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Show mm on wool oUTOO HIGH, SAYS i THIIN r I Commerce Commission to KTake Action Unless Rail- ! lift, 'I ft ft r" roads Reduce Charges Ml ? !& . by May 1. 'i Western growers SSii ? ARE HIGHLY ELATED 7'- Secretary Stewart of the Utah wf Association Declares Saving &i -Will Amount to at Least W.J ; 5400,000 Annually, st . V4' J 3t ff I tASHINGTON". April 12. Radical Wl Wl rcducl'ons n freight rates on ar llw w00' notn n sacks and In bales bn transported from western P ; points of origin to eastern des- ImtT fnatlons were prescribed toda.y by the , rterstatc commerce commission. jorHi "The opinion was handed down by f Salraian Prouty. It holds that the pres- !l aSi f ',1S a nundrc1 founds of tool In sacks from Colorado common ied 01 lnts to St. Louis should not exceed 'Ctt 9 cents and that from points west of flan tnnc' Wv0- on the Union Pacific. E, ad Trinidad. Colo., on the Santa Fc. 5 & rate to St. Louis might be 'J cents lifter for each additional twenty-five nSM iiSSts. On the Denver & Rio Clrando a real 16 of 90 cents Is authorized from the ipt Matlon west of Pueblo, with a slml-T slml-T T( '- Dt incrcase frc,m joints farther Concerntng the rates to bo applied on irouph shipments from western points !feS '? B5tori ami New York. Chairman it Em ?xoul' said they snould he constructed it m T 8l,,1In to Mie rates prescribed to oti tu's. 1" case of sneked wool, 52 rtan flls to Boston and IS cents to New thai! ?r!t; C,1S of baled woo, 47 cents to " an l0l,c, i"l 3 cents to New York. ;rjd Jn the judgment of the commission, K-vilCKes should ho "allowed at llaki '"n31'ue nolnts on a direct line by li pa pjroent of 2a cents a hundred, on condl- tojhj ton tliat the shipments originated west rt(3Bme Exceptions. fljfBiP cerlai" instances the commission IBl1' tho carriers to exact a higher to JM1'? fr a short than a lone haul. irB14 rales which are to be put Into cf- tf'IK JIa 1 '0r Wo1 sn,Dn,cnts fr the !vBK Mountnl" slates will supersede 'iSE Dre8cnt "lies to Boston of $2.13 per pound!! from lho exlensve blanket jeaB?r,lory covered by the Union Pacific o anJ which is held to be unroason- "ttiit'' T'U) new ratcs nro ln a11 cnsos htl"Kit1 n carlond 10,3 of -4.000 pounds of ssfeW&ed wool and 32,000 pounds of com-''jSJB"5'1 com-''jSJB"5'1 or baled wool to the car. From C"M?1Vcr' Cheyenne and Trinidad to St. ' 9'" ,n! latc ls reduccd to 80 cents per TRlM Pounds imd the through rate from AlK"6 r0,nlH t0 Boston Is reduced to $1.32 Aywr 100 pounds. Beginning1 at Cheyenne tiM1'01' wo"st 0,1 tllc Unlon ra-clfic. the V'irfjB) Increase 2 cents for each r tSjfoty-Hvo miles, which v.-lll make Hie h Am;11'"' Salt Ijakc Clty an,J s,ml,ar,y sil ' points a through rate to Boston of it. J-;7" 100 pounds, belli? a reduction nir8i ents trom Present rates. Begin-ef Begin-ef K at "'"'d"13. Colo., and cotne west j plmi tlle Sana Fo, the same ineroaso will sjWB'. applied. Agta on the Rio Grande. g to the Deuver & Rio Grande a rate fMrt f'2 Wl" bc aPI,,lcfl at ihri ffrst stA" off M' WeHt of Pueblo, boyond which the. jjtit. 4t will Incrnnsc 2 cent?: for each wSjj ntJ--flvo miles. Ilates upon the nar-jcirf nar-jcirf T1 ,,nK f the Denver & Ulo tU.f ranie and the Western Pacific may bc . oatwhat hlghor than the rates Indl-Sji Indl-Sji h Wlth local conditions being dealt t& ilf t0 determine the Increase. )TiH l '8s than the maximum rates on d.P&iykfl wool. Wool will not be classed ff.1 unleaa a denr-ity equaling nine-Hounds nine-Hounds to the cubic foot Se secured. J1'4 decision recilnB that corrlorH will t.iWJ until -May 1 in which to check ifiWta In substantial at-conl with the 'Jwon of thu commission. If that has IHJjjHj kfi donr. on the date named, the il JmleEinn will proceed to make a JW?111 order establlahlnj; the ratea. |
