Reduced Lumber Rates Into C. F. A. Territory Postponed

Seattle, Washington.-Reduced lumber rates into the Central Freight Association territory from the West Coast due to go into effect July 14, 1932, were postponed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, according to advices received by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, on petition of interested railroads. The case was originally decided by the Commission late in March, the decision favoring the petition of western lumber associations and ordering reductions of from 7f cents to 57/z cents per hundred pounds on lumber from the North Pacific group to typical points in the Central Freight Association territory, which includes Indiana, Southern Michigan, Ohio, and Western Nerv York.

The railroads rvest of Chicago, friendly to the reduction, called on the roads in the Central Freight Association to reduce their rates in compliance with the order but the eastern roads countered u'ith a suggestion that the Western roads should raise lumber rates into the area west of Illinois-Indiana line and so remove the prejudice to lumber buyers and users which the commission found to exist east of Chicago. This the Western railroads refused to do,