Show COAST PR PROTESTS TESTS COPPER RATE CUT Au Auf Aug 23 The proposed lowering of eastbound rail rates on copper from Utah and other Intermountain states states are protested by San Fran Francisco co com com- co ri according to all advices vIces received by tao inc Interstate commerce commission The pro pro- proposed proposed pro proposed posed rates will become e August 25 26 It If not Dot prevented by the The San Francisco Interests charge that the proposed rates are not compensatory within the mean mean- meanIng meaning Ing of ot the Interstate commerce law and further allege allec that these rates will Ill operate to compel nU- nU rall aU-rall rail shipment ot of copper to the east supplanting present ship ship- shipments shipments ments mente by rail to the Pacific coast and thence east by the Panama ca- ca canal canai ca canal nal nai Similar protests were earlier riled filed by the Tacoma Wash 1 cham chain chamber chamber ber of ot commerce but the tho Tacoma protest has been withdrawn n Tile The Interstate commerce Slon comm slon Is Isnow Isnow Isnow now consIdering the protests protest and by or before the nih will III mIne whether or not to the proposed reductions lons SALT LAKE Aug Auf 23 A A G C Macken le secretary ot of the th Utah chapter ot of o the American Mining last night characterized the tho protest as a plain act of at hoe hos hostility against the th Interests of at this territory and expressed the be- be belief be lie lief that shipping Interests were o e In objecting to n a rate rat would cause caus bullion to move di- di direct direct di direct to the Atlantic Atlantie seaboard by rail Instead ot of beIng shIpped to Sm San Francisco and through the Panama can canal at |