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Show WANT LOWER RATES. Denver Shlppern Say Present Tariffs Aro Discriminatory. DENVER, July 12. A reduction of from 10 to 40 per cent in class and commodity com-modity rates affecting more than 300 articles is aslccd on shipments from east of the Mississippi river to'New Orleans, Galveston. Memphis. St. Paul, Minneapolis Minneap-olis and Chicago to Denver and Salt Lake City in the ense filed with the Interstate In-terstate commerce commission by the Denver chamber of commerce. Special Examiner John S. Blrchmoro today began taking evidence. The hearing hear-ing is attended by many prominent railroad rail-road men from the east and west, Evidence Evi-dence introduced by A. B. Trott, manager of a Denver department store, tended to show that freight could bo shipped from points cast of the Mississippi to Salt Lake City and reshipped eastward as far as Pueblo at rates practically tho same as those In forco from the eastern points to Denver. The Salt Lake City rates that went Into effect Kovomber 15, 1011, according to Stephen IT. Love, president of the Salt Lake Commercial club traffic bureau, gave to the merchants here a better rate on many articles than is enjoyed at Denver. Den-ver. Soon after the Salt Lake rate went into effect the Denver chamber of commerce com-merce filed a complaint with tho interstate inter-state commerce commission asking for the reduction. The evidence gathered at the hearing in Denver will be later submitted sub-mitted to the interstate commerce commission. |