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Show mmi idahq mm for eik Thirteen Common Carriers Seek Permission to Add 1 5 Per Cent to Rates. Special to The Tribune. 1301SF., Idaho, May 2S. The steady advance ad-vance in the cost of materials of all kinds, the advances In wages, increasing taxes year by year. Increases In operation nnd 1 heavy demand for rolling stock because of the "prosperity in Idaho" were the basis on which the thirteen common carriers car-riers operating in Idaho made their claim : for a freight rate Increase of 15 per cent J before the public utilities commission to-diiy. to-diiy. The pro test ants wert present, but not h"nrd. They will formally present their protests on June IS. All of the northern roads presented their evidence in support of the proposed tariffs. The following are the roads appearing in support of the petitions and those representing rep-resenting tham: Boise Valley Traction company, Jp3s B. Hawley and F. G. Hou-: Hou-: ser ; Camas Prairie Hallway company, . Oeorge H. Smith and John L. Moran; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Charles i S. Albers and W. B. Warner; Caldwell I Traction company, Walter Sebree; !reat j Northern, Charles S. Alberts and H. A. Kim bail; Intermountain Railway company, com-pany, C. A. Barton; lwiston, Nez Perce Eastern. K. II. Heigho. W. K. Biiggs a nd S. K. Douglas; Northern Pacific, Coorge H. Smith and H. K. Still; Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation company, the Oregon Short Line Railroad comnany and Ogden, Logan & Idaho, George H. Smith and John S. Moran; Pa-riftc Pa-riftc & Idaho Northern, K. M. Heigho, W. K. Piiggs and S. K. Douglas; Spokane A- Inland Empire, Cnarles S. Albers and ! Waldo G. Favne; Spokane & Internatton-: Internatton-: al, F. E. Allen. j Th Craig Mountain Railway company, the Gilmore & Pittsburg, the VVishlngton. Idaho Montana Railway companies were not represented. H. V. Piatt, vice president presi-dent and general manager; F. H. Knickerbocker, Knick-erbocker, general superintendent; J. A. Repves, general freight agent ; J. B. Evans, general tax agent; Auditor Woods, R. c. Hinckley, superintendent of motive power, and other representatives of the Oregon Short Line railroad were present and testified. It was held by all witnesses for the railroads that the rapid increase In expenses ex-penses in all departments and for labor Justifies a reasonable freight rate in- crease. |