The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-08

grant to the Ogden Four State Fair
the same rates each road grants to
Salt Lake City for conference and the
G. A. r. excursions this year three
times. The Denver G Rio Grande and
the Western Pacific railroads respond
ed that they gave Salt Lake City a
one-price oneway for the round trip
and that the Four State Fair should
have the same rate. The Oregon Short
Line responded that they gave Salt
Lake City for the conference and G..
a. r excursion a one-pIlce one-way
for the round trip but that ogden
would have to pay one price and a
third. or SO per cent more than the
rates Salt Lake City received. That
is the truth about the matter and the
letter sent out by Mr.. Burley Is
cleverly written for the purpose OF
deceiving the Ogden people. But
hundreds Of people have called us up
by phone and sent their letters to this
office. saying that they had read the
whole explanation of this matter In
last Sundays Examiner and that they
were with Mr.. Glasmann, that the
Short Line letters don't fool them a
little bit
Here is the article published last
Sunday. 1t tells the whole story and
shows that the Oregon Short Line
general passenger agent is smooth.
but not smooth enough to fool all the
Ogden people,
Read this story from Sundays pa
per and then ask for the same rate
Salt Lake City receives-nothing
more. nothing less:
From Sundays Examiner.
This paper has OF late been asked
many times If 1t were true that the
Oregon Short Line had offered the
Four Slate Fair just as low a rate as
had been offered by the Denver &
Rio Grande railway, 1t Is claimed
that the Oregon Short Line people
assert they have offered just as low
rate for the Four-State Fair as was
given by the Denver e Rio Grande
railway and the Western Pacific rail.
road.
This paper has made an investiga-
tion and finds the statement is not
true First Of all, the Four-State Fair
den TO give Ogden for the week be-
ginning September 6, tho same rate
such railroads give Salt Lake City for
conference and G. A r, excursions.
The Rio Grande people responded
promptly by saying that their road
gave Salt Lake City n one price rate
for the round trip and to show that
they did not intend to discriminate
against ogden. would give Ogden the
same rate for The InterMountain Four
State Fair in Utah and Nevada
The Oregon Short Line general pas
senger agent responded. after much
the Oregon Short Line could not give
Ogden the same rate they gave Salt
Lake City for conference and G. A. r.
excursions, but would give Ogden a
four-cent per mile one-way rate for
the round trip, or one cent per mile
more than the same road charges on
Salt Lake excursion rates.
In other words, Salt Lake can get
rate 33 1-3 per cent better from
the Oregon Short Line than Ogden
can, while the Rio Grande railroad
gives Ogden exactly the rate it gives
to Salt Lake City.
lNOh tohtto tlS OlC6pn tohOit iihS
and says that the Rio Grande charges
four cents per mile regular fare each
way. while the Oregon Short Line
charges only three cents per mile each
way regular rates, and that when the
Rio Grande gives Ogden It's one price
for the round trip, it is equal per milo
to the Short Lines one and one-third
rate, as in each case it would be four
cents per milo.
Now, II It is true that the Rio
Grande's regular rate is four cents per
mile or cents for round trip and
the Short Lines regular rate Is three
cents per mile one way or six cents
per mile the round trip, then one
half Of the Rio Grande rate would be
the same per mile as 1 and 1"3 rate
Of the Short Line, or four cents. We
deny that the Rio Grande charges four
cents per mile regular rates. 1t may
do so in some instances, but let us
admit that ii does charge four cents
per mile and that it gives Salt Lake
conference n half rate or two cents a
mile each way, does the Rio Grande
discriminate against ogden? No: 1t
gives Ogden an equal chance with Salt
Lake City. That is all Ogden asks.
The Short Line, however, charges Salt
Lake City one-half of its three-cents-