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Show REEVES HOLDS NEW RATES BENEFICIAL "The benefit to a territory of hig r incoming freight rates and low outgoing out-going freight rates, such as the railroads rail-roads propose on commodities Into Salt Lake under the new schedule, is thai local manufacturers are protect ed from the outsiders, who otherwise would be able to ship In and undersell them. Then the low outgoing rates make it possible for Utah manuiactur-ers manuiactur-ers to widen their territory and build up their industries " This statement was made by J A. Reeves, general freight agent of the Oregon Short Line, in discussing a recent attack upon the new rates agreed upon at the Denver conference of tran?-Mlssouri railroad representa-tle6 representa-tle6 Mr. Reeves says that the higher high-er incoming rates will be a benefit to Utah and that only a few jobbing firms are opposed to them, because they wish to buy their goods in the east and then sell them at a profit in the intermountaln territory. In discussing the statement made that low Incoming rates have pro duced prosperity In Salt Lake and solved the unemployed problem, Mr. Reeves says that freight rates have nothing to do with this problem. He declares that if low incoming rates produced more work, California sbouid have no unemployed problem, for California Cali-fornia incoming rates are lower than those of any state In the west. |