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Show WOOL RATES TOO . HIGME5AYS Chicago, Sept 9 F S Gooding, former for-mer gdvernor of Jdaho, a veteran wool gro-ver, and representing the Na tfonal Wool Growers 'association, testified tes-tified beforo Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty today that the railroad rate on wool Is unjustly high. New methods of raising sheep have come Into use In the last few years and the expense is greater he said Tho range being well occupied, herds as largo as formerly cannot be handled Asked if there were many sheepmen who could not ship full cnrlots, witness wit-ness replied In the negative. Ho said that he knew shippers had received rebates from the railroad, but he per Honally never had received one. On cross-examination by counsel for tho Harriman lines, ho asid: "I consider your freight rates entirely en-tirely too high. I think tho railroads are entitled to fair earnings, but it seems to me tho wool growers aro paying more than their share of the earnings.' t |