The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-11-17
ORGANIZATION TO WORK FOR
FREIGHT RATE REDUCTION

The people are paying on wheat
alone an increase Of $1,674,000 more
for hauling their wheat to market
this year than in 1918. They haul
the wheat from Oregon and Washing
ton for the same price to Chicago
that Idaho wheat growers are forced
to pay.
The average rate on potatoes in
1918 was So cents, at present the rate
lis 81 cents. An increase Of % cents
la hundred. Figuring two hundred
sacks to the acre this means $50 more
per acre freight rate. On $4,000 car
loads of potatoes that should be ship
ped out Of Idaho this year, the peo-
|ple of Idaho will pay $1,690.000 more
than in 1918 when the freight rates
were excessively high.
Mr.. Gray Of the Short Line took up
some of the matter discussed by Sen
ator Gooding and said the emergency
rate was not met by connecting lines
and the loss was absorbed by the
Union Pacific. He did not agree with
some of the statements made by SEN
ator Gooding. In order to make
freight reductions effective it was
necessary to get the consent Of con-
Meeting lines. The company would
be pleased to send man up to con-
slider the matter with the Chamber
of Commerce.
John Hart took up the matter of
the coal mines in the Teton valley
section. Senator Gooding states that
Of the people would take up that
problem and work on it in the right
way it would be possible to get the
mines opened and supply coal here al
half Of the present cost and that I'M
less that is done some coal company
will grab the mines and then the op-
portunity will be lost.
L. M. Earl gave some figures show
ing the rates on certain goods ship
ped in and shipped out, and said that
if it is necessary for the railroads to
keep up the present rates to live, the
rest Of the people will have to shu'
up shop and leave.
President Wright Of Anderson
Bros. Bank, said that with the ex.
ception Of Oregon and Washington
the financial situation was clearing
up. The banks under the federal re
serve were cooperating with thai
board and doing all that it is safel,
financially possible to do. The Sal
Lake branch has had big burden t
carry and was staying with the dis
trict and helping out in a way mucf
greater than known or understood
The banks had in many Instance
gone their limit in helping and coul'
not be expected to go beyond tn
safety limit or all would go down
That the banks could not loan none,
for speculative purposes or set peopl
up in business. He blamed the PEG
pie themselves in large measur
for some of their present difficulties
saying that personal extravaganza
had a great deal to do with it an
the way the people were working an
saving now and with the help of tn
banks who would stay with them,
would be possible to work their wa
| out.
Alter the meeting the Idaho Freigh
Rate Reduction Association, Easter
} Division, was organized, comprisin
! the IA counties Of Eastern Idaho wit
} one director from each county, VIII
{ will choose an executive committe
, Of five. j. L. Moore, Of Shelley, wa
r chosen from Bingham County.
5 was recommended that the action c
the meeting be taken up in centrs
f southern Idaho at Twin Falls, and tn
: same action in southwestern 1dah
+ with Caldwell as headquarters an
the three divisions cooperate wit
n the one object in view.
e A meeting is to be held at Pocatell
e on Friday, November II, when a pei
e manent organization will be effecte
: with operating bodies in every dis
e trict in every one the IA counties {
southeastern Idaho.