Show FIGHT r RATE INCREASE Protests Heard by L I. I G C. C C C. C at Denver I IE DENyER ER Colo Cob Nov lov 12 CAP CAP- AP Warnings that hat t at the lettuce and cann can- can loupe gr industries of Cob Colo- n aCl would t b be exterminated by a aper 5 per cent raise in freight rates and nd a a charge that Utah fruit growers growers grow- grow ers rs are are discriminated against under freight rates were made at tt ata ata tta a hearing here yesterday before an examiner of or the Interstate Commerce Com Corn merce commission Agricultural interests continued to o oppose in vigorous terms the proposal pro pro- pOal of seven fifty-seven western rail rail- roads oads to Increase their freight rates by 5 per cent G G. G W W. of Buena Vista Colo Cob head of the Colorado Cooperative Cooperative op Co Lettuce Growers Growers' tion ion that farmers received receive a profit of only 10 cents a crate on their lettuce while the railroads get 75 cents per per crate for freight P. P P. P Edwards manager o of the American Fruit Growers' Growers association association tion ion of Rocky Ford said that can- can growers of or the state re received received re- re a total of for their crops In 1924 while the railroads received in freight D D. D C C. C Foubert manager of the Merchants 1 and Manufacturers Manufacturers' Traffic Bur Bureau au of Salt Lake City Utah declared that fruit growers of the far northwest could reach eastern castern markets With their products products prod prod- at a lower freight th than n Utah fruit growers despite a considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able di difference terence in Inthe the distance j of |