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Show IAIlo Ml VtMBLINfi Immense Redikx -ns jn Freight Scheduw in the West u . Washington, Jan. 3. Immenso re-' t ductlons In freight rates have been made by the railroads operating in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast regions, in accordance with the orders or-ders of the interstate commerce commission. com-mission. The reductions vary from 9 to ill per cent Efforts were made to secure injunctions injunc-tions from the courts to restrain tho contmisbion from putting into effect its order, but they failed, In every case the reductions affect class rates. In what is known as the Sacramento back-haul case, the first-class rate is reduced from 1.29 to So cents and proportionately on other classes, to Reno, Nov. East of that point the rate is fixed at $1.15 and east of Elko, Nov., to and including Cecil Junction, Utah, It is made $1.54 By tho terms of the tariffs filed, the rate from San Francisco to the points named is made lower than was ordered by the commission, the rate to Reno, New, for instance being fixed i at 97 cents a hundred on first-class freight instead of ?U0 In the famous Kcno case, the reductions reduc-tions in some instances amount to more than 50 per cent. The old rate from Denver, Colo., to Reno. Nev., was $4.29 on first-class freight. By the new tariff it is made $2.10. The old New York rate was $1.20 and now s $3 50 Rates frcm intermediate points are proportionately lower. The railroads filed the tariffs putting put-ting into effect the new rates on January 2, 1911, and they must remain so at "least two years. |