Show FREll A3iD PASSENGER RATES E G W Officials Go East to Attend Important Im-portant Meetings General Freight Agent Babcock of the Rio Grande Western leaves this morning for Kansas City where he will attend the transMissouri freight rate meeting Several matters directly affecting Utah rdtcs will be brought up for considera u among them Seine the special con L > ons t be granted the Salt Lake copper cop-per irks on copper matte and refined proa sAn I s-An ncr important subject will be a prooo tion t apply to Utah the rates I now effect to certain Montana points TH dEL recently published the new aedule showing that lower rates are given from Chicago t Montana than toUt WORLDS PAIR RATES J H Bennett general passenger agent of the Rio Grande Western starts for Chicago this morning t be present at the conference of the general passenger agents of the railroads west of the Missouri river This metng will be of great importance im-portance a it will finally determine the rates to be adopted for the Worlds fair This matter has been pending for a longtime long-time The cause of the delay has been a refusal of the roads from the Missouri river t Chicago t concede a rate satisfactory satis-factory to the transMissouri roads Mr Bennptt and other western passenger passen-ger agents have endeavored t secure certain pledges from the hotels as a protection I pro-tection for their patrons but this will probably be impossible as the Chicago landlords believe they are going to have all the guests they can accoinodate and I situation will be disposed t make tho most of the |