| Show I THE CUTINRATES EAST + Local Agents re Receiving New She tsEvey Day i RESTORATION EXPECTED ± TRAFFIC OFFCIS TO ET IN NEW YORK Colorado Mdd Not Put a Reduced Rte IteUt a Stted In a Denver apTe Aa RoadB 0 Ele tonDabcock a Wadleigh xpected Tomorrow The bIg cut in freight rates made by the Milwaukee road lat week of which announcement was made in The Herald at the time ane a schedule of reductions on the most important art des published yesterday mornIng is now affecting local busIness to a considerable con-siderable extent Nearly alt the lines between Chicago and MIssourI river points have met the cut and from all reports the rate situation east of the river is in a demoralized condition generally gen-erally Agents of eastern lines here affected by the cut are receivIng new rate sheets almost daily and age kept busy fguring out to what extent the rate war in the eat is going to affect Utah The biggest big-gest cut is made between Chicago and Kansas City awel as Missouri river poInts further south The Rock Island Burlington and other roads In line of competition have met the reductions and no one seems to know just where It will end Rumors of secret rate cutting cut-ting are of course floating around at all times There Is nptling new in that I is not often however that open cuts east of the river have been made as low as the present iifld hat is more there seems to be no attempt at restoraton While Intermediate lines such as the Short Line Rio Grande Western and local Colorado roads are not affected dIrcty the general unsettled un-settled state of affairs in the eat is of some moment to these roads and all joIn in the hope that a general restoration tion will be effected speedily The only solution to the situation seems to be the meeting of traffic of dais which will be held at New York City on De G and at which representatives represen-tatives of all roads will be present The roads can of course enter into no agreement owing to the decIsion in the joint traffic case but there is no doubt but that a genera rate restoration will follow thd folow meeting I was rumored yesterday that the rate on mixed furniture car lots from Chicago to Utah common points which was raised on Nov 15 from 2 to 211 had fallen back to the old figure but no authentic information on the point was obtained from the officials here So far as a Denver papers statement to the effect that the Colorado Midland had put a reduced rate into Utah is concerned officials of the line here brand it as ridiculous because the Midland Mid-land being an intermediate line could not make such a move without backing back-ing from its connections The Omaha Bee of Sunday in speak lug of the rate war east of the rive says The cut to the southwest which knocked don rates from 50 to 75 percent per-cent has had its effect on rates to cent is Omaha Not on all of the commodities on which southwest rates were cut have the published tariffs been lowered but on a number of them On canned goods the old tariff rates was 27 cents per 100 pounds The new published rate is 15 cents but ft was admitted Dn the street this morning that 12 cents was the figure most often quoted On lumber the old rate was 12 cents the new rte is said to be 10 cents while those on the inside say 6 cents is being offered and accepted by lines that are greedy for busIness Rates on agricultural agri-cultural implements have dropped from 30 to 22 cents from hicago to Omaha and from 22 to l1h cents from the Mississippi Mis-sissippi river to Omaha I is believed to be only a question of days when all the goods on which rates to lower Missouri river poInts have been halved will he moved to Omaha on the same rates now offered to Kansas City The rates on the various classes of merchandise varous chandise are being put on the bargain surely table gradually but none the less |
