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Show I uu HIGHER FREIGHT RATE SOUGHT BYRAILRDADS SALT LAKE May 21. Freight rates! throughout Utah will be increased 23.91 per cent in a petition filed yes-j jterday with the public utilities commission com-mission is agreed to. Tho railroads joining in tho petition! are those which have already petitioned petition-ed for an increase in interstate rates also. The petition filed with the Utah commission yesterday is signed by George II. Smith and J. V. Lyle, repre- senting the Oregon Short Line, the Union Pacific Railroad company, and the Union Pacific system; by Van Cott Riter & Farnsworth, representing A. R. Baldwin as receiver of the Denver & Rio Grande, and also representing the Western Pacific and tho Tooele Valley Railway company, the Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific system; sys-tem; by Dana T. Smlthj representing tho Salt Lake Route and by Bradley & Pischel, representing the Utah Railway Rail-way company. nn |