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<br />, <br /> <br />f' <br />~ <br />~ <br />~~ <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />RefininR of End Products Not Economically Feasible in Utah <br /> <br />The lowering of power rates at Los Angeles could re- <br />sult in the establishment of refining units at this seaboard <br />in competition with other tidewater locations, especially the <br />Atlantic Seaboard where most of these units are now located. <br />This would in no sense affect Utah adversely as stated, since <br />such operations are not economically feasible there. <br /> <br />The facts are that commodity rail rates imposed upon <br />refined products from Utah or adjacent mountain points, would <br />be much higher than the rate-in~transit schedules now applying <br />on unrefined products going to the Great Lakes and Eastern refin- <br />ing points. It is for these re~sons that such operations are <br />not now carried on in the Inter-mountain region. If such <br />operations could be established in Southern California instead <br />of at these Eastern points, due to reduction in power costs, <br />with equal compensating rate-in-transit freight schedules or <br />combination rail and water haul, then it would follow that <br />Utah and the entire mountain district would increase their <br />mining and agricultural markets by this further stimulation <br />of industry at the Southern California Pacific Seaboard. <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />.1 <br />