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Show Advance in Freight Rates. While Utah has many resources and natural advantages, the long-distance for mercantile supply points east and west is a disadvantage in shipping goods. Anything that tends to increase in-crease the burdens of that disadvantage disadvant-age will certainly not be hailed with delight by the citizens of th-'s Territory Terri-tory The new freight tariff recently adopted by the lines comprising the Ui:ah and Colorado traffic association advances the freight from Denver west. There are few changes in claes?s. but in every instance that changes have been made, rates have been advanced. An illustration in point is the rate on merchant iron, steel r:Ms. etc., which has been advance; ad-vance; I'ora Denver to Utah common points, from G'J to 78i cents per hundred. hun-dred. Th excuse for this action on the part of the roads has the merit of frankness their officers say they want to make more money. Had the advance been made in the |