The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-21
L0vETT DID NOT
ISSUE THE ORDER
Head of Hartman System Not
Connected With Utah Fuel
Company.
NEITHER HAS HE TO DO
WITH RIO GRANDE ROAD
Likewise, He Is Not an Official
of Union Pacific Coal
Company.

"The Union Pacific Railroad COM
pany and the Union Pacific Coal com
pauy are separate corporations. Ihey
were segregated number of years ago
epd the two companies are operated ny
different sets of directors and different
sets OF officials.
"Wbcn fbc ease of thc late john
Sharp vs.. the Union Pacific Coal com.
Tanv was heard before Judge Marshall
in the United States court In SAT- LAKE
CITY this matter was Thoroughly
threshcd out and when the present
United States district attorney Tor
Utah. who is also the president OF the
Herald Republican company OF Salt
Lake CITY undertook TO convict the
Union Pacific railroad and the Union
Pacific Coal company as ono and the
same he WAS promptly called down by
the Judge.
Are Separate Organizations.
"As have said. these companies are
separate organizations and while neces-
sarily the coal companies use the rail-
road 20 transport their coal, there is
no alliance. all reports to the contrary
notwithstanding
'1'he charge. therefore. that the or
der reducing the cost of transporting
road and the further cut in price at
the mine by the coal companies was
made hv Mr.. Lovett is absurd-not only
absurd but utterly without foundation.
'R. s, Lovett is president of the
Union Pacific Railroad company. lie
has no connection with the Union Pa
clfc Coal company. and, therefore, he
could no more, under any circumstances
issue an order TO the Utah Fuel com
pany or the Rio Grandc Railroad com
pany To reduce the price OF coal or re-
duce the TRANSPORTATION rate over the
Rio Grande railway than he could fly.
4 statement that ne could do this is so
absurd that reference thereto is almost
unnecessary.
Statement Of Prominent Citizen.
The above statement was made to The
Tribune on Tuesday by one of the best
known citizens of Salt Lake and man
who Is thoroughly versed in the west
ern railroad world II came out during
conversation concerning the story
Printed under a scare head in the Her
aid Republican of Tuesday that the
price of coal had been reduced 80 cents
per ton by the order OF Lovett.
continuing, the gentleman said:
he coal companies that transport
their output over the Hartman system
OF raialroads furnish Salt Lake con.
sunlers with only 10 per cent of all the
coal that Zion uses. The other 90 per
cent comes from the Utah Fuel com.
panv and is handled over the Denver
( Rio iirande railroad. This railroad
cut the cost of transportation II cents
per ton. while the Utah Fuel company
rat the price ot the mine 81 cents per
ton or total cut Of 80 cents per ton.
Will Likely Meet Cut.
- have no doubt that the Union
Pacific Railroad company will meet the
cut of tho Denver g. Rio Grande rail.
road, but thus FAR il has not been
made The Union Pacific railroad has
no official in Utah that is empowered
TO change Z freight rate. W. il. Ban.
croft. vice president and general man
ager OF the Oregon Short Line rail
road and the Southern Pacific railroad
east of Sparks. New. is the one official
who would most likely be empowered
as il has ALWAYS been the policy of
the Union Pacific railroad to consult
their representatives who are on the
ground and who know conditions.
"Wbile Mr.. Bancroft does not rep
resent the Union Pacific directly. he
is trusted by Union Pacific officials.
and when he returns bone today from
his tour of inspection over the Short
Line system - cut in cCal freight rates
10 meet the Rio Grande cut may be
annonnccd Thus far no cut has been
aucounccd.
An Absurd Statement.
"That the cut in transportation or
the cut by thc Utah Fuel company
was by order of Mr.. Lovett. as VIII be
seen. is absurd as he could bave no
aut horitv 10 do so.
''ln order that the Wyoming coal
companies NAV compete with the Utah
Fuel company. Il cut Of 81 cents per
ton AT tnoir mines will have 10 be
made Ard there YOU are
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