Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-05-10

miles. For shipping minimum car
load of sacked wool of $4,000 pounds
| from Portland to Boston the shipper
pays the railroads $3.50 and out Of
the $3.50 the shipper pays for a car
load of sacked wool from Portland
| to Boston the Union Pacific for its
haul of 1874 miles, receives $333.20
THE rate on this carload of WOO
shipped from Portland to Boston is
16 cents per hundred from Omaha tt
Chicago, and Al cents per hundred
from Chicago to Boston; nor is this
all. Last year the Union Pacific asked
the interstate commerce commission
to put in a rate on wool from Port
land TO Boston of s1.35 per hundred
Hearings for that purpose were held
by representative of the interstate
commerce commission in this city
some time last fall; at that hearing
representatives of the Union Pacific
stated that rate of $1.35 per hun
dred on wool form Portland to Bos-
ton was compensatory and that the
railroads could afford to haul the
WOOL for that rate.
IF this rate of $1.35 per hum
bred on wool that the Union Pa
cific asked for from Portland
TO Bostan had been put into ef-
fect, the Union Pacific would
have received today, for hauling
"a carload OF wool from Port
land to Omaha, "a distance OF
1874 miles, S17S.20, yet because
they have monopoly over Ida
no, they are charging the wool
growers of this state $537.0O
fOI hauling carload of wool
from Pocatelio TO Omaha, dis
lance on 1868 miles; ard they
are now demanding a 10 per
cent increase on this extortion-
ate rate.
Il have been advised by eminent
lawyers that this discrimination
against the state is a violation of the
constitution of the United States,
that the supreme court has held, on
different occasions, that there can
be no discrimination in freight rates
this country.
Discrimination Charged
Here are a few more of the dis
criminations that the Union Pacific
forces upon the people of Idaho. The
distance from Chicago to the Idaho
state line on the east is 1890 miles;
the distance from Chicago to Port
land is 1852 miles, and to Seattle
2445 miles, yet the freight rate on
most CT the commodities from thu
east is the same at Pegram, the first
station in Idaho, as the freight rat
TO Portland and Seattle, for a hall
that is nearly twice the distance. The
lumber rate from Portland to Oma-
ha, distance OF 1874 miles, is 60
cents per hundred, the rate on
lumber from Portland to Gooding. a
distance of 592 miles, is As cents per
The rate On different commodi-
lies from Portland to Weiser, a dis
lance OF 412 miles, is the same as the
rate on these same commodities 10
Payscn, Utah, distance from Port
and of ISL miles.
I'VE have a little canning factory
1t Payette that has been struggling
for years for existence The freight
rate from Payette to Portland and
Seattle on canned goods is exactly
the same as on canned goods from
Utah to Portland and Seattle; a haul
that is more than twice as long. The
freight rate on canned goods from
Utah to Chicago is SO cents; the rate
Chicago is S1.05 per hundred, with
1nly few miles difference in the
ergth of the haul.
THE freight rate on coal from
Newcastle, Utah, to Gooding, a dis
ance of 466 miles, is s495 per ton;
he same coal is hauled to Portland,
/ distance of 1898 miles. from New
castle, for s5.S5 per ton.
The rate on wheat from Gooding
20 Chicago, distance of 1895 miles,
IS So cents per hundred; the rate on
wheat from Gooding to Portland,
distance of 500 miles, is 46 cents per
Before the 10 per cent reduction
IN rates, the local rate on apples from
Payette to Pocatello, distance of
200 miles, was 561z cents; from
Payette tc Butte, a distance of $50
miles, So cents; from Rochester. N.
Y, TO Memphis. Tenn, a distance of
1l9S miles 561a cents; from Ro-
chester to Chicago, distance of 6O9
miles, SO cents; from Romney, Va.
to Memphis, Tenn. a distance of 1899
miles. 81 cents.
THE fl eight rate on a carload
of cattle from PocatelIo to Port
land, distance Of III miles, is
$3.50. The freight rate on a car
load of cattle from PocatelIo TO
Chicago. a distance OF 1917
Is S215 car. The Union Pa
cIfic Officials are talking a great I
deal about Idaho becoming a
great, dairy state and believe il !
the dairy interest is given any /
encouragement, some day, Idaho
VIII be the greatest dairy state in i
the union, yet, the Union Pacific J
cffers no encouragement to held
this great industry.
The freight rates form Seattle and
Portland to Chicago and New York
on butter and eggs are the same as
they are from Idaho points: and as
we get it going and coming: if there
Is a freight rate in Idaho either east
OF westbound that the people are not
q l.