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Show uu PETITION FOR CUT IN POTATO RATES IDAHO FALLS, lun.. Nov. 17. Expressing Ex-pressing lh" unanimous opinion that I the potato Industry In the Upper Snake ; River valley can only - saved through a reduction In freight rates, the Idaho I'otato IHmI-i' association and the Idaho Falls Potato Growers' association, associa-tion, sent a Joint telegram Thursday morning to J. A. Reeves, general freight and passenger agent of th i re.gon Short Line petitioning for spe-j Hli reductions in rates on potatoes. The reductions requested run from 8 I .-(tits per hundred pounds to 17 cents per hundred, according to destinations; Of shipments. The petition charac-i terlzes the reductions as "a basis up-, on which the potato industry in Idaho i can survive." |