BIG INCREASES THIS YEAR.
Injunctions were recently obtained by the United States Government restraining twenty-five Western railways from increasing their freights, which had been raised simultaneously. Speaking in tho United States Senate, on May 25, Senator La Follette said that since January 1 the rates on wool from St. Louis and Duluth to New York had increased 17 and 18 per cent.; on grain and grain products, domestic from St. Louis to New York, 18 per cent., and from Chicago to New York, 30 per ccnt.; fresh meats, from Missouri River points to Chicago, 16 per cent.; Missouri River points to East St. Louis, 23 per cent., and the rates on horses and mules, between St. Paul and La Crosse, 10 per cent.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 857, 1 July 1910, Page 7
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123BIG INCREASES THIS YEAR. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 857, 1 July 1910, Page 7
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