Show r RAILS AILS IN IDAHO ASK AS TO KEEP UP PRESENT RA RATES TES in South Part of Carriers Corner State Seek to Maintain Higher Charges i 8 Br At Press lrus IM I'M Carriers 29 erIng ervIne erv- erv I CHICAGO Apr April Idaho grain areas peti- peti jag Ine southern comb com- com Interstate commerce A the ik b to leave in effect erred the today and Seattle Portland rates t to to t ex wB g tariffs average from 20 to to-M to 25 These c e er hIgher than the scale ordered per r cent last August b by the commiss commis effective dint thrown out bythe by byth Tb This scale ale was lion ion court rt granting the cart car t the th S Ife supreme a new ney hearing co In in the year old tight t of grain gran growers and shippers to ates to lower the differential Under rates les t most southern Idaho points between p Portland and Seattle Is la 3 cents and flavor favor of Portland The commis commis- in L order der lowered the differential gl sign slon to 2 cents a American Falls Is one of the prime P points The present rate to portland is is 44 H cents to Seattle 47 cents the difference In in miles mUes 87 The Emission commission set et the rate to Portland at 34 cents cento to Seattle 36 cents Maintaining Main Main- tuning taming existing rates thus raising the Intermountain scales of the defunct commission mission commission order would tend to bring more grain into the Omaha Kansas City and other western mar mar- went vent down I formerly els- els that into California California has always always always al al- al- al ways been the prime prime- prime market for tor southern Idaho growers Testimony on rates from Oregon points to Portland was held over b by Examiners Mackley and Hall at request request reI re re- I quest of shippers and carriers to the hearing in Seattle This hearing and one in Los Angeles An- An reles geles will follow tollow the Kansas City ses- ses I zion lion After the west coast hearings the the examiners expect to swing back 1 to Fort Worth and Minneapolis Gentry Waldo of Omaha freight traffic executive of the Union Pacific lines who presented the Idaho carnets carnets' carriers carriers' car car- nets nets' proposals offered an exhibit for transcontinental grain traffic in which the railroads also petitioned I the the commission to maintain existing rates t |