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Show Water Competition. The recent advance mado In freight rales on canned salmon shipments from the Pacific coast lo eastern and middle western states Is having a decided effect ef-fect on the movement of this class of freight over the transcontinental lines. The former charge of 75 cents was ad.-vnnced ad.-vnnced lo S5. leaving the railroads unable un-able to bid for this business and giving a practical monopoly of It to the American-Hawaiian steamship line, which operates from Tacoma in connection with Clio Tehuautepec National. By tho new routo. the salmon Is carried from tho sound to New York by way of Santa Cruz, tho Tehuantcpcc, the Gulf of Mexico Mex-ico and to eastern terminals, then back to Chicago, cheaper than tho railroads will do it. The steamer Nevadan was loaded recently re-cently at Belllngham, with 60,000 cases of salmon from the American Fisheries company lo New York, 15.000 cases of which will be hauled back from New York to Chicago, for a total of 75 cents a hundred or 10 cents a hundred less than the overland rale. The rate from Pugct Sound to New York via the Tehuantcpcc Te-huantcpcc route is 45 cents and back from Now York to Chicago 30 cents, while Ihc haul across the country to either Chicago or Now York is S5 cents. The only chance the western railroad freight solicitors have of figuring on this business develops In the competition among the New York-Chicago lines for the back haul, and this very keen. Western West-ern freight men would like to get in on it, but rates prohibit them. |