Show I HEAVY REDUCTION IN I RATES mOM FROM PACifiC I ITO TO POINTS IN UTAH Short Lill Line and 0 W R N N N. Make Cuts Guts of F From 14 to 40 Per Cent 1 Portland 0 Ore Feb S. S S. Announce Announcement ment was teas made tod today that the Oregon Short Line and Washington Oregon I Railroad Navigation company have I put in ill twenty one twenty one commodity rates I I eO nearly all nil the manufactures 1 of or Oregon and effecting reductions un un- un 11 ier der 1 tho the old class rates of ot from H II to tolo 10 lo per cent to Idaho and Utah common un-I un This Is said to be bi the first Important Important Im Im- recognition of or coast manufacturers enabling em them to reach re the Rocky Hocky Hock Mountain l territory In competition competition com Corn I petition with the tho east cast and anti middle middie westI west I I 1 take It that these reductions b by bythe the Harriman roads are to put the north coast coat manufacturers on the fire same basis with relation to tills this intermountaIn taIn territory as S thc they were before we secured our reduction of ur rates from Missouri river points from the Interstate Inter state tnt commerce commission I salt said Stephen ii H H. H Lowe Love president of the Commercial Commercial Com Com- mercial club traffic bureau yesterday Prior to the reduction In rates from I I Missouri i river points point ordered b by the commerce commission slon coast coaNt manufacturers manufacturers could como come into this territory on approximately 75 iG per pcr cent of or the lJ Missouri lI 11 river or 11 rate tt Reduction netlon of the thelIs Missouri lIs wurl r river cl rate without a n reduction reduction tion of or rat rates from th the coast left the theOl Ol Oregon on people hl high h an and dry Print pap paper I perhaps In is the Pacific northwest commodity which competes most with whir the east cast In this territory rh The Oregon mills Immediately complained com com- and we helped then get et a re reduction reduction re- re As I 1 understand this dispatch dispatch dis dis- patch the W. O.-W. y R. R fi N N. and Oregon Short Line have ha reduced the rate on other coast commodities other than paper to permit them to compete In Inthis Inthis inthis this territory with the east Traffic men here have o not yet received official official cial notice from the roads of or the rate reductions |