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Show - WESTERN ROADS TO GET HIGHER . FREIGHT RATE Interstate Commerce Com mission Grants Increases yf That Will Amount to Large Sum V H1 TON Doc railro1 oic a e w the M ssirtipp ant " n a 1 the Ro l mountains r kra t 1 ases i freight rates he nt stat co un owe co i uissiou a on odit es inci ling g t It ral n(le onts canned goods an i t oot a i shos N sst tt ate of to n onal r en e the roada will ,x lr e f n he ad an es is ontalned n the oi a- ou rejort on the case, b t t w II no nt nto the hundreds of thou ands ann all despite the faet that nun erous ncnases sought ere denied Although there still are pending before the commiss o proposed increases on a tew other comn odities the general cam 1 a gn of the western roads to obtain 1 igher rates on tbe more important eom i od t es all is at an en1 Both the aes de ded toda an1 the one st II (And ug are relate 1 to the so-called west ad au e rate ase The first and most mportant part of this rase was de cdel weeks ago some increases being Uoned a J others refused and a petf tton for ife reopening recently was denied de-nied Important Increases. Important increases granted included carload rate on agricultural implements except to points In Louisiana carload rates on anned goods and carload rates oa boots and hoes and leather between M wiouri majautactunng points and po ots west Increases on many miseellaneo is items were allowed bat some others were held to be unjustified The record in the case does not disclose how sioch addi tlonal revenue the earners will obtain Among other increases granted were those in rates on flue luung, on dried and evaporated fruits in portions of the west and on furniture in carloads from Kansas City aad other points to pouts m Oklahoma Increases were 1 lowed also in certain cases in the efiarges for switching grain and in the transit charge of fruits and vegetables in the territory beyond the Missouri nver Increases were denied in carlosd rates on eggs from points in Kansas to the sou tt west, as were increases from points iroughout the west on eider and vino-gar vino-gar to points m Kansas and Missouri. Inereases on bauxite ore, used in the manufacture of aluminum, were denied in some eases and granted in others Alisoellaneous Items 4mong the miscellaneous increases al lowed was one of one per cent per 100 pounds on lumber in carloads from 3hi cao and H. Louis to Missouri river crossings and- an increase on hme of from 1 to o cents per 100 pounds on hipments from St. Paul and Afinneapo lis to Iowa Missouri and Nebraska points. Most of the new rates will be come effective January 31 and thestanfTs fontrame the increases disallowed most be ancelied bv December S next The increase proposed on agricultural implements was about two cents per 100 pounds on canned goods one cent tr 100 pounds on flue lining about thre cents per 100 pounds on eggs about three cents per 100 pounds on der and v negar from two to seven ents per 100 poonds on bauxite ore about twentv cents per gros ton on boots and shoes abont two and one half ents per 100 pounds on dried n ts about five cents per 100 pounds 04 furn ture seven cents per 100 pounds Fruits and egetables The transit charge allowed on fru ts and vegetables amounts to one and one Jialf ents per 100 pounds for storage T trans t with a m n mum charge of per ar The op n on of the comm s on s confine 1 st tl to a d uss on of he U or ts of tbe on e t nt fo an 1 aga nit the 1 1 dual 1 rren c o ?ose I et o t for one geueral r f eren e n this It savs The testinouv hoard tie western ad Slice rate cane relatl g o the finan clal nee Is of the carriers whs made a part of the record jn this ase That test mony was arefilh anal zed an 1 dec ssed n the neater a Ivan e rate case and will therefore not be agal discussed here but it has been care fully considered as part of the justi flcation offered by the respondents for the increases here prom sod The ncreasea in freight rates grant ed bv the interstate con mer e ro m s sion in the so-tailed western advance rate case do not iirectl affect the railroads of the intermounta n co n try proper according to local traffic ofBe als The ra lroads interests 1 n the case are those bet een the Mlssisa pp and M oun r ers and the Rocky' mounta n I th s connect on the Un on Pac flc will be ncluded n the list of roads benefited by the ad ances granted |