Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-21
LOWER COAL RATES
FOR IDAHO TOWNS
General Freight Offices Of Ore
qon Short Line Receives
Ruling.
is EFFECTIVE IN AUGUST.
ltnilroad Officers Say There VIII be- No
Appcal--Niany Points Bcneit
by Action Taken.

The general freight department Of nc
Oregon Short Line b. today In receipt
OF the docket In the recent decision or
Tho Interstate commerce commission.
ordering "a reduction OF 20 cents tou
In the freight rate from the Diamond
vile. Kemmerer and Rock Springs coal
mines in VS. uming To various points ln
Idaho The rate. which was Formerly
81 per ton. viii be reduced 10 $3.50 after
Aux ij. as that date IS designated by
the commission when the reduction
shall go into effect
The lower rate affects the towns ot
Twin Fails and Buhl on the Twin Falls
branch Of the oregon Short Lane. ana
the towns OF Glenns Ferry, Mountain
Home, Nampa Caldwell, Payette. ON
tariO and Meiser on the main me,
Boise ON the Boise branch and Haley
on the wood river branch, besides the
intermediate towns lying between me
points named In addition To- the
points named by the commission which
win receive the benefit OF the reduced
rate. the Short Line itself has place
Mackey, on the Mackey branch extend
ing out from Blackfoot, and 81 An
thony. on the branch line from Idaho
Fails. In the same list. and these towns
will share in the reduced rate on coal
The action leading to the order OF
the commission reducing the rate was
Instituted before the interstate com
merce commission by the commercial IN
terests Of the towns named last fepru-
AIRY. The argument was submitted 10
the commission that the rate was TOO
high ana asked FOR an order OF re-
duction. The matter had been taken
up with the railroad officials several
times prior to that time, and not long
before the railroad In response 10 re-
quests made by the commercial bodies
infs fs,lf a
the wyoming mines from $3.50 TO 81
The next time reduction was asked
the matter was taken up to tho Inter-
state commerce commission, the re-
suit being the order reducing the rate
80 cents per ton.
WILL NOT APPEAL.
Frank II. Plaisted assistant general
freight agent OF the oregon Short Line,
said this morning that his department
had received the docket aud copy OF
the decision in the case. The commits
sion has ordered the reduction said
Mr.. Plaisted, 'and the railroad VIII
abide by It, II Is not the intention OF
the road. as far as | am aware, to APP
peal from the order Of the commission.
When the date comes for the order 10
20 into effect the railroad Will put 1t IN
force In addition, the railroad VIII
reduce the rate to Mackey and St An
thony i'm the same proportion. although
these towns were not Included In the
commissions order, hut " the other
towns are entitled to the reduction,
the railroad considers the towns on the
Mackey and 81. Anthony branches are
entitled to the same reduction.
THE shipments OF coal into Idaho
from the Wyoming mines amounts TO
considerable In the course OF year,
continued Mr. Piaisted. In 1906, the
last year for which We gathered deh-
mite statistics, $4,000 tons OF coal were
shipped to the towns In Idaho west
~ pOcatcllo The increase In the bus
ness has been continual. until now II
must total up 100 900 tons In the course
Of a year. AZ the country settles up
naturally tho consumption Of coal IN
creases. and the reduction OF 30 cents a
ton cuts quite figure In the revenues
Of the road. liut the commission has 80
ordered II. and the order viii be
obcycd."
How the order VIII affect shipments
OF coal into the Idaho territory by the
Denver Rio Grande, was the subject OF
general freight agent of the latter road,
this morning THE order does not af-
feet shipments Of coal by the Denver *
Rio Grando," said MI Derrth, but OF
course II our road ships ans coal into
that territory II viii naturally have
TO meet the rate While the territory
il local to the Oregon Short Line and
the Denver 4 Rio GrRnde ships in
there by agreement with the short
Line, there has been considerable Titan
coal shipped into Idaho. What VIII be
done I'm the future cannot be decided
until the return OF Mir Reeves, gen
ctgtl freight agent of the short Line.
and our action viii be largely deter
mined on the action taken by the Short