OCR Text |
Show RATE CONFERENCES UNDERWAY AT BOISE BOISE. Jan. 2S Nearly 100 shippers, ship-pers, representatives of carriers, commercial com-mercial organisations and business men, were present at the opening session ses-sion of the hlpper-carreT-! conference, confer-ence, held at the Commercial cdub yes-1 terd.-y for the purpose of evolving plans which will result In the lowering of freight rates for this section The conference Is believed to be the most Important rate conference ever assembled in, the northwest. The wool rate schedule was attacked attack-ed by J. B. Campbell, representinfc the Spokane Chamber of Commerce and the Spokane Merchant's association. associ-ation. His argument was In favor of a hange In the present system, where the charge for the short haul exceeds that for the long haul. He showed where the chargo on wool from Portland, Port-land, Ore., to Boston, was $1.68, while from Spokane It was $2.50 and from Moscow 52.:6 Mr. Campbell urged co-operation between be-tween the carrier and the shippers toward an improvement of the present conditions. Ho recommended the Increase In-crease of rates on roads which are not earning tho n 'j per cent guaranteed and lowering of the rates on tlinse which are earning more than this. Efforts should bo made by shippers, he said, to see that the high wages paid railroad employes are reduced so rates can come down Th. ' arriers are represented at the meeting by r. W. Robinson, traffic manager of the Cnion Pa.-ific system; J. a. Reeves general freight agent of lie i iregon Short Line company. H. E. Lounsbury, general freight a?ent for ihe Oregon -Washington Railroad & Navigation company: General Frel h-Att'-rit Warner of the Milwaukee, H E Goodwin, assistant general freight agent of the Short Line: C. E. Arney, ol the Northern Pacific, and Joel l! Priest of tho Short LiQc.are also in at-1 at-1 pridanfae; 00 |