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Show Una. Thee, ar. the Unloa Parlrle evalem. the lHnver ar Rla Grand Western railway and tha Southern Pacirie llnaa, In eonnerilon uh tha Morgan Una of eteawiahlpe. Inder data of July 17. air. Prick-alt Prick-alt la advised that tha aouthern Pacific llnaa and tha Morgan Una ara wllllnt ta make an equtiahle ad-Juetment ad-Juetment of tha mattar na far aa thalr faellltlee reach, to Tesaa June-tlon June-tlon polnta. and In a letter to lha tTnton Pacific and Denver Rio Grande official, Mr. Piickatt yee-tarday yee-tarday pointed out tha alllingneea of tha Southern Peolflc to aid tha candy Induatry tiara and aakad their cooperation. RATE ON COCOA BEAIIS M BE COT Prickett Reports Raj of Hope for Encouragement Encourage-ment of Industry After months of painstaking effort ef-fort on the part 'of the traffic rr' Ice bumu of Vtatt. a ray of en-cot en-cot i rage m en t that la Indicative of ultimata success In securing a reduction re-duction In the rata on tha founds- i tlon of tba candy Industry In Bait Lsk. cocoa beans from Naw York, via, Oalveaton, and from that to a oommensurate raductton on chocolates choco-lates aranarally, was racelved recently recent-ly by H. W. Prickett, cneral man-alter man-alter and traffic counerl of tha hu itirom Will trim Himmnna of hm traffic acrvice of tba Southern Ia-cific Ia-cific llnea. Cocua. baans ara a product of tha tropical counlrtve. Thay (nrm tha basis of tha tmruanae chocolate tn-du tn-du striae of tha Worlrt. The planters In tha troplCs ship thalr cropa ta Nw Tork. whra tha beans ara sorted and graded In readincaa for tha trad a. Candv manufacturers of the whole country procure their aupplira from Now Turk dlraot or throuch job bare. Salt Lake at preernt consumes a1out two carloads of an avrace of mora than sO.twa ptunda each per month. . The exlstlnf rata to CUilt Itka la par hundred pound a The rata to Pacific coast terminals from New York In competition with water traffio is 90 cents par hundred hun-dred pounds. Tha e-reeir proportion 'of tha beans brouiihl to Salt Lake la manufactured man-ufactured here and shipped, among-other among-other places, to Pacific coast ports. It ta obvious that H there comes into direct competition with the beans on which tha lower freight rta haa been paid. Mr. Prickett made note of thje montha as;o, and also noted Ha vital Importance to the candy Induatry of Salt Lake. . After due Investigation, ha made application through the proper channels for a like rata, M cents, to apply to 8a It Lake from New York. The reduction one eras mainly three rail carriers nnd a "VTh'p |