Item Detail
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31540
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English
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Railroad Rate Regulation in Utah, 1896–1923
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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2019
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87
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4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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268-282
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"This article recounts early conflicts over railroad regulation and tells separate but intertwined storied : first how Utahns complains of 'despotic' railroad charges, and Sale Lake jobbers used federal regulations to win lower rates; and second, how state government, led by Republicans, relied on free markets, while Democrat came to advocate state regulation and eventually to enact a public utilities commission. Railroads presented the first instance of an enduring Utah question : how to attract needed investment while preventing exploitation by big out-of-state corporations." [Author]