The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-07-23
Facilities Needed in West.
Tariffs From Salt Lake.

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Tariffs From Salt Lake.
"At the instigation of Interested men
| of means in sympathy with the work
| of the committee, a study OF tarlllS
showing rates on live stock from terri
tory which will provide supplies OF
| cattle, sheep hogs and lambs. largely
! in excess Of any estimates of the mar
ket's needs made by the most enthusl-
astic of it's supporters has been COM
pleted. This scrutiny of the rates IN
question discloses the fact that with
few exceptions the rates into Salt Lake
from the feeding districts of the state
are lower by from ten to twenty DOL
lars per car than those prevailing III
the territory tributary to Denver, ana
from which that market draws It's
supplies.
The bulk of the supplies required here
for some years will be drawn from a
region about Salt Lake on an average
rate of $35 per car, as against 500
average for the Denver market, and one
of $40 for those on the Missouri river.
This is due to the fact that our best
feeding districts, including Utah, San
pete and Sewer valleys on the south,
and Salt Lake, Davis and Weber coun-
ties, Bear river and Cache on the
north, are nearer to Salt Lake than
similar districts of Colorado, with one
or two exceptions, are to Denver.
Our Tooele county feeders can mar
ket their fat stuff on $25 rate in Salt
Lake without concessions from the
present charges: and clear on to
the southern limits of the state ship
pers can reach the home market under
existing tariffs at figures of cost rang
ing from $35 at Oasis, and $40 at Mil
ford, to $75 at Nevada, the state line.
Factory feeders at Lehi get a s14
rate, and the Utah valley ones a $40
one. while the Nephi and Rush valley
producers pay from $32 to $35. AS
against these charges to Salt Lake, the
rates TO the Missouri river markets
range from $3.50 to 1855, and from 800
10 $120. approximately, to Denver.
The rates to Salt Lake from Denver |
& Rio Grande points in Sanpete county !
are $32 per car; from Salina, $780, from I
Richfeld and Elsinore, s42 and s4S, re- /
'pectively, and from Marysvale, s45. /
Thistle Junction and Heber take $50
ate, and the latter is the center of d /
big feeding district.
"On the north the Short Line max
mum rate from Bear River valley
points is $24; from Cache valley and
stations to the Idaho line, $2S, and east
m the Short Line as far as Granger,
AZ Shippers from Rexburg and St An
hony can market at Salt Lake for s65
nd 500 per car, and from any point
outh of Butte at a maximum of S72.
he rate from Idaho Falls is S45. from
american Falls and the Snake river
eeding district, s46; from Shoshone, Il
"a; HALEY branch points, $40 and s72, II
nd the highest of Boise valley points.
30.
THE river rates from all these ship
ing places is double the maximum
ate named to Salt Lake approximate
7, and those to Denver are but $40 to
80 less than river figures.
These figures, in the scope of pro-
ucing country they cover. should re-
love all doubt of securing supplies OF
nlmals on the hoof for the proposed
liant under comparatively favoring
'ansportation rates and the inquiry of
he committee into the question of dis
'lout1ve rates on the products of the
acking plant establishes that the pre-
all1ng class rates to points this market
likely to supply within the first five
ears of its distribution are abundant
protec. - of the local operators. if
concessltls are secured as a result
an increase of business
Comparison of Finished Product