The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-16

The Baltimore and Ohie Railroad Company
Refuses to Join tho Pennsylvania Com
binations.
WARRINGTON, August Is, 1859.
President Garrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road. In his report Of yesterday, lets little light
polists. After stating that his road had brought to
market during the ten months ending the alst ult,
LOSS SO4 tons of coal-nearlY double the amount OF
tho preceding ten months-Mr. Garrett says
Coal carrying interests in Pennsylvania haze
urgently pressed this company to advance materially
OF one dollar per ton sohtch soould no,o make dt
ference In the net receipts OF the company OF $780, 900
per per mont ne greet ds%,Gna JSr coax sooud
to be used. The company, however. look
ing comprenensrvely at all the great interests in
shed In che spring OF 1868, viz, So so per ton of
1000 pounds from Cumberland to Locust Point ship.
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quarter cent per ton per mile-a rate deemed by
railway companies generally to be unremunerative-
pany to continue 1t during the present ana approach
ing season.
by the coal carrying interests Of the anthracite re-
gOns. The Reading road, for ninety miles, has ad-
vanced its rate to 81 so per ton, thus doubling the
Ohio Railroad Company. Notwithstanding the
greatly shorter distances OF the anthracite regions
from Baltimore, as compared with the bitumIn0us
coal regions, yet the rates Of the Northern Central
Railroad and other companies have been such as to
cause In combination with the cost OF that COAL the
prices charged to consumers in Baltimore to be from
nine to nine dollars and a half per ton.
The vast advances to the manufacturing and COM
merCfal interests OF Baltimore which are secured by
the low tariffs on coal maintained by the Baltimore
and OHIO Railroad Company can be appreciated by
contrasting the market rates for Cumberland coal,
viz, four dollars and sixty cents to five dollars per
ton Of 9, 240 pounds, delivered at manufactures &C.
cessibe by water in The harbOr for steamship pur-
the trafic in coal on the road in June and July,
including a. 752 tons for the OF the company
315,597 TONS and. large as the demand is, the CON-
pany Is promptly meeting all the present require
ments both for local purposes and for shipment.
The deliveries In Baltimore frequently exceed $500
tons per day. Statements have recently been pub
lished which estimate the combined capacity OF the
Northern Central Railroad Company and the Tide
water Canal Company at but 1,40O tons OF coal per
day, and this limited delivery is given or the
the consumer in Baltimore.
1t will be noted that the capacity OF the Baltimore
and Ohio Company for coal transportation at pre-
sent Is four times as great as the combined water
and rail capacity from the anthracite regions to Bal
bv the Batimore and Ohio Ccmpany are being made
too, from much greater dlstances-namely, from l78
to 300 miles, 1t Is trusted that the policy which the
Baltimore and Ohio Company has SO steadily pur-
sued, and which 1t has determined to maintain
through the fall, and even during the expensive
period OF the winter, OF charging only It's low rate
Tor transportation will continue as heretofore, not
only to benefit directly the interests CT our cOmmu
nifty, but that IL Will also aid In reducing the high
prices charged for other descriptions OF coal.
The operations OF the high tariff coal monopolists
here in the LOBBY Of Congress to the price
of their commodity has been exposed time and again
in the HERALD, but very few were prepared to be-
leve that their c0nspiraces were carried to the
extent indicated by MIR. CARROTS revelations The
Industrial League and other high tariff associations
are now making arrangements to have a full out
side delegation In tue LOBBY to supervise the action
OF Congress during the approaching session. 1t re-
to be seen whether the people are TO have any
consideration or not