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Show WILL REPORT TO THE CHAMBER. The Work of the Merchants' Committee to Be Submitted Monday. At a meeting last night of the committee appoiuted by the chamber of commerce and the merchants committee, the executive committee which had been appointed to confer with the heads of the freight department depart-ment of the different railroads centering to Salt Lake, made a report of its labors. The report was of a satisfactory nature, and it is understood was ratified by the dif-fereut dif-fereut committees. It-was deemed advisable, and the chamber of commerce requested it, that the work of j the conference committee be first submitted to the chamber of commerce before it he given to the general public. The chamber of commerce will, therefore, meet on next Monday evening iu the board of trade building build-ing to ratify the action of the different committees com-mittees in their efforts to secure a favorable adjustment of freight rates to this city. One gentleman, a member of one of the committees, stid this morning to a Times reporter re-porter that the work of the, conference committee com-mittee meant a saviug in freight to thi9 city of $1,000,000 a year. |