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Show Livestock Rates Lowered by I. C. C. Washington Substantial reductions In freight rates on livestock moving into a considerable portion of southern south-ern territory were ordered by the interstate in-terstate commerce commission. Rates from the principal cattle markets to Atlanta and Moultrie, Ga., were held unreasonable, and the charges from Chicago to Birmingham, Ala.; Jacksonville, Jack-sonville, Fla., and Chattanooga, Knox-ville Knox-ville and Nashville, Tenn., were described de-scribed as too high. New schedules, to go into effect January 20, by which the charges from western stockyards to the cities named shall be 47 cents per hundred pounds for distances of 420 miles; 62 cents for 900 miles, and 68 cents for 1200 miles, with amounts for intervening distances in proportion. |