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Show KlII.KO.llll 1 TIIOUIII.i:, Tnoum.i: still continue among tho transcontinental railroads. Thu Union l'aclllo bat been orderod by the Commissioners Com-missioners of tho Wi stern Tralllo Association As-sociation to rtatoru ratcatojiolutfllii Montana lo what tiny were some lluio ago. It wilt dlsibey tho order, nnd leave thu association sooner than adopt a course which would only bonellt tbo notthern trunk lines. Iufaclthuat. toclatlon Is alrotdy virtually defunct, and II Is only u matter of time when lis dimlse will bo otllclally announced. Thu system of pooling which hat travailed for torao tlmu ajuung railroads rail-roads is lu a transition a late, and a new plan mutt toon lake Its' laru, Thu l'aclllo Mali Btiainihlp comrauy has bien aid annually formanyyojrsthu sum ot $830,000, for tho tolourpotu nf keeping up rates by laud. The Cal. Iforula people have omlomored to llberutu themselies from thu railroad thraldom which euvulod them. In Oe.toL.er, 1801, they organltid a Tralllo asaoclallon for the special pur-Hunf pur-Hunf fining Ihouisettcs. Arrange, ments wuru made with two lines of clipper ships to transport freight be-twnn be-twnn tho Atlantic nud Pacific. This H tho thin end of thu w edge, nnd now thu wholo fabrlo of railroad monopoly mon-opoly It on thu point of falling, If It hat not already fallen, to thu grouud, llislilrs, tho Tiliuantipeo railroad U now an allured fact. Thla mani another an-other route lo thu Pacific, nnd It will then bo almost Impossible to malutilnja trautcoiiltni ntil railroad monopoly. |