Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-11
COMPLETE VICTORY FOR
IDAHO IN LOGGING
RATE CASE
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IN the stipulation will not be binding,
but the case will then be tried before
the Idaho commission. This is a con-
tingency. however. that Is regarded as
extremely remote.
Attorneys Donated Services.
Much Of the credit for the successful
termination of this case is duo to the
law firm of Frawley & Block, who do
mated their services In the case for the
public good, and whose advice has been
of great assistance in the preparation
of the case although it did not go to
trial.
The Capital News, after coming into
possession Of facts showing the tre-
mendous possibilities of the lumber in
dustry to this section and the handi-
cap Of rates against the development of
that industry, highly discriminatory as
the paper believed them to be, filed suit
before the Idaho public utilities COM
mission asking that the rates estab-
lished be declared discriminatory and
unfair and to establish rates that
would be fair, equitable and just. The
Capital News ask ed no assistance from
any one, and no aid was furnished ex
! cept by the law firm of Fraw1ey &
Block and except a few words of en-
couragement from individuals. on the
other hand there was encountered the
most active opposition upon the part
OF various interests and newspapers Of
( this section Of the state. The case had
been set for hearing on Wednesday OF
next week. At the close Of the hearing
in the Boise Lumber company New
| Meadows case before the interstate
! commerce commission this week in
volving practically the same questions,
| the suggestion was made by represen-
tatives of the Short Line that an amic-
| able agreement in the case might be
reached. AS a result of this suggestion,
a conference was held at which the
agreement as above outlined was
quickly reached. In behalf of the rail-
road officials, General Freight Agent
Reeves, his assistant d. r. Gray and H.
A. Scandrett, the Union Pacific and
Short Line attorney. 1t is doing no more
than justice to state that they met
every proposition courteously and with
fairness, and Il was to that fact that
an ultimate agreement was reached
which is regarded as satisfactory
The agreement reached is one that
will enable shipments to be made from
points on the Idaho Northern, and al
ready the Boise Lumber company has
taken up the matter OF the purchase
Of timber in that section to be hauled
to Boise to be manufactured at their
mill here They have secured the
names Of individual owners of timber
claims in that section and have notified
them that they will be in the market to
purchase logs from them. The differ
ence between the new rate which can
be made effective soon If desired, and
the rate they were paying on New
Meadows logs, which amounts to 80 "a
per thousand feet, is sufficient to en-
able them to turn the former loss that
they sustained into a small profit and
induce the probable renewal of actiW-
ties at their mill here.
The Stipulation.
The stipulation signed and filed with
the public utilities commission is as
follows:
1T is stipulated and agreed that the
hearing in the above entitled case bt
postponed until after the PRONUNCIATION
of the order of the interstate commerce
| IOilllllbHlOA AL lnC case VI DOlHG 1llH
Der company versus Pacific & Idaho
Northern Railroad company, ct al
Docket No. -, and that upon the
PRONUNCIATION OF said order the Ore
gon Short Line company will publish
rates on logs from Smiths Ferry. and
points north thereof, on the Idaho
Northern to Boise, Idaho. based on this
: same earnings per ton per mile as will
} be yielded by the joint rates so fixed
; by the interstate commerce commission
from New Meadows to Boise, and thai
, 1t will publish the same rates to Pay
cite, Parma, Caldwell and Nampa-
"The Capital News Publishing com
! pany agrees that upon the publication
) OF said rates its petition herein may b,
! dismissed
, This stipulation is subject to th'
proviso, that If the rates so fixed b.
the interstate commerce commission
! are considered by the oregon Shor
Line to be unreasonably low, and, It Ii