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Show MUCH WORK BEFORE RATES ARE EFFECTIVE While nothing deflnlte la known In rial! Lake City It would not surprls local railroad men If the varloua western roads ssh fur aa ntnasliss of llm- w baa- ths new rates ordered by the interstate commerce com-merce commission shall go Into effect. I A conference of representatives of practically prac-tically all of the western roads Is now in session In Chicago. Just how long this will last no one can tell, though It la expected ex-pected to lest , several days. Then will Some the work of adjusting ths rates on several hundred eommodltlee to various points In the west and northwest. Rsllroad men say thst this will sntall aa Immense amount of work. In discussing discuss-ing the matter C. 1. Tilttle, asslstsnt general gen-eral freight agent for the Oregon hort Line, said. . ,, . "While I have received no official Information. In-formation. It would not surprise me In the lesse to hear that the western roada had asked, for sn extension of the time in which to put Into effect the new rates. I nder the order of the commission ths new rate must be filed with thst body thirty days before they become effective. In this case this would mean thai the new schedule would have lo be Bled wltn the commleslon by October 1. "While I have not gone carefully Into the business 1 know that there will he a eaat smount of work necessary to make the many changes ordered by the commission. com-mission. As to whsther or not the roads ran do this before October It I do not know. If they find that It Is Impossible to do the work there will be nothing for It but to make aucb a ahowlng to the commission and ask for an exleneloe) of "a' the office of P. U Williams, general counsel for the Oregon Short Line. It wss stated that they had received no Information Infor-mation that 11 roads would ask for sn extension of time. Wsldemar an t otu one of the local attorneya for the Denver at Rio Grande, made a similar statement. |