Show THE FIRST CUT egg rates are split in twain delivered safely by the missouri pa road at 2 cents per hundred at st louis chicago march 27 the first open flat cat rate binco the auti association decision of the supreme court of the ignited states was made by the missouri pacific railroad it made a rate of cents on ega on car lots from all kansak cointa to st I ouis subject to the missouri MIe river minimums this is ft proportional rate on through business east of the western trunk line terminal and to points thereof the tariff rate is from 45 to 75 cents par pounds it is understood thai the western lines will publish an equalizing tariff aa soon as the missouri pacifica rate which is effective next monday ie made known the of thia cut will be to bend cases of ecca for storage from chicago houses to cities east of pitts bure and buffalo the cause of this cut ie the withdrawal of roads from the freight associations and the effect will be to demoralize the whole western freight rate situation next week chicago roads have secured from the interstate commerce commission com the suspension ot the long and elior haul clauses of the ac so far as paes mger burliness from canadian points to the kootenai gold fields in british columbia is concerned because the canadian pacific road put into a reduction of H to 3 from points in eastern canada to the cold fields this suspension means that the canadian cut will now be met via chicago net earnings of the chicago milwaukee A st paul railroad tor february amounted to an increase of compared with the month in 1896 |