Show FREIGHT M RATES ARE A R E TO T 0 BE B E ASID EIGHTY ARTICLES WESTBOUND AND TWENTY EASTBOUND trans transcontinental continental railroads hope to be able to make change by january 1 chicago sept 30 by tho the first of january the transcontinental trans continental railroads hope to be able to increase freight rates on more than eighty commodities modi ties westbound and on about twenty commodities east bast bound between all points and the pacific coast conferences are being held frequently and traffic men admit that all of the commodities are being gone over with a view to making increases where possible and equitable the proposed pro posea increases re ases if they become effective will gefrom be arom every territory east of the missouri river to the pacific coast and will average between five and eight per cent above the present rates the changes under consideration include agricultural implements beer bananas drugs locomotives railway supplies ol oil matting and rugs ton ten cents per pounds clothing and hardware fifteen cents per pounds iron and steel articles cement steel rails and liquors five cents per hundred the proposed increases east cast bound from the pacific PacI coast to the territory of the mississippi river ronge range about the same tut but there are less than one quarter of the number of commodities affected among them are fish dried and salted machinery and hides ten cent sper hundred and soap five cents per hundred |