| Show UNION PACIFIC FREEZE SALT LAKE JOBBERS PROTEST AGAINST THE RATES KATES will shut them out of idaho and let in omaha rates from portland lowered omaha july 13 union pacific receivers cheivers are receiving some emphatic protests from salt lake merchants on the new rates to idaho and montana from the missouri river which the union pacific will put into effect tuesday the salt lake jobbers complain that I 1 the he new rates will freeze them out of idaho and utah territory and will let in the omaha and chicago jobbers the jobbers say that the rate made to salt lake Is also made to thirty seven other towns in utah and that merchants there can purchase direct from the omaha jobber to idaho idah 0 points on dry goods the rate Is 1225 and to salt lake this bauts sauts them out of idaho to a great extent the jobbers have called the companas comp anys attention to this and they are forming an organization and protesting against the rates they claim it will make an annual difference in the salt lake jobbing trade of and that it will ruin their business the 0 R N has come to the front with a new schedule of rates tor for the benefit of the eastern oregon farmers the reductions are from eastern oregon to portland and are sweeping in character |
