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Show RAILROADS (BE GIVES ill OCT. It TO FILE BRIEFS Salt Lake. July li. Setting October 16 as the final date for the filing of briefs h carriers. Commissioner H. C. Hall of the mter-tate commerce commission announced thai the rat hearing, which has been In eupjon here sine- Monday morning, was r.-n-eluded Commissioner Hall granted thf carriers until September 15 to file1 their briefs the proteslants until October Oc-tober 8 to file their answering briefs.! and the carriers until October 16 to file the,r final briefs Argument will! be "ial and w ill be held as soon after I October 15 as Ihe commission can arrange ar-range The majority of the railroad representatives and traffic men who have been attending the hearing left for their honieR yesternay afternoon rinrliifr ihc Qosuinn ttprd" morn- Inc representatives of 'oral mercantile j establishments. Including George T Odell. general manager pi the Consolidated Consoli-dated Wagon Machine company; I Joseph H Patrick, treasure- of the Decker Patrick company, and E J Sard ley of the 55. C M I . were calleJ to testify as to what the proposed tt-i tt-i creasp In ratps would neap ffl tne consumer What Consumer Would Pay Mr Odell said that his corapanv brings into Utah temror 1000 to 1600 carloads of implement? and oilier commodities com-modities annual) and tb.at the now rates would mean an additional expenditure ex-penditure of from SIS 1 tin J?0 onn each yeT for freight charges. This amount, he declared, would be paid by the consumers, as the prices on the implements would be raised in propor tion to the freight charges Mr Pntrlck testified a to the n'im ber of cars of merchandise received annually bj his company, the averse value of each shipment and the per cent of Increase that usually arises be, tween the iohber and the consumer It was brought out in an alde remark re-mark that the ir.e eased cost of a pair of men's hose, if the freight rate Is increased 2." cents a hundred pounds will be foiu one-tnousandths of a cer.t Mr. Eardley said that hU firm ship-pod ship-pod eleven cars of cotton piece goods, eleven car.- of underwear and hoslerv and eicht tars of rubber boots and shoes last ear. and informed the commission com-mission that the p ices charged for the goods were based on carload lots W S McCarthy of the Traffic Bureau Bur-eau of Utah formerlv secretary of the ( ommerclal club traffic bureau took the stand and related his version of the history of the rate conference in Chicago He told of the schedules agreed uuon which were to be submit ted to tne interstate commerce commission com-mission for approval Mr. McCarthy said that the Oregon Short Line promptly lulfilied the agreement It made, but that other Hne3 concerned did not live up to the terms of agreement. agree-ment. Martin Van Presv n f Chicago, representing rep-resenting the Wholesale Orocors association as-sociation of Chicago, submitted figures fig-ures and statistieo snoDortin" conten tions he made on behalf of f'hicago shippers earlier in the hearing D R Lincoln, assistant general freight agent for the Missouri Pacific, was called b the carriers and sub mitted a tabulation Of the number of cars of commodities brought to Utah points. The protestants objecttJ to the admission of the document inles it included a complete lis of all the tonnage for all 1'tah common points The railroad representatives contended contend-ed that the task of compiling such a statement would be 100 great and the j exhibit was withdrawn. W. A Poteet chairman of the Trans-Missouri Trans-Missouri Freight bureau, was recalled 10 amplifv some of his earlier testi j mony. and the case was closed and 1 the hearing adjourneJ 1 00- |