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Show EXPRESS COMPANIES TO COMPETE WITH ; THE PARCEL POST Traffic Manager of Wells-Fargo Wells-Fargo Announces That x Such Is Decision. sax ru.xt:iw:o, jd. r.-uir.t , comittitiun. patiotial iu sroiie, iH-twoca tho Well" r'arjjo xpres company and I the federal parcel post will yo into ( effect as soou as pinna which the cotn-' cotn-' liHuy has uecn niatitnug fur tl)- past ! rour years cau be set a t oot. Much was the etutcracnt mad. bur. tod by C. ! K. Orabani, traflic managi r uf the com- paoy, at a hearing t-cl'oro t lio stale railroad commission, i ,4Vy arc in coustaut commuuicutioa Iwith tb other express ronipanies," I said Mr. (.ruham, "and although thoy I bave not et sigDitied to u tbi-ir final jderixioo, wo bopo they will fall into lino. 1 I Competition, h explained, would ex j tend to lolh rates and services, with special rKar4 to sggs, butter, poultry and otber pcripbablc, food-ituffa, to be delivered direct from shipx-r to consignee, con-signee, thus eliminating tbe middleman middle-man s protits. i Lloven pounds would he the maniuium weight acceptable, as with the parcel post. Edward P. Ripley, prenident of the Santa V'e railroaa. was exicled lo pre. sent the' railroads ' side of the express rate questiou uow being looked into hv the eoininiinion later in the day. Hi had aiked to be beard. |