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Show OGDEN WILL BE MUCH BENEFITED Rates on fresh meats nnd packing 'H Louse products have bpen reduced by the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific Pa-cific from Utah points The saving uu oVr the new schedule will be $136 a car on fresh meats and $103 25 on the average car of parking bouse prod- H This reduction will help to make Ogden a more Important, packing house and livestock market. From now on a greater flow of packing house products should begin to reach the Pacific coast, including the San Francisco Fran-cisco and Los Angeles markets, with e combined population in that, territory terri-tory of 2,000,000 people. With the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific offering extraordinary extraordi-nary inducements In order to obtain the business, the Union Pacific, Oregon Ore-gon Short Line and Rio Grande will be forced to put in effect lower rates to the east, or see much of their traffic traf-fic in livestock diverted westward For years our packers and others Interested have been fighting for better bet-ter and more erjultable rates on their products in order to be able to enter the markets of the country generally They had met with little encouragement encourage-ment up to the present Now they are looking forward to rapid develop ' j jnentfl, possibilities of a quick expansion In the livestock and packing house Industries in this district. This Is a signal victory for Ogden end tributary territory, and undoubt edly comes from the play of mighty forces which are toda struggling for mastery in the railroad wurld HlBlI oo |