Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-25
RATE CONFERENCE
THIS FTERNOON
Tintic Mine Owners and Rail-
roads Are Trying to Get
Together.
SOME AGREEMENT EXPECTED.
Operators Want Rates Figured Upon
Net Valuation of ore Instead
OF Gross Worth.

Indications point to a final settlement
al the differences of opinions Of Unite
mine owners and railroads on the rates
applied to ore shipments from that as
trlct. conference Will open at
O'Clock This afternoon at the CONNER
cial club Representatives of the salt
Lake Route and Rio Grande will meet
with the transportation committee of
the Tmtic Mine owners association
Senator w A. Clark president of the
salt Lake Route, Is IN this city at
the present time and will probably at
tend this meeting. Senator Clark's long
suit Is mining and as this conference
deals directly with mining he VIII
doubtless want to hear the mine own
crs argument ana application for n
different rate, first hand f. a, Waun,
general traffic manager aud j. III Burn
ner. district freight and passenger
agent Of the salt Lake Route will repre-
sent that road and S. Y. Dcrrah, as
siStant general freight agent Of the RIO
Grand may represent that road.
NET" VS. GROSS" VALUES.
Conditions never seem more favorable
to an adjustment OF this matter and the
mine owners feel confident that the
railroads are trying ia do the right
thing The point Involved Is this; the
railroads are now charging for hauling
ore upon the gross valuation Of the ore
that Is the value OF the ore as u comes
from the mine ana the mine owners
are asking that the rates be based
upon the net valuation of the ores
that Is the returns received from the
ore after smelling charges have been
deducted. Meeting after meeting and
conference after conference have been
held between representatives Of the
,ufIr nf,VyfvtaTttgpa Mine
Owners association, but these have
brought no results, both sides remain
ing as far apart at the end as thcE
were In the beginning. So earnestly
aud constantly have the mine owners
kept the matter before the railroads
that the latter are beginning TO do
some serious thinking. Tho met valua-
ton idea is gaining In favor and even
though a sweeping reduction is not
made within the nenr future, changes
ave anticipated which will mark the
commencement of big changes in pres
ent methods of figuring ore rates.
ORES DIFFER WIDELY.
The rates now In force are sl.25 per
ton for ore wogth SIS and under; S2.25
per ton for ore worth over Sl5 and up
10 s25 and $3.50 per ton for ore worth
more than s25 per ton. The value OF
the ore Is determined AZ the mine. The
mine owners have been saying for years
that this method OF rating Is unjust.
There rs often a bip difference nj The
value OF ore at the mine ana I'm the
smelter." they explain, IAN ore that
VIII contain $40 worth of mineral as
less than haIr as much nj tho sneltes
because of Tho urcsence Of poculinr min
erals and substances which must be
extracted to hermit the other minerals
being obtained This extrn treatment
ADDS Ia the rost nf trest,ncnt ana ~
course Tho net returns arc cut down ac-
ccrdinrIv ores are Of an Kinds and
some are exceedingly pcCullar in their
composltion. some 500 r,in a. mine ore
viii net $50 M The smelter but more
often there IL a wide Inference ms ~
planned This system Of dylue rates ON
values al Inc mine is l,niust in "a Ii,un-
bcr az yyays: fnl' onc Thing m make tbo
nnn vino is getting Sl0 ouf Of his 500
stuff nay the same rate ms tho man who
rs getting 500 As Ioup as ratos ara
ia be figured upon the value Of Tho orc
il should M least he 6Eurod upon Dct
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