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Show WILL HELP MANUFACTORIES. Whatever effect the ordered freight rate reductions may have -r. on the wholesale interests of Ogden, there is .litUe -doubt 'but that; fcood trill result tothe manuf octunng -industries' of this 'and' ' other" cities of the interm'ountain country. Since Jhe flrstrate card was - ' Issued 'with "the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, the interior points have been discriminated ag-ainst to the advantage ' 'of the" large m&hufacturing centers, such as San Francisco, on the coast. With a just application of freight rates. Ogden might become a larger manufacturing place. In the past, local manufactories have been forced to struggle against freight rates which made it quit impossible to compete with the outside. Raw materials, imported from the East, were given almost prohibitive rates, and the finished! products have been held within a closely circumscribed market. The promise is that this xtreme discrimination has been eliminated and that from now on dating October 1 the industries of Ogden and other cities similarly situated will be allowed to develop without tho inflicting of arbitrary and unjustifiable restraints in the form of unfair freight rates. |