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Show OGDEN A BENEFICIARY. That the Spokane rate case decision decis-ion Is of great importance to Ogden is made evident by the fact that in a similar case now pending before the Interstate Commerce commission, in which the complainants are the merch- ints of Reno, Nevada, the Jobbing houses of San Francisco and Los An-Eeles An-Eeles intervened in behalf of the railroads rail-roads to oppose the contention of the Reno merchants, claiming that, it Reno were granted terminal rates, other interior cities would make a similar sim-ilar claim and thus the jobbing houses cf the coast cities would suffer. Ogden jobbers are awaiting with much interest the receipt of the tull text of the decision, for It may prove of vast advantage to Ogden. A Salt Lake business man, a student stu-dent of these rate issues, told a local banker that in his opinion the Spokane decision, when made to apply to this section, will add materially to the importance im-portance of Ogden as a jobbing and clstributing center and tend to ma terlally Increase Ogden's prosperity. Local jobbers have been handicapped handicap-ped when they sought to extend their trade to those fields now held by the coast cities. For instance, in Nevada they found they were discriminated against in favor of San Francisco and Los Angeles, the freight charges to Ogden being n many cases equal to the freight rate to San Francisco, with a local rate back added. Now if Ogden, Og-den, with the broad enforcement enforce-ment of the Spokane decision, is to receive , freight rates cpproximately proportional on a mileage mile-age basis to those charged San Francisco, Fran-cisco, the jobbers of Ogden will be able to not only invade the western Nevada territory, but they will make the San Francisco wholesalers do bus- i iness on a fair margin of profit or lorce them ojit of the field. The full tei of the Spokane rate case decision will be published in thu paper aaj'soon as it is received from Washington. |