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Show WILL EDUCE RATES ON WOOL IPJ JUNE Carload Commodity Rates to Intermountain Territory to Be Published .Soon. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON. May 16. The Intor-stalo Intor-stalo commercn commission has directed tho railroads to nut Into effect on June I tho reduced freight rates on wool, proscribed pro-scribed by the decision of tho commission made April 12. The now rates will supersede the present pres-ent rato to Boston of $2.13 a hundred pounds from the blankot territory covered cov-ered by the Union Pacific lines, which Is held unreasonable, and from Denver, Cheyenne and Trinidad, thu rate to Boa-ton Boa-ton will be ?1.32 per hundred. Beginning Begin-ning at these points and going west, the rate will increase two cents for each twenty-five miles, which will make the through rate from Ogdon, Salt Lake Clly and similar points to Boston 51.72, being a reduction of 41 cants a hundred from present rates, It Is expected that the commission will grant reparation and reimbursement re-imbursement of chargon over these rates on shipments mado ator May I. In reference to tho reduction in wool rates, which was ordered by the Interstate Inter-state commcrco commission April 12, S. V. Dcrrah, nsslstant general freight agent of the Denver & Itlo Grande, yes-tordav yes-tordav rccolved a telegram from H. M. Adams, freight traffic manager for the Western Pacific Mr. Adams, who is now in Chicago, said in his telegram that the reduced wool rales would bo published pub-lished as soon as possible, probably before be-fore June 1. The message also stated that the interested in-terested railroads will proceed at once to publish tho now carload commodity rates to all the intermountain territory. These will bo effective early in June. The rates to Spokane, upon which considerable con-siderable interest has centered, will be approximately the following per cent of the current rates to Salt Lake City. From Missouri liver points the now commodity com-modity rate to Spokane will bo 130 per cent of what It Is from those points to Salt Lako City. From Mississippi river points it will be 12 per cent greater than from the points on the Missouri. From Chicago It will be 16 2-3 per cent greater and from Detroit 25 per cent greator than from tho points on the Missouri river. From Buffalo, Now York and the Atlantic scahoard, tho rate to Spokane will be 131 per cent of what It is from tho same places to Salt Lake City. The rates from the different places mentioned men-tioned to Winnemucca will bo approximately approxi-mately the same as those to Spokane and to Reno they will be somewhat higher. |