Show I REDUCED RATES RATS mm EXPECTED IN NEAR NAR fUTURE Recent Decision of Interstate Interstate Inter Inter- state st state te Commerce Commission Commission Commission Commis Commis- sion Will Affect Utah Salt Lake Jake Cit City a and d al all oth shipping shipping ship ship- pin ping points will b materially affected in freight rat rates s as a a. result of a recent decision of the interstate commerce com cons reduction in mission There will be a a. freight rates on many man classes of goods but hut just what this reduction will wil amount to I cannot state at the present pres pres- ent cut time This was the statement made this morning to n a representative e of THE TELEGRAM by bJ Theodore Brent assistant assist assist- ant to Vice President W. W B. B Biddle of the ho Rock Island route Mr Brent has hag been been in this city for two days dap quietly looking lookIng- over the local situation as far faras faras faras as the business of his isis road is concerned in this part of the country countr Tonight he will Wi leave for Los 1015 Angeles from where he will go fo to San Francisco and then return retura direct to Chicago where lie he will of offiCErs officers attend an important meeting meeting- cers of the Rock Kock Island Islan next Dext week In speaking of freight rates to Utah points Mr lr Brent said paid that there thre had been ben many man complaints on the part of shippers on account of alleged nation The decision of the commission commission commis commis- sion fion in the Spokane case cannot h help lp but have e its effect on all ail of the intermountain intermountain in in- country said paid he be There is IS one thin thing however that the public and the shippers should remember and that is that it is not possible to real read for such a large larg-e part of the tIle countr country in iii a few hours or a few days I think that I am safe lIaCe in saying that practically all of the bl big roads which do business in the west have ha got ot their rate clerks at work at the present time I on a new schedule Work Is Complicated I This is an immense work ork ing as it does lees several c thousand shipping points Joints and several se hundred d different i erent kinds of frei freight ht Tt It is a work that no noone noone noone one outside of those e who have ha been engaged in it can call full fully comprehend and anda a work that will take some time Even Enn after the rats rates rat s are fixed bv by bythe the rate clerks they will have haya to be he submitted to the officers of the various va Ya- va- va rious com companies lanies after which thirty y days' days notice will have ha to be given to the interstate commerce commission before before be be- fore they can go into effect I am run of opinion that the new DeW rates will be I made public within the next sixty days a and d that they will go into effect in about ninety days das Mr fr Brent was asked aske l as to how much the reduction mi might ht amount to but was not in a position to answer I understand un that in some cases the reduction reduction reduction tion will be in the neighborhood of 1 15 per cent to Spokane and I would say sav that a corresponding reduction would be made to this and other cities in the intermountain country Mr Brent stated that with the completion com corn of the Panama canal there could not help but be further reductions on the part of the railroad companies which do a a. transcontinental business as it will be possible to ship goods much cheaper bv by the water route than at present and the railroads would be compelled to make mak reductions |