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Show Pffll C! fll BENEFIT SALT I Low Freight Rates Force Jobbing Cenfe, Toward Coast. FAVOR WATER R0l Heavy Buyers Say I Will Use It Unless Ri; roads Cut Tariff,. If western business houses W in New York and ship it the Panama canal to Pacific ,'0Si?. and thence inland because it is than buying in the middle ir shipping all-rail, there is a pw. that the jobbing distributing will be shifted from Missouri points to the intermountaii an, cities. Many .western houses are aliea-'-ing this ainco new ocean freight V from New York to Pacific eois't-were eois't-were announced recently. Some '' observers are of the opinion tha less freight rates from tie mid!., to the Pacific are cut to meet r: competition, Chicago, Omaha, St.' and Kansas City will lose l-l and prestige as distributing tr. They see an opportunity for Bait Ij Spokane and the coast cities t ture the distributing business, b: an advantage of cheap shipmetb: the east by way of the canal. As yet none of the larger 8iif business institutions has skippej" middle west to deal with the ti-: account of the low rate by wan! canal, but many of them believe ; they will Boon come to it. A; them are Colonel T. G. Webber. ; tral manager of the Z. C. M. I.; . J. Wallace, manager for Auerbici ; pany, and others. Are Now Stocked. Most of the big houBes have i their buying for the next year When they restock for the perioi yond that they will look into the route question. That time is l-distant, l-distant, for the big houses buy ii ahead of time. Imports from the Pacific coar to the effect that coast jobber? elated over the water rates froz! York and other Atlantic pons, are already largely iocreasing business becauso of it. These;:':' and trade reviewers on the eoi-u ly predict heavy buying byway:: canal and the Pacific ports on tii : of western inland cities ivhh'h ': previously found it more adva:t;:: to get supplies by rail from Mj-:sl-: river distributing points. Eal: 1 City, Spokane, Denver, Bo:w Butte are cited as the principal :t inlaud buyers exacted to do th.: This being so, the question sa:.-arises sa:.-arises in the minds of those whor such things, will not these iniau' :: particularly the large and fap situated ones, such as alt Spokane, become then the Wat distributing centers for areas re: far bevond their present tribm.7 ritory"aud encroaching upon it; -souri river centors themselves! Water Rates Are Low. The new water rates from 'e; to Pacific coast ports give rate of 50 cents on grocens canned goods, 40 cents on soar, : electricn'l goods nnd 23 iron bars, plates, springs m items of hardware. These Bp; taken cssually from the lists I' rates. Pacific coast business say that with these rates tail -Citv, Spokane aud other mlas'l will find it cheaper to buy u.tt; and ship by water to the Pa-and Pa-and thence inland by rail, or r eastern goods based od suctis--froni coast jobbers, than to W -Louis or Kansas City or Hicc- ship bv rail. , , ... 'That is so,'' comment) Webber of tho Z. C. M. lt other Salt Lake business n-' ; will undoubtedlv buy that though Z. C. Jl. I- has l.i as vet. With the opcmnS ";. Panama canal wo aro commc"' believe. " .., "Twentv.five years ago. Wallace of the Auerbach cc-, "we bought goods in shipped bv boat to the Isthw across to "the Pacific and ty San Francisco and mlani l cheaper than we could buv la dle west markets, and u i rates through the r&8 K',' vorable, I think we will & . .'. We continued that buying J -vears ago until the rail.ro)' fates to 1-tah from m.ddle J points. Maybe they wi.l 4, . to meet water .-ompetiticm. ent we do quite a Rood d' in New York, and will route to the Pacific and bE rail on Roods we are not get." Buyers Investigate. P. L. Dovan, manager oM Utah Grocer company. panv was senoiish ,; possibilities of the new at shipments from the west. j,. Reports from the const .V railroads touching tho r increasing their t.11?,., Jfi, cities to points 'liaD.d7:ni, W-considerable W-considerable distance ' miles and more. ,ie etc While sbipxnonta from '.,1, Salt Lako may be cbeP" ;tl3t tor route to fhe coast ,. ,) rail, the savinfr 1 oe act ,t( shipments from &JtoJ,(ST0!'V Hood River Ore., ship their boxes t'oa New York for S3 cen ts W , ;s would cost Vtah JTo "and bv rail to San f ra 'Sl w f? lean bv the water route. a to ship to New ork HV ,(J is cheaper than the ran route. |