Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-03 | Page 12 | Live-Stock Men Get All They Want

LIVE-STOCK (WEN GET ALL THEY WANT DENVER. May 2. Other Western and Northwestern roads have now followed fol-lowed the lead of the C. & N. W. In yielding the points disputed by the National Na-tional Livestock association. This Is the result of a conference between be-tween a committee from the National Livestock association and the general traffic managers of Western lines, held In Chicago on February 25, at which the former demanded the abolition of the tonnage system In hauling live stock, the restoration of the return pass to bona fide shippers and a readjustment readjust-ment of freight rates from certain localities. lo-calities. The roads granted the first and third requests on April 1 and the order which wenl Into effect today confirms tho rumor ru-mor In circulation and gives the slock-growers slock-growers everything they have asked for.