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Show - New Market , For Sugar Refineries ),, ! I Washington, Aug. 26. Far western wes-tern BUgar refiners won a victory over their competitors In New fir-leans fir-leans and Now York today, when the interstate 'commerce commission approved ap-proved the establishment of new rates on sugar from California producing pro-ducing points to Chicago and the territory east of the Missouri river which It Is believed, will open these narkcta to tho western product. it was shown by western refiners und carriers that seven Western stated , produced last year boet sugar and refined Hawaiian cano' BUgar totaling 853,600 tons or'cnoligh'to supply '-0,-000,000 persons, whllo the population of thoso Btates Is but 6,825,821. Tho now rate Is llxed at 25 cents per hundred pounds higher than tho Now Orleans rate to Chicago rate territory and 23 cents higher than the new Orleans rato to points east of the Missouri river. Ouo offect, according to tho rofln ors application, will be to divert to San Francisco refineries much of tho Hawaiian sugar now carried to New York by way of tho Tehuantepec rail road. Tho commission Issued also a group of orders designed to correct Intermediate Inter-mediate rates in territory west of the Missouri river In conformity with the new throMgh rato. . |