Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-05
A BLOW TO LOCAL JOBBERS.
The Southern Pacific Badly Outgen-
eraltd.
salt Lake. with the Ala Of the East
srs Lines, controls the
Utah NarksL

Under the above caption the San
Francisco Chronicle Of Sunday has this
rather emphatic plaint to make con-
cerning the recent rate troubles heres
The bitter rate war between the
Southern Pacific company on the one
eide and the lines from tho East doing
business In Utah l. approaching n
crisis. The freight department OF the
Southern Pacific company wasadvistd
yesterday that the UnioA Pacific and
the Rio Gfands Western roads had
withdrawn what are known a. the
distributing rates out Of Ogden, and
this action on the part Of the Southern
Paoihc's competitors has plscsd the
OGDEN robbers, who have supported
the Southern Pacific I'm the Utah rate
fght, at such an unequal disadvantage
with the Salt LpSe Iobbefs that viz.
otous protests have gone forth from
Ogden during the past lew days.
The trouble between the Southern
Pacific and its eastern connections,
which are ita competitors "a fer ~ Utah
tfaflio IL concerned, dates rom last fall
when the eastern lines reduced their
freight rates into Utah from the East.
The Southern Pacific, claiming that
San francisco was the natural die-
tribuIing point on account OF IT. prox-
Unity 10 Utah, then issuOd tarln In
which II reduced It, rates from Can.
fOrnia 10 Utah common points The
southern pacifio's connections refused
TO participate IN these rates anu the
Southern Pacific was left no alternative
hut TO Withdraw ita tariff. AZ substi-
tuie II made rates to Ogden sufficiently
low, II WAS thought, TO snAbie San
Francisco lobbefs 10 compete with east.
ern lobbefs In Uiah. The Southern
Pacific took the stand that II was o.
titled TO make the same rate per mile
from San Francisco O. Utah ~ existed
from Chicago 10 Utah, aud this ogden
tnfifl was figured on that basis. The
Southern Pacific has sinco been max
Ing such special rates 10 Ogden
AZ the traffic warranted, aud
these rates were recently incor-
poTated In q special tariff pub
llshed two weeks ago. These rates APP
ply only 10 Ogden, the terminus OF TIE
Central Pacific, but were made sum-
clently low TO enable shippers to pay
the additional distributing rate on the
lines OF the Union Pacific aud Rio
Gfande Western and still DO lett n
margin OF profit. Tho Ogden lobbeta
have been supporting tho SOrthefn
Pacific company 10 ila fight with the
lines which want UtAh'a business TO
come from the East, anu for retaliation
the Union Pscifo and the Rio 1rande
Western have now cancelled all dis.
tributing rates out OF Ogden ana given
Balt Lake jobbers practical monopoly
OF tho trads VI Southern Utah.
Az &. II. Smurr. general freight
agent Of the Southern Pacific, 81.
plained yesterday, the iobbers OF OS.
uen and Salt Lake have always eu.
joyed an equal advantage In respect
20 rates IN pursuance Of hn agreement
with both tho Union Pacific and the
Rio Grande Western lines. Dislrib-
uliDR rates TO points north Of Logan
anu south OF Lehi Junction have been
the sans from both Ogden and HAl,
Lake. and tho withdrawal Of thu dis.
lribuiing rates from Ogden according
ly leaves the Ogden iobber Ia an EN-.
batrRssing predioament. In order ~
mpels with the salt Lake Iobbsr In
Southern Utah he has now 10 pay the
local rate from Ogden 10 SAT- Lake
In addition 10 the Distributing rate
from SILT Lake. TuesB local
rates are Almost ptohihitory, and, added
TO the rats from San Francisco 10 %.
den, make q through rate from this
city when In many instances equals
the rate from Chicago, Tue local rates
from Ogden 20 salt Lake ~ 100
pounds are ss follow, governed by the
western classintAiiOn: First clEs., 80
cents; second class, % cent?; tL.I
ulast, 20 cents; fourth class, l6i cent?;
nth class, 10 cent?; class A, 10 ceuts,
Glass Il, 1884 cents; clase q. IL cents;
class ID, cenls; CLASS H., s osnts. The
sats on nails, which IL ons o. the prin.
opal commodities shipped from here to
Utah, takes the Nth class rate, or Is
cents per 100 pounds for the shOt' haul
OF thlrty-six miles between Ogden cad
salt Lake, which, added 20 lho rate o.
thirty cents from here 10 Ogden, mBkts
a through rate OF IS cents ~ Salt lake.
1t IL tue came with oil other comm0di.
Ties which California 10 supplying TO
the Ctah trade, and nOt only Tue Ogden
IobbeT, but tue San Francisco iGbbeT,
from whom the former obtains his
goods, IL now forced TO iscH an uu.
pleasant condition Of Affairs, which
he has no means Of regulating.
The Ogden papers are now TAX.
ing the Union Pacific AMI tho
Rio Grande WeBtern liuvs severely to
task for thsiT withdrawal Of oil die.
tributing rates out OF Ogden, snd tie
Ogden iOb0ers are sending out citcu.
lars 10 theit customers Notifying thsm
10 send In their orders NJ usual, ana
offering to refund 10 them every cent
their ireignt costs them more from Og.