Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-26
BY TEAMS OR
BY RAILROADS.
Utah and Pacific Freight Rates are
Met by Teamsters.
BATHING IN THE LAKE.
Around the world In thirty Days
Is,nr.ion TO rintc on sunday
4 Heavy Train.

Freight is moving In considerable
quantities over the Utah a Pacific. and
the tcamstora have made new rates In
orief 10 meet the competition Of the new
rinruad. II Ia thought by some that
tho road viii soon sin further reduce
H. frsisht rates on nrsticlaSs freight
and that competition BY team freight
inr viii then be- out q the question.
FROM Milford 90 De la Mar by team
frclrhi was formerly $50 per hundred.
when the railroad went from Milford
b. I.und. the team freishts were re-
ducod Ia ti.2s pct hundred.
AZ pnaont the railroad frclHhta from
Milford 10 McCune, nearly half tho
distance to De Ia Mar. win be for orcs
only u cents per 100 pounds IN carload
tots. and nm average ~ - cents per
hundred on merchandise and supplies
IN mixed and carload lots
The movement u freight on the Utah
a Pacific II already considerable. and
probably adjust itself before long.
some ffelFhiern will prefer 10 continue
10 ID business at reduced rates rather
than 10 uut altogether. And this II
what they arc doing. They now offer
~ haul from Milford TO De La Mar
Tor u.is, or from lie la Mar 60 Modrna
Tor 10 cents per hundrci. That II. they
ofer 10 haul for - cents over onc-haif
" the route and for 40 cents over the
other half This shows that the team
ftrfH are making an attempt o. COM
pete with tho railroad. They might
a. well ash dollar for the further
hair and - cents for the half over
witch the railroad extends" said q rep.
te-rntativv u the railroad today. 80
far ~ this proposition II concerned. u
would be n comparatively easy matter
Tor the railroad company 10 put on
teams between he La Mar and Mccune,
o. haul for say % cents per hundred"
This would make the total 10 Milford
about 800 per hundred and would b.
n rate which the teamatern could not
meet A good deal of freight " NOV
ms over the railroad now between Mo.
dcna and Milford. Through billing
over the Short Line TO this city and
other points. with n corresponding fur
ther reduction In freight rates from
the Nevada mining rcaionH
The Short lane people ndlcnlc the
fugTcrtion In this mornings Tfibun.
that their road should grant different
rates to Salt Lake. Woods Cross, and
ogden. from Milford. In order 20 help
out tho Utah A Pacific.
Ogden has 10 be- established on the
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that Salt Lake II on. The present rais
from ogden or Salt Lake 20 Milford ~
81 cents per hundred. On nut class
freight. This rate appears 10 b. salts
factory % the merchants. and n not
likely ~ he changed.
Tho ryies on tha Utah a Pacific may
b. too fiTh, ~ on the rate of ~ cents
per hundred ffst class freight between
Modena ana Milford some Shipper
md thsy ran send u by team more
theaply than by rali.
There appears 10 h. no good reason
why the Short Lane should allow the
Utah A Pacific one third of the pro-
portion OF tho charges for through
frclThtn," said one railroad man, "for
the short Line would get tho freight at
Milford whether II IN brought 20 that
point by team or train. and the Utah A
Pacific does not cover one-thiri ~ tho
distance from Salt Lake TO Mccunc."