The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-21
WOOL RATES
ARE CUT DOWN
Local Roads Announce IS I-2c
Reduction.
OLD RATE WILL STAND
GROWERS WILL NOT HAVE TO
PAY INCREASE.

A CUT Of 1879 cents has been made by
4 the Oregon Short Line and Rio
Grande in the tariff on wool to Bos-
ton. That is practically the situation
as it stands today Whether the rate
viii continue is a matter which the To-
cal officials do not care to discuss. An
official of the Short Line said yester-
day.
Our rate to Boston today is g. just
as it has been for the past ten years.
Whether the rate viii be continued is
something that is impossible 10 say
at this time. We are not responsible
for the rate east of Chicago or ST.
Louis. The rates east of those points
have been advanced but we are quot
ing the same rate as for several years.
This means that we have cut our rate
lS1z cents Another official said yes
terday:
The blame in this matter is thrown
upon the eastern roads but the west
ern roads have been getting the best
of the situation and I fail 20 see why
they should not make a reduction m
the rate. They are today getting S1.35
TO carry a commodity which. In other
lines of goods, is carried for so cents
at a profit. The exact rate 10 Omaha
is Si.32 and a fraction; between the
rivers the rate is 50 cents and a fraC-
ton, and from Chicago 10 the Atlantic
the rate is 80 cents. This is under the
present rate of $2lSia. IS there any
reason why the western roads should
not make a reduction in their rates.
The western roads get S1.32 for the
haul from Utah OF Idaho common
points to Omaha, a distance of about
1000 miles, according 10 the point from
where il is shipped. For q haul of
]. $50 miles the eastern roads. under the
new rating. only get Sc cents. Where
is the equality? The western roads
ought to come down and keep the rate
where il is. They can afford to-. When
/ give 1880 miles as the haul from
Omaha to Boston / give TIE air line
[ haul; that is, the shortest routing. 1T
probably is more than that. But ship
ping from Lima, Mont, or from Mill
ford, Utah, the distance is not 1900
miles TO Omaha. Why then should the
western lines, even ON a mountain
haul, get double what the eastern
roads get on haul which Is much
| greater? BY the air line route the
haul is as follows:
Ogden TO Omaha, 1,O04 miles.
Omaha to Chicago, 1924.
Chicago 10 Buffalo $40.
Buffalo to Albany. 296
Albany to Boston, POP.
This makes a haul of $50 miles
| from Omaha east for SIS cents under
the new tariff. For the haul from Og-
den of GOA or from Milford. Utah. OF
/ 1879. or Lima. Mont. of l.2l1 the west
ern roads get $1.32. To condense the
/ figures il means:
Milford to Omaha.
,2I9 miles, cost Of shipment........S 81
Omaha TO Boston.
/ $50 miles, cost of shipment. .St
These figures are based on the pres
| ent increase made by the eastern roads
An the roads are doing more business
/ today than at any time iu their his
tory. They are hauling more trains
/ carrying more freight and it is a fact
/ that on some hauls they TO not gel
I more than so cents for the same hau
/ that they charge $l.35 for in dealing
with wool freights. one OF the WOO
men makes the statement this morning
that he viii have 20 grin and bear 10
/ 1T the worst comes 10 the worst ht
may have To bear H., but 4 am hanged
| if / would grin"