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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



Rates from Denver and Colorado Common Points, 1896;* Reduced January i, 

 1895, and Advanced November i, 1895 



Class 



To 

 Chicago — 



Old rate. . 



Reduced . 



New rate . 

 Peoria — ■ 



Old rate.. 



Reduced . 



New rate. 



Mississippi 



River — 



Old rate.. 



Reduced . 



New rate . 

 St. Paul — 



Old rate.. 



Reduced . 



New rate. 

 Missouri 

 River — 



Old rate.. 



Reduced . 



New rate . 

 Spokane, etc. 



Old rate.. 



Reduced . 



New rate . 

 Helena — 



Old rate. . 



Reduced . 



New rate . 

 Galveston — 



Old rate.. 



Reduced . 



New rate . 



Galveston 

 to Denver 



50.56 

 .46 

 .46 



•53* 

 •43* 

 •43 



•5i 

 .41 

 .41 



•52 

 •42 

 .42 



•36 



* KlNDEL, Op. CJt., p. 37. 



The reasons for these changes are hard to understand. It 

 may be that the railroads were experimenting to ascertain what 

 the traffic would bear. Some have interpreted the readjustment of 

 rates as a fresh attack on the manufacturing industries then starting 

 in Denver. 



For some time before 1896 the rates discriminated heavily against 



