the rock on which the as
ISOLATION is built is then and there in a
fair way to crumble.
The nom concurrence of even one line
may prohibit action by the other lines,
and in this instance it held doubly
good.
Yesterdays session in the forenoon
could not properly be called a session.
The representatives. were not all there.
The absentees did not see any progress
in sight and that is probably why they
| remained away.
The rock on which they split was the
percentage of the Missouri river rate.
Here it may be said that the whole
question is one of the Southern Pacific
against the fed. All the other trans
! Missouri lines present a solid front on
the proposition, as their interests are
one and the same, and they oppose the
adoption of any rate that will initiate
against their own interests. On THE
other hand, the Southern Pacific de-
mandS a rate that they claim is I.ut
! just and equitable to the shipping IN
terests of their territory, and in sub
sanitation of this claim, have ad-
vanced some very elaborate and far
reaching arguments.
AT the outset of the meeting, the
eastern Zines offered the Southern Pa
cific so per cent. of the Missouri river
rate, and held tenaciouSly to this point
all the way through.
On the other hand, the Southern Pa
cific asked that the rates be based on
10 per cent of the haul, and this diff
ference rent in twain all negotiations
then on.
Such rate basis is explained in this
| way. Take for instance a class of
goods on which the rate is 81 per 100
from the east on Missouri river rate,
and the eastern lines would agree for
! an S0-cent rate from San Francisco
| here. The Southern Pacific say they
! are entitled to make the rate 70 cents.
| The eastern lines contend that mas
much as San Francisco has the advan-
| tage of an all-water haul, as well as
rail and water haul. that such odds
must necessarily be taken into account,
and that 50 per cent is all that the all
! rail business from the east will stand.
1t has been generally understood that
! the Southern Pacific came over for
| their pound of flesh, and that they
! brought along their own scales to
weigh it out, and the very fact that
this impression gained strong hold,
may have had something to do with
! the solid phalanx formed by the east
ern lines and our jobbing fraternity as
we'll For some time previous to the
| meeting in this city, the press dis
| patches were ladened with threats of
what the California Traffic association
" ould demand. and Mr. Curtis was
! quoted as the author of these dire
| threats. He was quoted as saying that
! if these concessions were not granted,
then San Francisco merchants would
! go forth upon a boycott rampage, and
| Utah would be ostracised from east
ern commerce longer coming through
| our gateway.
! All these things did not help to in
any way pave the way for a solution
| of matters, as might be expected.
| Mr. Sproule, the Souther Pacific rep
resentative, says that his company is
! DESTROYS of doing all that is possible
| to adjust rates; that they are willing
! to put in a rate to Salt Lake and Utah
| common points that will be satiSfac-
! tory as it was heretofore.
| During the meeting the Southern Pa
| cific made several propositions, none
! 10 limo would n
| tain. One was on the basis of mileage,
the mileage from San Francisco to Salt
| Lake to be credited on certain ratio
as against that from Chicago to Salt
| Lake. The eastern lines would not
agree to this, holding that it was I'M
practicable so long as rates were based
differently on each side of the river.
Then again the offer was made to
| base on mileage from the river here,
which would obviate the necessity of
running I'D against the "double-head-
| er" rate prevailing in the way of the
two local rates from Chicago here.
I That proposition was also turned down.
| The Southern Pacific contends that
! their main competition does not orig
/ mate at the river, but comes from
I Chicago and points east, also from New
Orleans. which gateway gives the adj
! vantage of a rail and water haul
from the south. After all the points
were introduced on both sides, they
We're no nearer an agreemnt than at
the start, and an adjournment was
! in order.
The meeting adjourned to convene
again in Kansas City November 18th,
| this meeting to be of the regular
Trans Missouri association, when the
matters discussed here will again be
brought up.
All the eastern representatives, ex-
cept Mr.. Sproule, of the Southern Pa
! cific left for home last evening, and
/ he remains over here a. day or two
I longer to see if there is any remedy
! that can be applied in the interests
! Of the Utah jobbers.
Last evening he submitted matters
as fully as possible by wire to his peo-
| pie and today will learn what relief
at this stage, if any, is in store, when
| he will confer with the Jobbers asso-
| citation.
The Utah jobbers are feeling glum
over the outcome, as we'll they may,
/ but it may develop before long that
/ they will unite on line of action that
will have some of the roads tumbling
| over one another in an effort to pro-
I tect the business slipping from them.
| They will not remain wholly inactive,
as developments will soon prove.
THE "A. AND P. CASE.
1t Involves over Sixteen Millions Of
Dollars.