The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-11-21
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THE LONG AND
SHORT HAUL.

| hold that il is an imperative duty Of every ag-
riculturst to investigate and become familiar with
both sides Of the transportation question so that
the claims for the abolition of abuses the part
of the carrier may be sound and entitled to the re-
spect Of the railroads For instance, what would
any unbiased authority think of the claim that To-
cal freight should be hauled cheaply per ron
per mile transcontinental freight, everything he
ing proportionately equal in the physical work in
the two cases? Take, for example, a carload ship
ment a short haul of 100 miles in business
that requires the car to beereturned empty and the
car to be promptly moved 1t requires the ship
per one day to load the car, one day to have it
unoaded and the railroad day to take It 10 its
destination and return it empty.
This is 70 hours for the round trip. The. rail-
roads revenue was all earned in the twelve hours
while moving the loaded car to it's destination
twelve hours of paying work, sixty hours nonpay-
ing work-or the car bringing in revenue only one
sixth of the time. With the long haul the following
is true Take for example, carload from Los
Angeles to Chicago allowing literally two days for
loading the eight days for the to reach des-
tinaon, two days for unloading and eight Gays tor
the car to be returned empty-a total of twenty
days This shows that the car was earning revenue
for the road eight days, two-ifths of the time.
Assuming the elevations to be overcome to be
in the same ratio as the two distances, the cos,
of energy required to move ton one mile would
be the same Then the earnings of the car on the
long haul, during the twenty days required TO
make the trip twice that of the car in
service the short haul, the same class of freight
being handled and the speed of the two trains be-
ing the same. The ratio of earnings of the car on
the short haul to that of the car the long haul
is as onesxth to twoffths, while the car on the
short haul is earning $40 the other earns S24.
The railroads do not need their side of the
Rut he
farmers need it, for in all fairness and utility to
their own cause the farmers must understand at
least all the intrinsic elements both sides that
go toward establishing just freight rates Pursuing
the economic reform in under my observa
ton, community of local shippers in which held
a farmers meeting year ago had compliance
for years about the excessive freight rates charged
upon transporting farm produce to market. The Ia
riff was indeed high, but the tonnage was small and
offered in very irregular and jumbled way to the
railroads.
The growers had not thought of any plan by
which the produce could be handled more system
aticay and economically upon the part of the car
riers Finally shipping association was formed
and sufficient freight guaranteed to the rail
road to take notice. Some difficulties in loading
and in handling back the empty crates were re-
moved, and | remember item showed that
$4,000 worth of eggs were shipped by the associa.
ton of nine cents a crate in the freight rates and
the railroad has doubt made more money since
the reduction than before upon this class OF pro
! duce. So the short haul rates may be reduced
sometimes with profit to producer, consumer anO
carrier where economical practices adopted n
the preparation, system and amount of produce
| hsndled.-J. w. jeffrey in Field and Farm.
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| II it is good to use attention tomorrow, how
much better is 1t to do today. II tomorrow Il
is in your interest to attend how much more is tc
day, that you may be able to do so tomorrow also
and may not defer 1t again to the third day :
| Epictetus.
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They who without any previous knowledge o
us think amss OF u.s. do harm they attacl
not u.s. but the phantom of their own Imagination
La Bruyere.
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In reading foreign comments the election
is led to ask who the Democracy were tryin
to please most-Europe the United States
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1t is a good thing that Turkey got a bellyfu
before Thanksgiving.
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And now the other fellow is asking: 'wh
creased the track?"
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Any man who runs for office would rather hay