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Show OO 1 COMPLAINS OF I LUMBER RATES Charges From Northwest to Chicago Declared Still Excessive WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. Lumber I rates from the north Pacific coast to eastern consuming centers are still above proper levels. A. C. Dixon, appearing ap-pearing for the West Coast Lumber- ' men's association, declared today. In the Interstate commerce commission rate Inquiry. In December, 1921, he said, mill price of fir lumber In Oregon ranged around $17.75 per thousand feet, while tho freight rato on the product to Chicago was $18.98. leaving 62 per cent of the delivered price as the coBt of transportation and 48 per cent as the cost of tho product itself. These percentages, ho said, were i greater for the railroads than they I were in previous months when the j freight charge was larger, but the mill I price of lumber wus higher. As a result. Mr. Dixon said, railroad returns from the product of 176 lum- I ber mills shipped over their lines had ' been 16 per cent less during 1921 than they were in the period prior to r 1 1 Increases in 1920 because of tho fall - , ing off in production. Ocean freight ! rates had already dropped far enough to secure a great part of tho business from the Pacific coast, ho said, and , "showed signs of further Yielding " |