The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-05-02

This paper has Of late been asked
many times II II were true that tne
Oregon Short Line had offered the
Four State Fair just as low a rate as
had been offered by the Denver d
Rio Grandc railway. II Is claimed
that the Oregon Short Line people
assert they have offered just as low a
tate for the Four State Fair as was
given by the Denver & Rio Grande
railway and Western Pacific rail
road
This paper has made an inyestiga-
ton and finds the statement Is not
true First Of all. the Four-State Fair
asked all the railroads entering Og-
Gen to give Ogden for the week be
ginning September 6, the same rate
such railroads give Salt Lake City for
conference and G. A r. excursions.
The Rio Grande people re-
spondcd promptly by saving
that their road gave Salt Lake
City a one price rate for the round
trip and to show that they did not in
tend 10 discriminate against Ogden,
NGulu 6lFt O6b'n Nllt iiN' iC'
the Inter-Mountain Four-State Fair
liz Utah and Nevada
The Oregon Short Line general pas
seager agent responded, after much
delay and evasion to the effect that
the Oregon Short Line could
not give Ogden the same
rate they gave Salt Lake City for con.
ference and G. A. II. excursions, but
would give Ogden four cent per
or one cent per mile more than the
same road charges on Salt Lake eX-
cursion rates.
In other words, Salt Lake can get
rate 80 1-3 cent better from the
Oregon Short Line than Ogden can,
while the Rio Grande railroad gives
Ogden exactly the rate II gives TO Salt
Lake City
Now comes the Oregon Short Line
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 its one price
for the round trip, it is equal per mile
to the Short Lines one and one.third
rate, as in each case 1t would be four
cents per mile
Now III il is true that the Rio
Grandes 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
NJ. 10 tl. frt
half Of the Rio Grande rate would be
the same per mile as l and 8 rate
of the Short Line. or four cents. We
deny that the Rio Grande charges four
cents per mile regular rates II may
do so In some instances but let us
admit that it does charge four cents
per mile and that it gives Salt Lake
conference a half rate or two cents
mile each way, does the Rio
Grande discriminate against Ogden?
No; il gives Ogden an equal chance
with Salt Lake City. That is all Og-
den asks. The Short Line, however,
charges Salt Lake City one-half of its
three, ,cents-per-mile rate each way, or
three cents per mile one way for the
round trip But 1T then turns TO Og-
den and says ou Ogden people arc
not quite as good as Salt Lake City
people. and for that reason we give
you the Salt Lake rate plus 33 1-3 per
cent"
That is what the Short Line has
done, and. when Ogden complains of
this unfair treatment, the Short Line
officers say. Why. our price and one
b1yd iS ingI tho mo nor r,,ln a. 10
Rio Grande single price-both are
four cents
Ogden answers back, We don't care
what the Rio Grande charges us so
long as Ogden gets the same rate per
mile that Salt Lake CITY gets The
Rio Grande gives Ogden just the same
rates 1t gives to Salt Lake City. which
the Short Line refuses TO do"
The Short Line people. however. are
trying to pull the wool over the eyes
of ogden people, as the prices charged
by the Rio Grande people are not four
cents per mile by any means In some
cases it may be even more, but few
isolated cases should not be used for
the purpose of misrepresenting the
whole matter. AS matter Of fact, II
does not make any difference what
any road charges in this case, as Oga
den wants only a square deal 1t wants
the same rates Salt Lake City re-
ceiyes. nothing more. nothing less.
But to show that the Short Line
people do not tell the whole truth We
publish herewith a statement of ac-
tual and regular rates charged by the
Rio GTande from Marysyale, the ter
minus OF the southern branch. to OG-
den. Utah.
The first column OF figures gives the
regular prices for tickets, the second
column gives the miles from Ogden.
the third column gives the prices as
they would be at four cents per mile.