Show EXPRESS RATES CHANGED AGAIN on april express rates were increased between brigham and salt lake from 75 writs cents and 50 cents per hundred regular merchandise and general special to and 75 cents respectively ively and between brigham and ogden same classification from 50 cents and 40 cents to 90 cents and 68 cents this advance worked a hardship on local shippers and every item that could be handled by parcels post was transported by that means the cry ot of distress must have reached the ears of the railroad officials for on tuesday evening agent C 0 christensen at the 0 R T received a lettes from ane general superintendent advising that the express rate on general special matter had been hn agel back to 50 cents per hundred there Is quite a complex method of figuring express rates which ch the general public Is unacquainted with but under the old rates it was possible to send as much as 69 pounds from brigham to ogden for 33 35 cents according to the schedule when the advance was made this rate was increased considerable sid erable and the merchants stopped expressing goods now that the rate has been changed back to the old schedule on the 0 R T it la is again possible to send 69 pounds for or 35 cents the reason for the advance of local rates by the express companies Is undoubtedly doubt edIT to even up on the loss which they claim by reason of 0 the action of the interstate commerce commission in prescribing the limits which can be charged on all interstate business |