Show SALT INDUSTRY TO BATTLE BAffLE FOR RATES Utah salt producers will fight tight for their existence at a a. hearing to be held before Examiner E. E R R. Disque of the interstate commerce commission in Salt Lake Monday Jobbers of Portland Portland Portland Port Port- I land Seattle and Tacoma have applied I Ifor for rates that will permit them to en enter enter en- en I en-I ter the local field with their product Cheaper rates are now sought to many points now served by the Utah manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers manu manu- many and if these are granted the Utah men will be hit hard To offset the application of the Northern men H H. W W. of ot the traffic service bureau of Utah will ask for determination of the reasonableness of the rates on salt from this territory to the the points into which the Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern North North- western men are endeavoring to gain access contends that if a lower rate is granted to the Northern mel mei to that territory a correspondingly corresponding corresponding- ly lower rate should be given to Utah producers He has just returned from Portland where a he hearing was held |