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Show JUSTICE 15 SOUGHT 1 101 FARMERS Proposed Increase in Potato Po-tato Rates Would Put Them Out of Business. Special to The Tribune. POCATELLO, Idaho, May 12. Idaho farmers, backed by the public utilities commission, do not purpose to permit the farmers of Minnesota, Wisconsin ajid Colorado to discriminate against them through increased rates on Idaho potatoes pota-toes to eastern markets, as proposed in the Dallas district freight committee's docket No. 4G6, of March 28, 1919. This docket proposes to raise the rates of Idaho potatoes to tho east to such an extent that Id alio shippers would be forced out of business on account of not being able to compete with the growers and shippers In Die states of Colorado, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Supporting the public utilities commission commis-sion of this" state in Us fight on the proposed pro-posed new rates from Idaho is the Interstate Inter-state commerce commission, which finds that the proposed increased rates for the : transportation of potatoes from Idaho. . Utah and Colorado to points in the south- west and south are not justified. While , the state of Colorado is mentioned as one ; of the states that would be discriminated ; against by the proposed increase, yet that ; state would have an advantage over Idaho, and this state would not be able ; even to compete with Colorado under the proposed new schedule. The public utilities commission has prepared pre-pared a brief in the case, in which the basis for the allegations is formed on the contention that the geographical location of Idaho, as compared with Wisconsin, Colorado and Minnesota, makes it impossible im-possible for Idaho to market its surplus potatoes in competition with these three states at rates proposed by the Dallas docket. Idaho cannot reach the Missouri Hver at a 6 11 -cent rate against that from Colorado of 43U cents and 29 cents from Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Idaho commission urges in its brief the maintenance of the differential of 4 cents to Texas points, and that the parity of rates prior to June 25, 1918, be maintained, and that the difference in rates between Minnesota and Wisconsin ana iciano snoiuu hul ckcu o lciuo, , from Idaho Falls not more than 10 cents j over Greeley, Colo. |