The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-08
DENIES RELIEF
ON UTAH COAL


your company to make the rates uni
form from the points OF origin 1ndl-
Gated, you are respectfully asked 20
establish from those points to Provo
Salt Lake City and Ogden rate Of 90
cents per ton OF 1000 pounds on slack,
s1.15 per ION OF z.0G0 pounds on all
rates proceed from the application OF
six mills per ton mile for the max
imura haul of 191 miles, from Sunnyside
to Ogden for the coal other than slack,
and 80 per cent of the rate so obtained
for the slack. Under the use of proper
equipment ard the employment of mod
ton, with the very limited average SER
vice, these rates would unqueStlon-
ably yield exceptionally profitable re
muneration to the Denver & Rio
The cost of fuel is a large and most
vital factor in the living economies OF
our people, of every class, and with
practically unlimited native measures
of coal so very near at hand, WITHIN
their own state, there appear the most
forcible reasons for its being supplied
upon fair terms. and particularly that
the railroad transportation rates there
on should not be longer continued upon
the present extortionate basis: me
manufacturing interests are likewise
clearly entitled to the proper encour-
agement proceeding from reasonably
economical fuel supply. since It's aouA-
dance is so conveniently available
Utah has done and is doing much for
the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
company Since the lines within the
state were taken possession OF by II
about eight years ago. their earnings
from purely local traffic have much
more than doubled, and that phenom-
email growth has proceeded alrnost
wholly from the transportation OF the
native products of the state, and very
largely from its coal. With more ade-
quate transportation facilities, the re
rnarkable increase in earnings might
easily have been even far greater
These Utah lines constitute the banner
portion of the Denver & Rio Grande
system in earnings, and the people
should be permitted to reasonably
share in the bounteous prosperity OF
the carrier.
Nearly all of the states now posses posses
regularly constituted railroad conmls-
siOns within whose province rests the
proper regulation of railway transpO,T OF
tation rates. For such states as me
necessary data is at hand. we here pre-,
sent the rates on coal established
through their commissions, togetheI
with the current rates charged by your
company and those now asked loI,
hased upon similar mileage or same
extent Of service. and have re1erencs
to the mileage to Provo. Salt Lake
Ci+v and ogden. as shown above.
The rate per ton and mileage are;
cixtv-seven miles in Missouri-Lurn
and nut 42c North Dakota, lump aiu
nut. 52c. Texas. lump and nut &c S9c
Slack 6Oc. Iowa, lump and nut, sc
slack e2c. Illinois. lump and nut, sac
Utah. present rate. lump and nut 1-9O
slack. $40. Utah, now asked 1or' SlsIo
Seventv-three miles in Missouri
1ump and nut, 43c. North Dakota, iumI
and nut, SIC. Texas, lump ana nut, S0c
slack. CSC. Iowa, lump ana nut, 92c
slack. e4c Illinois, lump and nut, o2c
Utah, present rate, lump and nut Sou
slack. S1.40. Utah. now asked Tor luInl
and nut. S115; slack, 92c-
Seventy-seven miles in missouri
lump and nut, 44c- North Dakota, lumI
and nut. 55c. Texas, lump ana nut o0c
slack SEC Illinois, lump and nut. soc
Utah, present rate, lump and nut, Sl.oO
slack. s14O. Utah. now asked Tor, lunI
and nut s115: slack, &c.
One hundred and ten miles IN mis-
souri-Lump and nut, soc. North Dako-
ia. lump and nut, SAC. Texas, iunI
and nut, csc; slack, soc. Iowa luInI
and nut, sos; slack, nc. Illinois. &c
Utah, present rate, lump ano nut go
slack. sI.5o. Utah, now asked for, Sl-15
slack, SIC. -.
one hundred and eleven miles IN MIS-