Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-16
COMMERCIAL CLUB RousED
ri,her Harris Makes Some Prom
he's Regarding Energetic Cam
uaion to Better Conditions.
..,aent of NJ, & NJ. Association,
senator Lawrence, and Others in
Favor of Unremitting Agitation.

Il ~s., salt Lake in 1908 Is going to be
aycicuous for constant and unremit-
z ,,,rr public agitation for better freight
.ra better fuel conditions. is the prom
!, made today by the heads of three
A ,-,minent organizations, and by pub
y. citizens potential as law making
factors.
eyou cannot put 1t too strong in the
,,se Of the Commercial club" declared
rysser Harris this morning. "Utah's
osportunlties to encourage and build up
,ndustries cannot longer be jeopardized
nv the discriminating freight rates, and
me high price of fuel. Cheap manufac-
turing slack, and rates that give US a
chance with San Francisco and Dem
YER are public necessities too large to be
overlooked"
orson II. Hewlett. president of the
manufacturers & Merchants associa-
Inn had this as his declaration of In
Int: For three years there has been
Gathering of sentiment and data. In
irving TO build up our manufacturing
Industries we have at least found out
vhy they cannot succeed. To compete
n Salt Lake with coal at $3.50 is mani
testify impossible while Denver uses
coal at sl,40 for similar plants.
Nov I do not blame the railroads.
Utah In pioneer days, when the amount
OF freight was small, could not ask for
tie rates that she is entitled to today,
as the chief city OF the mountains. If
we merchants have been willing to sit
a. 4 IL ..,rt q
only meant that we have been willing
to see Denver, Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Portland fatten on trade
privileges that ought to be ours We
will pay more to get brick from Penn
sylvania TO Salt Lake than they pay
10 take them from Pennsylvania to
Japan. until by an organized. active
sentiment. We are able to make our de-
mands known"
LAwRENcE'S VIEWS.
state Senator George Lawrence holds
rery much the same view. 1.-THE ques-.
ton will never be settled in malice"
he said this morning, but by persistent
publicity to present conditions. applied
reasonably and at the proper times and
places II isn't a fight on the railroads
that Is needed, but only an understand
Ing of the country's needs by all con-
cerned like to see the publicity main
tanned when 1t is well timed"
WHY DENVER UNDERSELLs.
From j. NJ. Marriott. prominent in the
Organization of Butchers and Grocers.
comes definite explanation of the
great secret of why Denver meats and
Denver groceries are measurably cheap
er than In Salt Lake.
Every time the Denver grocer or
butcher" he said. adds 40 cents to the
cost of a bill OF goods from the Missouri
river for freight. Salt Lake must not
add this sum. or twice th,s sum. but
over four times this sum. Every time
The Denver man adds so cents, we must
add $40 or even as high as So. Dem
yer frelghts run to about per cent OF
The price OF the invoices. Salt Lake
r.ights run to IL per cent and 15 per
ont Is ii any wonder then that Dem
yer merchants can sell eheaper?"
An inspection of a number of In
voices In Salt Lake FIRMS headquar-
lefs this morning shows freight rate
90 one invoice of s132.so, while the to-
Ml value of the goods reached s850.6T
u Is believed that the freight TO San
francisco would not have been so high
common point" concessions which
Denver enjoys and not Salt Lake.
DENyER's CHEAPER FUEL.
with the telegraph wire yesterday
ringing word from Denver that per-
manent Injunction had been granted
against the food combine the papers
uon that city today bring news OF tho
successful termination of long fight
against the coal trust The Colorado
fuei Iron company dropped the price
" coal this week from $3.50 to 81. 80 per
clip
Ine Denver newspaper which bought
: NINE 10 tight the trust and sold its
r,oguel Mt 1890 per ton, holds that over
healcuon Of coal and the falling mar
as' was responsible for the decrease,
- wen az the fight of the non-trust
svulee backed by half a dozen inde-
tsnafnl mines. The opinion seems to
,hat the drop has been made TO stay.
u that public opinion will not let
1at commodity again advance without
t Tyso strenuous opposition. In Salt
M aM mere - q prevailing opinion that
wy utah Fuel Will drop another 25
sns on the mine price and that the
tssnt rate VIII drop 30 cents In. a
NV NV weeks. Manager Williams, who
as lusl returned from the mines. re-
snn lhat the company has closed
ntha nv mine that furnished coke for
ml mfr sihellars, and IL working the other
thi,s A only four days week with one
oni,, our expenses. however, are
wnS slightly reduced by this shorter
c ~o,hlns period he explains, "and the
w. 81 mining is fully as high as ever