The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-21
Time for Loading and Unload
ing Cars of Ore at Mills ard
Shelters Cut in Two.
MILL MEN ARE PESSIMISTIC
RAILROAD VIEW OF THE RE-
SUITS is DIFFERENT.

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vice association. 1t relates to the time
allowed for loading and unloading cars
at samplers and smelters and makes
the free time limit two instead of four
days as at present. The sampler men
were emphatic in the declaration that
1t would absolutely destroy the compe-
tltlVe market that the ore producer now
enjoys, by making it impossible for
Inem TO do other than ship their ores
direct TO some smelter under contract
and let it go at that. c. II. Griffin
commissioner for the Utah Car Service
ASSOCIATION, says it will do nothing of
the Kind; that there is nothing in the
rule TO get excited over and that the
proposition will work out all right. The
wording of the circular, which is signed
by Mr.. Griffin as commissioner. is as
follows:
Terms of New Rule.
Owing to the last amendment to the
interstate commerce law. which be-
comes effective Aug. %. the opera ting
ofhcials of the lines members of the
Utah Car Service association have.
upon advice from their legal depart
ments. directed me to advise you that
on and after Aug %, 1905. the present
practice of allowing YOU four ca DAYS
or ninety-siX (96) hours free time on
COAL coke, ore and concentrates would
be discontinued, and that but two 90
days, or forty-eight t4S) hours free
time would be allowed, as provided in
the rules and regulations Of the Utah
Car Service association on file with the
interstate commerce commission as T.
I. {. No. l, and supplements /. and
3, copies Of which have been furnished
you, and can be haG upon application
TO the undersigned or any company
member Of the above named associa-
ton
Please understand that in connec-
ton with the above no car VIII be al
lowed more than one period of free
time for loading and one period Of free
time for unloading under one trans
DortatiOn charge"
The arrangements Of the sampling
mills state that the present rule. which
allows four days free tim after the
receipt CT a car of ore at the works i'm
which to sample, assay. sell and divert
IT TO the smelling company buying it.
is the best hat can be Gene. on an
average. 1t is not always possible to
sample a car of ore or a number of
cars the day it or they are received.
owing TO the position of possibly dozens
OF other cars that have accumulated
After sample is made the asSayerS
have frequently to make analyses Of
the pulp in addition to the ordinary de-
examinations of the amount Of metals
I'm the ore. Then it takes a day to get
bids from the different smelters, and if
the whole business is done with the ut
most dispatch il is about all the mills
can do to divert the ore before demur-
rage begins.
Sampler Managers Opinions.
1T looks to ne" said Manager c. D.
RoOklidge of the Pioneer works, "as
though the public samplers would have
to so out of business if the new rule is
either that or the producers
will have TO stand the demurrage costs.
II appeals to me as being i'm the nature
Of direct blow at the mining industry.
and l look to see the producers up in
arms over II soon. The matter will I'M
doubte1 lily be referred 70 the CONNER
cial clubs committee on mines and
mining, and that the railroads will hear
from If there is no doubt"
David w. Brunton, of the Taylor &
Brunton works, was also pronounced in |
MS opposition to the new rule and he
declared that il would mean a serious
blow to the industry of mining in this |
'egioD. which is just now leaping to !
he front with such bewildering speed. !
He believed that. if the rule was not |
modified, ii would eventually result in |
lie utter destruction Of Salt Lake as |
l competitive ore selling and smelling |
,enter, and that mills and smelters |
would become scattered all through the |
vest. 1t would affect many lines Of |
business here and retard the growth of |
he city.
The Railroad View of 1t.
Commissioner G. II. Griffin declined
o take any such gloomy view of the 1
of the rule. He declared |
hat the manner in which the sampIing |
nen and smeltermen took ADVANTAGE of |
he rule as it applies at the present |
ime has been Scandalous and that no
,arm will accrue to the producers. the
amplers or the smelters. either. for
hat matter.
I'm the first place" said he. "the de-
charge which, under the four
lay rule, is 80 a day for each car not
eleased on time. Under the new rule
he charge is reduced to 81 a day on
'ach car held over the limit of two
lays / have figures in plenty to show
hat the sampling mills do not ray
cry much for demurrage and then
My when breakages or something
appens at the mills to throw them
behind with their work Recently, on
.ccount of the mills receiving more
BUSINESS IMAM tney nave mad the facili-
les to handle, they have been caught
or more than ordinary amounts of de-
but that, I believe, can be
asily escaped b. increasing their yard,
lin and mill facilities.
Abuse of Rule.
There has been a scandalous abuse
f the four-day rule. Sometimes. TO IL
ustrate. a car of ore is sampled at
'onopah or Goldfield and the car is
eld> four days there: then il is de-
ided TO resample it at Reno. maybe.
rhere another four days is taken. Then
he car comes TO Salt Lake and it is
rdered resampled here and another
our days is consumed. After that if IS
eleased to one of the smelters and. If
heir yards are congested or there is