The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-05-09

grant to the Ogden -Four State Fair
tho same rates each road grants TO
Salt Lake City for conference and the
G, A. n. excursions this year three
times. The Denver & Rio Grandc and
the Western Pacific railroads respond
ed that they gave Salt Lake City a
one price one way 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 tho conference and G..
A. r. excursion one-prlee one-way
for dhe round trip but that Ogden
would have 10 pay ono price and a
third. or 80 pcr 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
cloverly written for the purpose OF
deceiving the Ogden people. But
hundreds Of people have called us up
by phone and sent their lettors 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
little bit
Here Is the article published last
Sunday. II 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 rccciyes-nothing
more, nothing less;
From Sundays Examiner.
This paper has OF late been asked
many times II IL were truo that the
Oregon Short Line had offered tho
Four State Fair Just as low a rate as
had been offered by the Denver &
Rio Grande railway II Is claimed
that the Oregon Short Line people
assert they have offered just as low i
rate for the rourState Fair as was
given by the Denver & Rio Grando
railway and the Western Pacific rail
| road.
This paper has mado an inyostiga-
tlon and finds the statement Is not
true. First OF all, the Four-Statc Fair
asked all the railroads entering Og-
! den 10 give Ogden, for the week be.
| ginning September 8. tho same rate
such railroads give Salt Lake City for
conference ard G. A. r excursions.
Tho Rio Grandc people responded
promptly by saying that their road
gave Salt Lake City ne-pricc rate
! for the round trip and To show that
] they did not intend to discriminate
/ against Ogden, would give Ogden the
game rate for the Inter Mountain Four
State Fair in Utah and Nevada.
/ 4 IN
senger agent responded. after much
delay and evasion, 10 the effect that
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 80 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.
Now comes the Oregon Short Line
and says that the Rio Grande charges
four cents per mile regular fare each
way. while tho Oregon Short Line
charges only three cents per mile each
way regular rates, and that when the
Rio Grande gives Ogden Its one price
for the round trip, II is equal per mile
to the Short Lines one and one third
! rate, as In each case it would be four
cents per milo
Now. II Il Is true that the Rio
| Grande's regular rate is four cents per
mile or cents for a 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 ! and l-3 rate
of the Short Line. or four cents. We
deny that the Rio Grandc charges -four
cents per mile regular rates. II may
do so In some instances, but let us
admit that II does charge four cents
per mile and that II gives Salt Lake
conference half rate or two cents a
mile each way. does the Rio Grande
discriminate against OgdenI No; II
gives Ogden an equal chance with Salt
Lake City That is all Ogden asks
The Short Line. however, charges Sail
Lake City one-balf of its three-cents