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Show Canada Increases Railroad Rates. Ottawa. -Conforming to the action of the director general of the United States railroad administration ordering order-ing United States carriers to increase transcontinental westbound commodity rates from the eastern states to coast noints. the dominion railway board has authorized a similar increase in Canadian rates, effective August 1. Canadian railways are authorized to increase rates so as to place them on at least an equality with the rates now in effect from the neighboring states. |