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the same basis applicable in surrounding territory and such action would be more 

 apt to have an injurious effect upon the industries of Denver and other centers of 

 trade in Colorado than would the continuance of the present rates. 1 



Since 1896 there has been much improvement in the attitude of the 

 transportation companies toward the development of Denver as a manu- 

 facturing and distributing centre, but as yet the freight rates are far from 

 satisfactory and the evil effect of the old rates on the city's growth has 

 not been obliterated. 



1 KlNDEL, OP. Cil., p. 35- 



