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Show MERCHANfSAEK,:5t-:i ON- FREIGHT ; RATES' Consensus of Opinion is That Reductions Ordered by Interstate Commerce Commission Will Help the Intermountain Country People Will Receive the Benefits. A representative of the Standard called on tho different merchants and business men oi Ogden this morning and secured Interviews with reference refer-ence to the reductions In the freight rates made by the Interstate Commerce Com-merce commission and found all of the interviewed of an optimistic frame of mind on account of the reductions re-ductions They agree that It will bring many thousands more Into the intermountain country each year and the public will derive Innumerable benefits therefrom. Will Wright, of Wrights, sUted that while their discounts offset their freight charges to. a certain extent. It would help them more around the holiday season than at any other time, but notwithstanding this fact. It would mean a decided reduction In the annual expenses and would be taken Into consideration when they marked their goods nnd the public would derive the benefit of the reductions. reduc-tions. Messrs. Douglas and Plngree, of the Boyle Furniture company and Ogdon Furniture company, respectively, spoke on the same lines, each saying that tho reductions meant a saving to tho people of this community and tho surrounding country, nnd wherever wher-ever their territory extends. Neither attempted to say whether their territory ter-ritory would be extended on account of the reductions, hut both Eald It was a great move and will help every man, woman and child directly or Indirectly. In-directly. , When F. J Klesel was seen with reference to the reduction, ho did not j feel at liberty to say much about It, 1 but thought It a very liberal cut and one that would affect the consumer to a great extent, although It would not bo felt for six months or more. Further Fur-ther than this he did not wish to bo quoted. James W. Abbott of tho George A Lowe company, was attending court and could not seen as to what ho thought of the action of the Interstate commerce commission J. R. Cooper, speaking for tho George A. Low company, stated that Ogden, and In fact all this Intermountain Intermoun-tain country, would enjoy the Bamo ratoB as those on tho coast, nnd that they could now compete with the hardware houses of tbe coast as far west aa Reno and those of the north- ' west as far north as Boise, Idaho, which would widen their territory fully one hundred miles and will naturally natu-rally mean a greater volume of busl- I i ness for them. Mr Cooper further said that it ) would effect the rates on hardware to the extent of about 35 per cent It moans greater prosperity throughout this entire Intermountain country and. as tho merchant charges the public the freight by adding It to the goods, this will be taken off and the consumer con-sumer will enoy the advantage of the cut. |