Show RAILROAD NOTES G. G K Smith chief clerk to W. W H. H Bancroft Ban Ban- Bancroft croft has gone north on a 0 short business business busi busi- ness neBS trip The rho big electric flag that hung at nt the head of ot Main street during the O. O A A. R. R convention last August hn has be been n purchased purchased pur pur- ch chased U by the Lagoon p people and was WM shipped to the tho resort today A vigorous defense of ot the the- present freight rates and find a prediction n as to what will 1 be bo the tho effect of ot the proposed amendment amend amend- meat ment to lh the interstate commerce law was made mado in San Ban Francisco a few fow days clays ago by E. E P. P IU pI cY president of or tho the Santa lInt I Fo Fe Fo according I to San Francisco p papers p received In this city President Ripley Is 18 e quoted as IlI saying The rate from New York to Los Ang Angeles Angeles An An- g geles les is lower loner than the rate from New Ne' NewYork York lork to San Francisco In ord order r to meet tho the water competition Tho The effect Is to allow LOB JAB Angeles s to do a n Jobbing bu business business busi busi- l- l ness Into the Interior because of ot Its location lo location lo- lo cation by tide water Eliminate this condition con con- and the railroads railroad would find It Impo Impossible to make mako Pacific coast terminal nal rates rate and the jobbing business of ot the tho Pacific coast would be he reduced to practically lly nothing Railroad freight rates aro are no not of ot n nearly arly a. a as much importance Importance Importance tance ns ae is believed pd by the Average citizen citizen citi citi- zen If It these rates were ero r raised 25 S to toCO CO 50 0 per cent tho ultimate consumer would not know If It the tho so called experts hired b by tho the cities to find fault ault with tho the railroads rAil rail- roads and the newspapers newspaper would keep still A pair of shoes in Los Angeles Angelea do donot donot fl g n not cost t the tho user r more t than 60 50 cents more o than In III Chicago and of oC that increased c cost coat l about shout 2 cents represents the cost coat of ot transporting the tho pair of ot shoes across the continent If It the Jobber or the tho merchant Imposes a tax of ot 50 SO cents on the tho consumer consumer con con- sumer to pay poY a a. S-c S cent 2 nt freight rate thatIs that thatIs Is not the fault of ot tho the railroads railroad The Th Joys of ot outdoor life me In the Rocky mountains are aro pictured and d described In Ina Ina a now booklet h led er by tho tim pa no department of oC tho the D Denver n ti Rio Rio Gra Grande Grando railroad entitled Camping In the tho Thet r t rod Ion by i Ct Et about places to o a 0 01 tackle to be u us f I suggestions Vacation an nn outdoor 7 Itha he i e by some som estimates 2 tJ td cost of ot outing tours In la the tho tain talus The Tho cover in ht Roo C camping scone acono In the RO kli |