The San Francisco call., 1896-05-03

vice, but are forced by excessive competl-
tiOn of other carriers"
This tariff only recently attracted the
attention OF the Eastern competing roads.
They soon found that it gave San Fran
cisco greater advantage for Utah bus-
ness. In consequence the Eastern lines
sought means to counteract the effect of
the tariff, and the method they adopted
was to cancel the distributing rates that
heretofore prevailed from Ogden; that is,
they make merchants pay the full local
tariff rates on everything distributed.
Another move that they have made is TO
exact the full local rate between Ogden
and Salt Lake for freight south of Lehi
Junction. All freight for this extensive
mining section previously carried the same
rate from either Ogden or Salt Lake, and
all freight from Ogden must necessarily
pass through Salt Lake.
This makes a considerable difference to
the jobbers at Ogden, who are handi-
capped as against the Salt Lake jobbers
for this business to the extent of the rates
between ogden and Salt Lake, which are
as follows per 100 pounds: First class. 80
cents; second class, 25 cents; third class,
20 cents; fourth class, 1511 cents; fifth
class and class A, Is cents; class B, 1917
cents; class G, IL cents; classes d and +.
cents As most of the freight for the
region mentioned is fourth and fifth class
this means difference OF at least So ton
to the purchaser.
The result of this action on the part of
the roads east of Ogden has been to arouse
general and intense Indignation among
the merchants of Ogden, who claim that
they are being Disseminated against in
favor of Salt Sake. That the sentiment is
strong is shown by the following excerpt
from a circular letter of John Crowe-
croft d Sons Company, one OF the largest
Ogden mercantile firms, sent to all their
customers in Utah:
The Union Pacific and Rio: Grande Western
railroads have issued a tariff by which Ogden
| jobbers, when selling goods south of Salt Lake
City, compelled to pay freight charges
| from Ogden to Salt Lake, thus giving Salt Lake
| jobbers an advantage over ogden JobberS OF
| from 1511 to 80 cents per hundred, but when
| Salt Lake jobbers sell goods north of Ogden
they have no freight to pay between Salt Lake
and ogden, thus placing them exactly on the
same base as the Ogden jobbers in the north.
How's that for fair play? Giving the other fell
| low the biggest club and the best place in the
| ring every time. Of course there are some
residents in certain city who think there is
| nothing in Utah outside of that city but ''cow
counties" the inhabitants of which should
not expect any privileges commercially or even
politically, except paying taxes; that their
However, the object OF this circular is to.
notify our customers to send US orders from
our lists as usual, figure with our travelling
men, and when your goods arrive send us your
expense bills and we will refund to you every
cent that your freight would have cost you
more from Ogden than it would have done
from Salt Lake.
This feeling has also manifested itself
through the newspapers of the new State.
One of these, the Ogden Standard, in it's
editorial columns stated that the farmers
and merchants in the territory thus dis
eliminated against were ready to grade the
thirty-sfx miles between Ogden and Salt
Lake if the Southern Pacific Company
would undertake to build the road, accept
ing stock In the road as payment.