The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-05
SALT LAKE GETS
BETTER RATES
Commercial Club Wins Long Fight
For Freight Reductions.
CHANGES MADE
MANY LINES OF BUSINESS ARE
AFFECTED.

~ deavor 10 secure reductions IN
freight rates that would do away
with Determinations against Salt Lake
and in favor of POcatello. Butte and
Boise and other points. the Com
mercial club has obtained from the
l Oregon Short Line a new tariff sheet
that reduces the rates from 10 10 80 per
cent on many articles.
Many lines OF business are affected
Five commodities in hardware are
given more favorable rates. A car
/ load rate on aN handles is put i'm
something never before in existence.
/ load rate on AK handles is put in.
canned goods Hitherto carload rates
were applied only to cars of the same
kind of canned goods Now the rate
IS given for cars made up or several
varieties of canned goods. There is a
radical reduction on various classes or
drugs and changes IN other lines OF
I merchandise.
Fight of Long Duration.
The fight fer lower rates and against
/ palpable Determinations that made il
/. cheaper in some instances to ship
freight from the Atlantic sea board II,
/ California common points and back 20
/ Salt Lake than to ship from The
( Atlantic seaboard to salt Lake direct.
and that enabled PoCatelIo. Butte and
Boise business houses TO get various
/ kinds of goods and wares laid down
D as Cheaply in those cities for a longer
/ haul as they were laid down I'm salt
/ Lake. has been a long one. II WAS be-
/ gun soon after the organizatio Of the
Commercial club. when its committee
/ on railways and transportation was
/ first appointed Notwithstanding the
yearly changes in the membership OF
/ tbs committee, IL has never ceased to
urge upon the managers and general
/ freight agents of the railroads having
\ lines running into and out of salt
Lake that the city be put on fair
/ basis as compared with other cities
| The members Of the committee have
/ never failed to point out to the rail-
| road men that IL was rank diScrimina-
| ton against salt Lake 70 give a city
several hundred miles farther west or
/ north as low or lower rates from
Missouri river and Atlantic seaboard
| points and the fight was taken up and
/ Won for them by Traffic Manager n
NJ Schumacher Of the Oregon Short
Line and Assistant General Freight
agent s V Derrah OF the Rio Grande
| The other roads viii be governed bv
the new rate sheet to Utah common
| Short Line
Schedule of New Rates.
The new rates become erectfvs
1 March 1S- They are as follows:
Item No. ADDE'S. picks and M ..c,,I a
. FfANtt WITHOUT handles boxed. aVng
! or without handles boxed and 49, vii,
handles handles exposed and blarieS
DONed or Grated; hammers and hatchets
| N DoNes or barrels; straight or mixed
| carloads. minimum weight so 900 pounds
! Tate ron Chicago S1.75 per hundred
! pounds mississippi river S1.65. ST Paul
Sl,l5. Peoria $40 Missouri river $50.
| Item No Agricultural Implements:
/ (hand)- Forks, barley. Cvooden) forks
! hay, manure. or spading: hoes. rakes
wooden or from potato forks stvfhas
and snaths. shovels. scoops and E1ades
rlrasa.4
weight $4,000 pounds. Rates from CThicag-o
Sl-l5 per hundred pounds. Mississippi river
Si.e9. 81. Paul $l-19 Peoria $40, Missouri
Item No Butts and hinges: Except
! Minimum weight s6 000 no'In5s 80
| from Chicago $40 per hundred pounds
Mississippi river s1.35- St Paul sI4o. Pc
orla Sl.3tz, Missouri river Sl-0S
/ Item No Canned goods; Cancel item
No = on canned beans. item . on canned
| on canned peas, straight carloads as
shown in trans-AIissOuri traffic No 20-C
and substitute therefor the following.
Canned GoOds-FIsb fruits meats tin-
/ Guiding potted or deviled) vegets bles.
I soups breads. buildings and sar<iines in
| Theoretically sealed cans boxes. ID p
weather Minimum weight $1,000 pounds
Rate from Chicago Sl.2O per hundred
pounds. from Mississippi river sII5 st
Paul, $40. Peoria, S-111a. Missouri river
Item No 5--CrOCkery. CueensWare and
earthenware. including jardinieres and
1 vases earthenWare, glazed or pointed not
1 glazed
pottery ornaments TOT fish globes and
! aquariumS. and triDOli filter blocks iI-
Guiding flower pots ungiazed and ur-
painted. IN barrels boxes or kegs i'm
stave baskets with tight wooden covers:
IN barrels with cloth tops; i'm crdinarT
crockerN crates or casks IN circular. slat-
! ted crates: bound with wire hoops.
straight or mixed carloads. minimum
weight $1,000 pounds Rate from Chicago
Sl30 per hundred Mississippi river So
s. Paul $50. Peoria Sl-2735. Missouri river
Item No 6.-Fruits. dried. dessicated or
evaporated, Cancel present item No. Il
in trans-Aiissouri tariff No: DC, and sub
I Stitute therefor the following.
Fruits: dried dessicated or evaDOrated
including apples, apple chops. berries.
figs. raisins. citron. lernan ard orange
peel. in boxes, barrels or sacks released.
per hundred pounds from Chicago. Mis-
sissippi river S1-30. St Paul SIS Peoria
BY Missouri river S1-0S.
I chemicals medicine oils. witch hazel
medicinal and flavoring extracts and dye
mum weight $1,000 pounds Rate from
Chicago $50 per hundred pounds.
/ Note-Does not include nitric. rsaurfatle
and sulphuric acids, phosphorous, opium
| nor toilet articles except tooth washes
and tooth and face powders. Mississippi
! river s1-70 St. Paul $50. Peoria 81 50.
Missouri river S1-1e-
Item No S-LocICs and knobs: Locks
in packages. knobs for furniture and
| locks. Minimum weight 10000 pounds.
Rate from Chicago -Sl.75 per hundred
| Sl-75 Peoria $40. Missouri river Il 80
Item No. 9.-NTachinery mining and
sugar. making as specified in items 90
| and $40. trans-Missouri tariff No &c
/ Rate from Chicago s105 per hundred
! pounds. Mississippi river 974zc, St Paul
| $1.05 Peoria S1-Olh. Missouri river 73c
| Item No 10.-Stamped ware (aEate,
| granite or enamel ware) in boxes. bar
| rels or crates. minimum weight 24000
| pounds. The following articles may be
| taken in mixed carloads with stamped
ware viz Cans. milk shipping. coal hods
OF scuttles. nested o. r. B. and INJURY.
! copper wash boilers. copper range tea
, ! kettles Cplain or nickel plated galvanized
! children's bath tubs, galvanized foot tubs
! galvanized garbage and aSlr-bsrrels. gal
| Nanized iron buckets and tubs galvanized
iron wash boilers. galvanized iron wash
! bowls and pans, galvanized cans iron Ia
! dies. skinmers and cake turner's Japan
ned lacquerei tin ware, including jap
| AIMED tin water coolers oilers not in
| Guiding brass or glass oil CUPS boxed.
! pierced. square and round parS. nesfed,
+ | stamped iron dripping. pans nested.
! stamped Russia iron mining pans. III
| broom locks. timed bucket ears timed
| iron handles timers stamped trimmings.
tin scoops nested- tubed cake pans nest
ed. zinc or tn can screfs
; Note-Stamped ware as above specified