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Show Stockmen Wei! Treated by Railroads National Association Issues Letter to Its Members Upon This Subject. DENVER. Colo., May 2$, Tho National Live-Stock association associa-tion has issued a circular letter to Its members upon the subject of railway transportation. In part the letter says: "That good service at the hands of railway companies is the thing most desired de-sired by all shippers, but the return pass is not the 'Insignificant Item' as It has been termed by some. This item means an annual Baving of 550,000 to the Texas Tex-as and $10,000 to the Montana cattlemen and a sum almost as large to the sheep-growers sheep-growers of Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. "It takes time for railway companies to inaugurate entirely new methods of transportation over thousands of milos of line. However, the promises made to i the committee of the National Live-Stock Live-Stock association to abrogate the tonnage ton-nage system in hauling live stock is being realized. "Reports from nearly every Western State are to the effect that the servlco has wonderfully Improved and that the railways are honestly endeavoring to give entire satisfaction. Advices from all the Eastern markets are that the service in time and prompt delivery Is now better than It has been at any time for several years past. "If It Is possible to get the Interstate commerce act amended as provided for In the Quarles-Cooper bill, the troubles of the shippers of live stock will be minimized. min-imized. The National Live-Stock association, asso-ciation, for four years, hns been aiding the Interstate commerce law convention to secure the enactment of this amendment. amend-ment. "The attention of tho traffic managers has been called to the inequality In livestock live-stock rates from several localities. They have agreed to a hearing on this subject,' sub-ject,' and it will be taken up by this association as-sociation as early as the data can be gathered with which a case can be maintained." |