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Show scrap, 10 cents. The westbound rato on mineral waters were restored to 75 cents, a reduction of 10 cents, on account ac-count of competition from Japan. Canned Can-ned goods wo&tbound from Colorado' were reduced from SO to 85 cents; ma-i ma-i chlnery from Colorado to California : from 1.50 to S1.40; and on bides east-bound, east-bound, an allowance of three cents per j hundred for shrinkage in weight was agreed upon. REDUCTIONS IU FKEISHT RATES IMPORTANT THEY AFFECT BOTH EASTBOUND AND WESTBOUND TRAFFIC. Shippers in California and On the Coast More Affected Than in Eastern Territory. '. Chicago, Feb. 27. Important reductions reduc-tions from the new schedules of transcontinental trans-continental freight rates, which went I into effect January 1, and which have I aroused the active opposition of shin-I shin-I pers from the Atlantic to the PaclUc, 1 have been agreed upon by the rall-j rall-j roads and will he made effective as I soon as the amended tariffs can bo tiled with the Interstate commerco I commission. These concessions are, I in most cases, a restoration of tho old ' ratos In effect before tho first of tho year, and amount to from three to twenty-five per cent on large numbers of the commodities. The increases made on January 1, j and the reductions announced, affect ; both eastbound and westbound rates. Shippers in California and on tho coast were more affected than tbe eastern territory. Some of the principal reductions reduc-tions are of especial Interest to Chicago Chi-cago and the central states. ! ' Oil rates were restored to ninety J cents per hundred pounds, a reduction j of ten cents. The rates were raised . from 78 12 to 00 cents within the last year. j ' Included lu the westbound commo-I commo-I dltles on which the old rates were re-: re-: etored are wagons and vehicles, a reduction re-duction of 10 cents; agricultural lm-,tlement3, lm-,tlement3, 10 cents; beer, 10 cents; , cottonseed oil, 10 cents; wire fencing. 1 from Chicago, 20 cents, from Fast of Chicago, 10 cents; flaxseed, 5 cents; linseed oil, 5 cents; wheel aud drag $crai;eit5, 10 cents from Chicago and points west; pig. iron, from $13 20 to $1U ror ton; pipe fittings and connections, con-nections, 35 conts; radiators, 40 cents. Anions the tas: bound rates reduced are those on cocoanut oil, 5 cents; deciduous fruits, 1.5 cents to Cincinnati Cincin-nati nnd central freight association territory; leather, 10 cents; aud tin " " |