The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-11
Commission Supplements Its
Decision Regarding Tariffs of
Carriers TO Salt Lake.
NEW RATES BECOME
EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER ID
Percentage of Reduction
Ranges From 4 to as Much
as 80 Per Cent.

WASHINGTON, Aug, 1o.-FormaI
orders in the Pacific coast freight rate
cases, supplementing the decisions rem
dercd two weeks ago, were issued today
by the interstate commerce commission.
In the Salt Lake City case. which
involves the rates on both classes and
commodities to all Utah points from
and TO Chicago. the commission directs
that the first class rates shall not ex-
ceed S2J5, from and to Mississippi
Missouri river points S1.90. Rates on
other classes arc made proportionatcly
lower
Rates on hundreds of articles de.
scribed as commodities not included III
classifications, are fixed between the
same points, specific charges in cents
per hundred pounds being named by the
commission, In every instance the rare
fixed is lower than the existing rate.
the percentage of reduction varying ac-
cording to the particular commodity af-
fected The reduction ranges from
about per cent to smuch, as in q
few instances, as 30 per cent All the
rates prescribed will become effective
on November 10, 1911.
May Be Enjoined.
It is expected by the commission that
aan effort may be made by the carriers
to enloin its orders in these cases II
that effort should be ucces,f,.l the -t-
fective date Of the orders would be
postponed until the courts shall have
passed on the cases.
Material reductions in both class and
commodity freight rates are made front
Atlantic coast points of origin to inter.
Rocky mountain cities Spokane,
Woeb Ram Nov Dhoapiy Ariz
and others similarly situated-although
the carriers are permitted on account
of water competition to exact rates
somewhat less to Pacific coast termi'
nails than to the intermediate points,
The orders issued today define ex-
plicitly the rates indicated in the opin-
ions as reasonable and require the car
riers engaged in transcontinantal traf
fic to establish the rates fixed by the
commission on November Is, 1911, To
insure an equitable and convenient dis
position of all cases which involve g
construction of the long and short haul
provision of the law. the commission di-
vides the United States into five zones
described as follows:
Five Zones Defined.
Zone ALI territory lying west of
line called line No, l, which extends
in n general southerly direction from
a point Immediately east of Grand
Portage, Mimi, southwesterly along the
northwestern shore of Lake Superior, to
point Immediately east of Superior
Wis, thence southerly to the intersec.
| ton of the Arkansas and Oklahoma
state lines; thence along the Kansas
City Southern railway to the gulf of
Mexico.
Zone 2--All territory lying east OF
line No. and west of line called No.
9. which begins at the Canadian boun.
| dary Immediately west of Cockburn
! island, in Lake Huron; passes westerly
| through the straits of Mackinaw
southcrly through Lake Michigan ia
Paducah, Ky, thence southerly to the
gulf of Mexico
Zone 3--All territory lying east of
line No. . and north of line extend
ing from Norfolk. Va, to Paducah, Ky.
and west of line No. 3 from Buffalo
\. Y, to Wheeling, w. Va, and thence
along the Ohio river to Huntington
w. Va.
Zone ALL territory east of line
No, and north of the Norfolk. Paducah
| line.
Zone 5-All territory lying south OF
| the Norfolk Paducah line and east of
the Mobile & Ohio railroad, known as
the southeastern territory, The rail.
ways are not permitted to exact higher
commodity charges from points in zone
l, to intermediate pints than to Pacific
coast terminals, From points in zone 9
permission is granted TO charge commo
dity rates to points intermediate to Pa,
clfic terminals 7 per cent higher than to
the terminals; from zone 3. Is per cent
higher and from 4. 25 per cent higher
No order is made as to the rates from
zone D.
The order In the Spokane rate case
which affects the rates not only to Spo-
kane, but also to Walla Walla, Wash.