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Show Lower Rates Secured On Turkey Shipments After a three year fight, the Northwestern Turkey Cooperative has won an interstate commerce commission decision lowering the minimum car weight from 24,000 to 20,000 pounds and reducing the transcontinental freight rate on dressed poultry from Springville to New York by about 38 cents per 100 pounds. Holding the rates were unreasonable unrea-sonable for the future but not for the past, the commission refused reparations but. extended the class rates westward to bring about reductions re-ductions averaging 50 cents per hundred pounds in the four states involved. The saving to turkey men alone will amount to $30,000 to $40,000 a year. In the Springville district, the present rate is $3.00 per hundred while the estimated new rate is $2.61, making a saving of about 38 cents. Estimated reductions on 100 pound shipments of dressed poultry poul-try from other important Utah turkey growing districts are : American Fork, 39c; Brigham City, 42; Charleston, 35; Ephraim, 30c; Manti, 29 c; Moroni, 29c; Ogden, 39c; Pay-son, Pay-son, 36c; Richfield, 24. He; Salt Lake City, 36c; Thompson, 56c, and Tremonton, 41. |