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Show on ! POTATO RATE CUT TO EAST DELAYED The freight rates on early potatoes, from ji.dnts in Utah and Idaho n the 1 iregon Short Line, Will not be reduced until other roads operating east from, Utah and Colorado points reduce to the same levels, according to an an- nouncemant made Wednesday by the freight officials of the I'nlon Pacific railroad. Tim reduction asked for :'0 rents a hundred pounds and the reduction allowed would le practically 14 cents a hundred pounds. An apnlicatlqn has been filed by Colorado shippers similar sim-ilar to that filed by the Idaho ahlp-pers, ahlp-pers, It Is understood that the rate are being mado for an emergency and wli; expire about September 30. j |