Show A WOOL ItATE WAR Tho Union Pacific Makes a Discovery and a Big Cut There are unmistakable symptoms of a little flurry in Utah wool rates In fact the first gun in the war has been fired and the result is a cut of 41 cents per 100 from southern Utah to the Atlantic sea board The rate on baled wool from Utah common com-mon pol nts to the seaboard has been 226 A short time ago the Rio Grande Western West-ern reduced the rate from Thistle which is not a common point to Missouri river points from 135 to 1 Using this 1 rate as a basis the agents of the Westerns West-erns connections it is alleged are mak log a through rate from Thistle of 180 and the Union Pacific accuses the Western West-ern of taking wool out of tho Sanpeto valley to Thistle for five cents thus mak lag the rate to the seaboard fl85 When he Union Pacific learned of this condition condit-ion of affairs a rate of 185 from southern south-ern Utah points was promptly announced A fierce fight is being waged for the wool traffic and the war is not yet over |