Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-05-18 | Page 5 | Idaho to Save Freight Costs

IDAHO TO SAVE I FREIGHT COSTS Stock Raisers IIo Hope e to Cut Yearly Charges By BOISE DOISE Idaho May n By li ByTh The Tho Associated d Recent Press Press adjustments made in southern Idaho livestock rates by the In- In Int In Interstate t te commerce commission will save sado southern Idaho shippers In one year ear according Co 0 a L study got o o the order made pUblic by Samuel 1 L Newton rate expert of ot the public utilities com com- commission com com- commission commission mission If lC all the shipments Misled listed had gone one to Omaha the th saving ing would be und under r the new rates It IC all had gone cone to Portland the total saYin saving would have been 1 As actually shipped 2 25 per Ier percent cent Ot of the cattle went to to- to Omaha where the saving would be no- no 10 85 Seventy seven per cent ot of the sheep went rent to Omaha a sav- sav savin say Inc sav-Inc in log of oC Portland r 38 per cent cent of oC the cattle a 0 sav- sav sain saving sav lne ing in of oC the saving ravine on the four tour per cent of oC sheep which rent ent to Portland would be bo 3 3 3 2 Two per cent of oC the hogs shipped In ln decks cars to Portland would result In a sn easing ing- ing of oC while 10 80 pet per per cent more shipped In single deck cars cars would net a 0 sating sa savin of oC