The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-30

per cent of the business in Salt Lake
county Will be done with Utah manu-
facturers. instead of 10 per cent going
to San Francisco manufacturers be
cause OF the present discrimination In
rates.
Other Commodities.
Branching out to other commodities,
some of the reductions In rates Tor
carload lots, as shown by the traffic
bureaus comparison, are as follows
$3.50; glassware, 500; bottles, Sill;
carpets, $500; iron pipe, $l05 to $l40;
oilcloth and linoleum, 800; paint, Sis;
varnish, 1925; rice for brewers, $l96;
white lead, Sl77, rubber boots and
shoes, 1864; sash weights, 1924; seeds,
STA; sheep dip, S96; solder, 1925;
stoves, sl32: strawboard paper, 1882 /;
zinc. $2l6.
GAS to whether the consumer will
get any benefit, there is no doubt in
the minds of those who are familiar
with cost methods, said the traffic
man. as he took up book within easy
reach on his desk and turned to the
last item. This was simple little prob
lem in arithmetic where the Chicago
cost of a certain commodity used IN
dlHost every uOuScHolu was HOtcu- 1 ut
freight per pound was added and to
and the answer was 16N cents pound
selling price. '.Now, let see how
this works out under the new rate, y
he said The new example, in arith-
metic was worked, adding the freight
rate that will 60 in effect October 10,
and the answer was 1892 cents pound.
"Here is one item where the consumer.
as it happens. will save III cents a
pound, and selling at Is cents the mer-
chant will take eight hundredths of a
cent in addition to the regular present
profit, said the traffic man.
Zone feature of the railroad cam
peign has been a carefully planned cam
paign intended TO lead Utah manufac-
turers to believe that the lower rates
will injure their business. In this the
rate on canned goods from Missouri
river points will be reduced to 73 cents
The fact is that shipments of
canned goods from Missouri river
points are extremely light, while Colo
rado. Utah strongest competitor in
this line, has rate of 30 cents to Salt
Lake. Tears have also been shed over
the bier of the cement industry Of Utah
because the rate from the east has been
reduced to 45 cents while the rate from
Colorado to Utah is now and has been
33 l-3 cents for years.
More Light Shed.
"The Commercial club traffic bureau
has contended all along that it was to
the interest Of the carriers serving
Utah to put Salt Lake and Ogden on
an equal basis with the cities of the
Pacific coast and, according to the full
report of the commission IS decision, the
members of that body agree with us, :"
said Mr.. Love yesterday. "FThis de-
cision says: ITO disinterested obser.
ver. 1t would seem to be in the true in
terest of these transcontlnental lines
which begin at the Missouri river to
make rates which would build up the
interior points as against the coast
The haul to these points is shorter and
less expensive; the distribution is cas-,
ier but, above all, the traffic. which is,
created at such points belongs to the
rail line which creates it while the
traftlc which is fostered upon the coast
IS the prey of every vessel that sails
the sea. Carriers in the future will
doubtless adopt this method and will
voluntarily make rates to interior
points like Salt Lake and Spokane
which will enable those localities to
with coast cities.
Analyze this bit of advice given
the railroads by the interstate com.
merce commission in the form Of a
prophecy, said Mr.. Love, "and it
will be seen to indicate that this say.
ing of s1,250,000 year is only the be.
ginning of movement which will he
all the more welcome because it will
come voluntarily from the railroads
which, some day, will come to realize
that everything done to increase the
OF Salt Lake CITY will meon
more revenue for themseIves.'