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Show RAILROAD RATES AGAINST OGDEN. Those engaged in the packing house industry, in Ogden claim they are seriously handicapped b3r the discriminatory railroad rates on livestock as compared with the low rate on dressed meats and other products, which apply to this region. Here are a few figures on railroad rates as applied to livo hogs: From Kearney, Nebraska, to Portland, Oregon, a distance of 1572 miles, the rate is 85 cents per hundred pounds. From Kearney, Nebraska, to Ogden, a distance of 804 miles, the rate is SI cents per hundred pounds. Iu other words, hogs hauled through Ogden and on to Portland, Oregon, from Nebraska points', nearly double the distance from the same points to Ogden, carry within 4 cents of the rate to Ogden. On the dressed meats and packing house products the rate from Omaha to Ogden, 1,000 miles, is $1.06. From Ogden to Rock Springs, only one-tenth the distance, the rate is 65 cents, and ,to Twin Falls, 252 miles, the rate is 85 cents. , Denver can ship its packing house products to Ogden a distance dis-tance of 591 miles, for 20 cents less a hundred pounds than the cost of transportation on the same products from here to Twin Falls. No city, with railroad rates so completely and unreasonably blocking block-ing its progress, can hope to develop to any great proportions, unless there shall come a reform and railroad rates be placod on a more equable basis than at present. . i . |