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Show NEVADANS ASK FOR REDUCTION OF RATES Charging that the freight rates on the Western Pacific branch line between V.en'Jover and Goldhiil are exorbitant, (ij.-ineps men and shippers of Goldhiil I u-h! a petition yesterday with the state i ,ijb!ic utilities commission asking that rates be reduced. The petitioners hold that the present rites operate to retard the progress in thai vicinity along all lines of industry. 'ten on barbed wire from Salt Lake to V.o-'d'jver. a distance of 350 miles, are t-jid to be Jilh cents a hundredweight, ;.i.(J the rate on the same material from V, r-nric'Vi-r to Goldhiil, a distance of leys in a fifty miles, is 47 cents a hun- ', utiiivpight i Jamf-h S. Fontjes. operating a stage -, i,( frnm Halt Lake to Vernal, asked for : .rniisFi'di to cut his passenger artes for I uund nips for ten days, in order to en-uura-'c humeseeUers to .go into the Uin-t.i Uin-t.i i !V(,!on. His request was granted. IJ-jiriiife' fn the petition of the Central : I H ut i: v company of Provo to increase i y.i rates ua.s set for September 9 at I ! i'mv't. Tin. Midland Telephone com-j com-j 'y pi-tition to increase rates will be : l-Li'l Ij.'ioru tlie commission at Moab on i A hcvinn will he heard today at I Trctnoiiir.i, on an application made by the i.iiaiii.iMty to increase the water rates. |