Show Freight War in Colorado The freight war is on in Colorado Canned goods are cut from 7 cents t 4 cents per hundred Chicago haul and from 70 cents to CG cents river haul The Burlington started out and the Santa Fe more than met them The Burlington started out to play against the Santa Fe and the gulf roads they having an ocean connection The Missouri Pacific it is claimed has made a clean cut of 10 percent per-cent all around and the ball has fairly opened This brings the Gulf line Into it in dead earnest and that line will be heard from in no uncertain way With the eleven day delivery from New York to Denver and a 15 per cent reduction on all rail haul it has pot to be an important import-ant factor When the fight is over it will bo found that the line having ocean connections con-nections will come up smiling and all the actors will be wondering If the move wasnt a pretty expensive one for the nt gains In the stock of knowledge acquired bv them The war wont have long to run until Utah will also be In it even now there Is a feeling of uncertainty about no telling what a day or night may bring forth |