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Show BEGIN HEARINGS ON BULLION SHIPMENT salt LAKE t 'ITY, IPeh. !. Examiner Ex-aminer Bshelman, of tl- interstate eommlpslon, began a hearing here today to-day regarding the rate on bullion shipments from I 'tali iyid Nevada to San Francisco Via the Western Pacific Pa-cific railroad for trans-shipment oaS! trough the Panama '-anal. The Western Pacifh recently declared de-clared a rate of ?G.& a ton on bullion from Utah to San Francisco. The commission suspended the rat-? and called the hearing here to determine 1 the wisdom of the establishment of such a tariff. It is estimated that 100.000 ions; of bullion ar bundled each year and I a rate such as the Western Pacific proposes will, it is contended permit I many small mining companies to get I their bullion to market nt a profit I Whloli cannot be done under present conditions. |