Millard County Chronicle | 1912-08-29 | Page 5 | Want Lower Freight Rates.

WANT LOWER FREIGHT RATES. Delegates to Transmlsslsslppl Com-' Com-' mercial Corgress Believe Lower Rates Necessary to Prcgress. ! Salt Lake City. Of the many stria-J stria-J lug feature that testified to the great work and purisise of the Tratismis-, Tratismis-, sisslppl Commercial congress nt the j opeu i.g Muslim of Its twenty-third an-i an-i ntial convention hern Tuesday, pro!- ably none Is of more Importance than the Introduction of a resolution by Judge K. A. Helm of Wichita, Kan., couipieliendlng lower freight rates a Imperative to the progress and development devel-opment of the twenty-two slates west Of tliO Mississippi. A movement urging the government to utilize the machinery now In use at the Panama canal to Improve the channel chan-nel of the Mississippi river for the drainage rec'amatlon of vast areas ot swamp lands bordering on that gteut waterway; also a proposal that the federal congrem be asked to appropriate appro-priate $.',oiiii,oiiu toward the Paiinnnt-Pacific Paiinnnt-Pacific International exposition of 191 at San Francisco, formed important features. A Irag" numlxT of other vital factors fac-tors or proposed moves In the Interest if western development were disclosed dis-closed either In the form of resolution! or In addresses.