Show passengers ARE CHEAPER THAN CATTLE chicago sept 22 passenger service on the iowa central railroad as far as operating expenses are concerned costs the railroad company less than to handle cattle and other livestock shipments according to J M freight traffic manager of the manne apolla and st paul and the iowa central railroad companies mr titta gave the information today before federal judge 8 H bahea who is cabes of the intrastate com commission against railroad companies on of al leard bisci tu latex the late on Uc estock froni missouri tr P 0 o chato arp more just to the and alss chaa just to tho ali mot of tho vf ls at we cull pickup and out company must provide yards at a a great for tN 0 cattle it costs us recene and car for the livestock jhc thc alm for will we provide scales and hobe to pump wat e varda alth matena and build will w id and heat alike these ais about or each ald e are at some expense keching kec ping them up wo spent last year in maintaining our about piece on the iowa central and 70 apiece on tho other road our road jis added a million dollars in the northwest in the last year by our continuing m the livestock freight business our road has lost money I 1 believe the rat 6 on livestock Is too low if we did not handle livestock baines bu ines we could handle grain at a much higher rate per car and much better tor us by adhering to tho livestock busine fiB we have ha ve promoted a diversity of industries in iowa to tho sa benefit of the state iowa is a stock state and it Is better for the farmer to raise steers than to raise their value in produce the claims for damage against our road for other products are few only in the last several years on livestock the are very much bigger and quite frequent 1 |