For all this traffic exposed to water competition, it was averred, the intermountainterritory was more remote, if not geographically, at least for purposes of rate making.
And it made no difference how near any point in this wide zone might be, the disparity in rates against the intermountain points was relatively the same.
The opinion of the Commerce Court,[778] setting aside the intermountain rate orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission, will shortly be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States, to which tribunal appeal was promptly taken.
A part, but certainly only a part, of Pacific terminal business may be lost, but this will be more than offset by the growth of intercourse with the intermountain states.
From this zone, therefore, intermountain rates might be not more than seven per cent.
For, whereas the former intermountain tariffs from the East were from fifty to one hundred per cent, above those to the Pacific coast, the difference under this order might never exceed twenty-five per cent.
The importance of both the intermountain and Pacific coast traffic originating along the western confines of the blanket zone, steadily increased.
All the former decisions had held the intermountain rates inherently unreasonable.
This fact greatly aggravated the discrimination against which the intermountain cities complained.
What was taught in the early days of our history in this intermountain region is equally true today, and it is the duty of every Latter-day Saint, so far as it is possible, to own his home, to possess an earthly inheritance.
What is more important, however, the success of these seedling Persian walnuts points to the practicability of planting the hardier varieties of this nut in the intermountain states.
Reed, Indiana 101 Interest in Nut Growing in the Intermountain States, Dr.
To the westward, where the curving railroad track was lost in the farther windings of the river, lay the little intermountain city of Brewster, a few of its higher buildings showing clear-cut in the distance.
It is a striking fact that when the commission was considering the question of transcontinental rates in 1910, it appeared that the great bulk of traffic destined to intermountain cities originated at Chicago or at points west.
Except for the aggressive aid given by the national administrations to the leaders of the Mormon Church, the people of Utah and the intermountain states would never have permitted the revival of a priestly tyranny in politics.
It had been repudiated by the St. Louis platform of June, 1896, and the intermountain states would probably refuse their electoral votes to the Republican party because of the repudiation.
But I learned subsequently that he had come to Salt Lake to persuade the leaders of the Church to use their power in favor of the Republican party throughout the intermountain states.
Break his connection with the illegal trusts and combines of the United States, and his financial power will cease to be a terror and a menace to the industry and commerce of the intermountain country.
It is charged that the Church is a business corporation rather than a Church, and is establishing a monopoly in business, and threatens, as some gigantic trust might threaten, the industries of this intermountain region.
Temperate Life-zone and higher in western Andes and intermountain valleys of Peru.
Temperate Zone of the western Andes and intermountain valleys of Peru.
It was a glorious night of the intermountain autumn; the stars burned large and yellow overhead.
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The coming of our people to Utah in 1847 brought us into contact with the powerful intermountain tribe of Utes.
From this time until Pleistocene glaciation an incomplete geographic isolation was in effect between the populations of the Pacific coast and the intermountain populations.
The population occupying theintermountain region probably was isolated from the population to the north and west.
There may have been a similar zone of interbreeding along the crest of the present Cascades where the intermountain and coastal populations conceivably could have met.
Western montane floras, which extended north along the Rocky Mountains and the Cascade and Coast ranges, probably paved the path for a northward migration of populations of the intermountain Z.
Rather, when the world was freighted for its long voyage, some of the richest stores were given this intermountain land to keep, and jealously has she guarded them with barren mountains for sentinels and lusterless sage for a cloak.
Metropolis of the great intermountain country, with fertile, irrigated valleys, the city's destiny is perhaps chiefly to be forecasted in manufactures.
This is especially important in the intermountain country where no uniformity exists, but the warning should be heeded also by the Pacific coast and Great Plains wheat areas.
In the intermountain states, with wet winters and dry summers, fall sowing has almost wholly replaced spring sowing.
At present these wheats are grown chiefly in the central and southern parts of the Great Plains area and in Canada, though they are rapidly spreading over the intermountain country.
The heaviest snowfall is in the intermountain district, from the west slope of the Sierra Nevadas to the east slope of the Rockies.
Many dry-farmers in the intermountain country have piped water seven or eight miles from small springs that were considered practically worthless and thereby have formed the foundations for small village communities.
The semisoft winter wheats are grown chiefly in theintermountain country.
The recent practice in practically all dry-farm districts, at least in the intermountain and far West, to use the header for harvesting bears directly upon the subject considered in this chapter.
The others made their way across the Sierra Nevadas and the deserts, to join their people in the intermountain valley.
First Farmers in Many States It is a fact little appreciated that the Mormons have been first in agricultural colonization of nearly all the intermountain States of today.
Possibly there might have been established in the California valleys even richer Mormon settlements than those that now dot the map of the intermountain region.
Less research has been devoted to the impact of equestrian life and the pursuit of the buffalo on the social structure of the people of the Intermountain area.
As such, they are included in his Intermediate and Intermountain Areas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intermountain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
