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Show MS FIGHT wf Sits Wyoming Coal Operators Declared De-clared They Are Virtually Barred From State ! WASHINGTON. Pec 13. Hearings on the refusal of the r.i lway commissions com-missions of seven state. to permit rall-rotds rall-rotds to Increase Intrastato freight and passenger rates to the si m- level as interstate rates were begun lodu;. by th'- Interstate commerce , oinmls-slon. oinmls-slon. The states urc Ohio, Illinois, Indiana. Michigan, Nebraska. Utah and Florida. The I 'tab case was the first taken up. J. G Mcllurrey, counsel for the railroads, told the commission that 1 the failure to Increase passenger rates In Utah beyond th 3 cents j.er mile schedule already had resulted in a ! 2. 000. 000 loss under the 6 per cent I return guaranteed to the roads b ! the transportation act. Mr. McMurruy also said that the failure to raise eo il nnd ore rates had recoiled n i lie Iri i 1 1 barrlnR I from Utah of the products of Wyom-I Wyom-I Ing mines which, he said, had been In active competition with 1'tah mines I for many yean The W yoming op- eratore, Mr. Mclfurray said, were ' forced to pa a higher freight rate ! on their products and that as a re-; re-; suit the t'tah operators could ell cheaper. H. W. I'rlckett, appealing In behalf be-half of the Salt Lake City chumher of mniniiTi i', presented data Intended to show that nn freight rate increase I would destroy the mining Interests : of I'lah. |