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Show oo S. P. CUTS RATE ON COFFEE TO UTAH The Southern Ticiflc railroad toady to-ady announced reduclion of a domestic domes-tic rate to 90 cents a 100 pound?, minimum weight -10 0QO pounds, in lieu of the present wte of $1.02, minimum weight ',0,000, on green coffee from San Francisco and Oakland Oak-land to Ogden and Salt Dake. This results in the application f the same rate on domestic green cof-' fee shipments from San Francisco and Oakland as import coffee shipments ship-ments end Is designated to enable I tah merchants to secure green coffee cof-fee from San Francisco and Oakland Oak-land warehouses Instead of arranging arrang-ing for direct importation. In addition a domestic rate of ?1 1" a 100 pounds, minimum weight SC 0 pounds is to be announced shortly In lieu of the present rate of $1,245 on roasted coffee from San Francisco and Oakland to Ogden and Salt Lake and other Utah points This is a voluntary reduction on the part of the carriers, Wlllard G. Wilson, Wil-son, S. P. traveling agent, said. |