| Show f BATES RATES RESTORED or adens business men of late have been laboring under heavy disadvantages among them es specially ally was the high tariff of freight northward over tho the utah northern R R for two years our merchants have eo so to speak been almost shut out from the idaho idabo and montana market markets as imports from amaba and farther aas east t would be carried northward past our very doors cheaper or at lea least A no dearer than our traders could ship them hence to their customers in the north this condition of things for the last two years has seriously cramped our commercial apers aliens our farmers have suffered still more painfully from it as the prod produce tice of their fields orchards aids and gardens was excluded from profitable market with about aa its inexorable a and eve ivere shirt out from the garden of eden the whole has resulted reul ted in a general depree depression sion extruding through all the social and commercial etrata of our community and contributing it in caus ilig the deplorable dull dullness nesi of if lairs aff at lat last however there is hope fir for a t improvement in ahw th si situation 1 aaion this morning thu the U ILP UP IL P officials to our and other business men that from may the freight 0 rates on the U N are restored to what they were before the sudden raise in tho the spring of 1882 thus for instance the following rates are established to blackfoot class former present Is t 05 2nd and 95 3rd ard 85 ath 85 again to dillon the rates are class former present ast 1st 2nd and 3rd ard ath of course the different intermediate rates are in proportion this reduction amounting to from 33 per cent to 45 per cent makes our leading firms feel as if a heavy nightmare had been taken off their brea breasts ats but it will benefit all business in various degrees and meas urea ures and will not be long in bein being 9 felt all through 11 the community by a revival of is old time prosperity and progress and a reawakening of all the latent and dormant energies ii of our town so rich in resources only awaiting to be developed |
