Show GRAIN FREIGHT I I RATES iI i I 1 i Conference e Between n Shippers Shippers Ship Ship- P Pi pers ers and Railroads Held HeldI I CHICAGO Aug 5 Freight 5 Freight rates on grain grain products and grain I byproducts from Chicago and the I Central Freight Freight association territory I to north Atlantic seaboard ports for tor export will be reduced 7 73 V cents a al I hundred pounds for a period expiring December De-cember 31 as a result of at conferences confer confer- I contor-I j between railway and shippers' shippers i representatives es It was announced toda today I The association Includes Mississippi and Onto Ohio river points mid avid the territory territory ter ter- ter- ter i between those rivers north to I the Great Lakes and east to Buffalo and Pittsburg I IThe I The proposition of ot the carriers that the domestic rates on grain grain products and grain byproducts also be bo reduced 4 44 centa cents a hundred pounds from Chicago was discussed I I As to both the export and domestic rates the usual differentials arc are to tol 4 govern as between New York and other north Atlantic seaboard ports All of ot the reductions will affect the tho freight charge on shipments from points north and we west weRt t of ot Chicago o. I. I also west of t the Mississippi river I The present and proposed carload carland rates In cents a hundred pounds from Chicago o to New York follow tollow i 1 Export Domestic I Pros Pros- ProsPro Pro- Pro Pres- Pres Pro- Pro ent posed ent enl posed Grain 30 22 2214 34 34 30 i Grain products 32 24 24 35 30 Flour 31 23 28 Grain byproducts 34 26 37 31 32 I |