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Show MERCHANTS PROTEST CHANGE IN SHIPMENT Protest by Salt Lake merchants against the proposal to cancel the privilege of consolidating less than carload shipments of goods into carload shipments at New York piers for movement west, which Is now before the San Francisco freight committee, will be made through the traffic traf-fic service department oureau of L'tah. according to H. .W. Prickett, manager of the bureau. The matter will be considered consid-ered by the San Francisco freight committee com-mittee March H. The cancellation of this privilege would work a hr-irdship on the shippers of the fntermoumain country, according to Mr. Prickett. Cotton uinierwear and hosiery are quoted a s an instance. It is stated that the rate on cotior. underwear and hosiery in less than carload quantities Is ?4.121r ; in carload quantities it is a difference of 62 cents pr hundred pounds |