Arizona republican., 1921-09-09
CITY MENACED . BY THREATENED
 RATE REVISION
Business Life Of Phoenix In Balance = Adverse Opinion Bysk c. C., To Destroy Many Institu- tions

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 What is declared to be perhaps the most important issue ever to come ! before the interstate copmerce com mission-an issue which affects every shipper in the intermounta1n states and which, if an adverse opin- 1 ion is delivered, will destroy every | jobbing house in the intermountain region-has been brought to the at | tention of the traffic mensof the state | through the receipt here of copies or an application of the transconu- mental railroads in which they ask for a revision of, the famous fourth section of the l. c. c. rulings with particular reference to a reduction of freight rates to Pacific coast ter minals.
 In asking permission of the inter state commerce commission to reduce | freight rates to Pacific coast termi- . 1 nals the carriers have refrained from asking for corresponding reductions | to intermediate points. In fact, the l carriers ask that the rates to inter
 mediate points, as to Phoenix. be | made by adding the local rate from | Pacific coast terminals to the trahs-
 continental rate where the rate does
 not exceed the present tariffs from
 eastern centers to the intermediate points in question.
 Copies of the application have beer
 received by Roland Johnston, chic
 of the traffic bureau of the chamber
 of commerce, and by the state cor
 poration commission. Johnston l:
 Arizona representative of the Inter
 mediate Rate association. which wa:
 formed by the traffic men of the in
 termountain states several months
 ago when the first indication of tn
 plans of the transcontinental carrier became known. This association
 comprising all the traffic bureaus l commissions and traffic experts O the intermountain region, is prepar : ing to fight the application to l finish in each section of the countr. : affected by it.
 : What the granting of the applica . tion will mean to Arizona shippers i 8 fully set forth in the following ex copy of the application in the hand t What It Means S Bar iron from New York to Sa s Francisco. s1; from New York { r Tucson. s1 1s3k.
 d Structural steel, New York to Sa d Francisco, s1; New York to Tucsor
 $1.S3R
 d Cyanamid. in bags. New York { if San Francisco. s1.o5: New York { e Tucson. sS.161s.
 - Building paper. New York to Sa Francisco. s1 65; New York to Tue = son. s1.S3ik.
 Prepared roofing. New York { San Francisco. s1.65; New York - Tucson, $1 .92.
 % Soap and washing compounds. Ne -e York to San Francisco. s1. 40: Ne a York to Tucson. s192 Y Caustic soda and soda ash, Ne "a York to San Francisco, s1: New Yor of to Tucson. sl. S31k.
 7, Irvine and cordage, New York
 San Francisco. S1 80: New York
 Tucson, 1.s3h.
 - Wire rope. New York to San FraI H cisco. s1.2o; New York to Tucso II s1S3Ih
 Il Crude cyanide. Niagara Falls Il San Francisco. s1. .05; New York II Tucson, s3 0Slk.
 Fl Not the First Fiuht Il Those discriminatory rates we II first attacked in 1906. and in 1918 Il H intermountain states obtained rat II and in some instances. lower tn: II the latter tariffs. If the applic II ton of the transcontinental carrie II is granted now, according to Joh II ston, it will mean that the inte LII mountain regions will be put back
 years. and great distributing cente
 which have been built up since (
 rates were capitalized will be d
 stroyed. Tn Arizona, all distribute
 will either be put out of business.
 Johnston described it yesterday, m will be forced to transfer their ins R tutions to the Pacific coast. III The interstate commerce commi ~ sion has announced that it will 7
 dates for series of hearings in f rst affected territory, and one of tho d hearings will be held at Phoeni lb. The fight in Arizona will be talk ed up by the state corporation comm Dr. sion. the traffic bureau of the chal
 Der of commerce in Phoenix. and
 the mining, industrial. commerc a and civic organize tions of the Eta rs. each of which will prepare its O ue particular case.
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