The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-27


eigh, Thousand feet of lumber ship
ped from Clinton to that point. The
effect Of this change is that between
seventy-fve and one hundred car
loads Of lumber that formerly found
market along the line Of the B., c. r.
4 NJ. is now entirely cut off from that
quarter and must remain unsold in
the yards here or find a market in
some new quarter.
During the month Of last Nav,
there were shipped from Clinton,
along the G. G. X. & r. railroad one
hundred car loads, or about eight hun
dred thousand feet of lumber, repre-
senting value at low average Of six
teen totwenty thousand dollars. Dur
ing the month of June there were
shipped to the same places seventy
six car loads, or six hundred and
eight thousand feet, worth, probably,
twelve to fifteen thousand dollars
Up to the 25th inst, there have been
shipped from Clinton TO the above
points, in July, but eight car loads
of lumber,or sixtyfour thousand feet,
worth, perhaps, ten or eleven hundred
dollars. That is how the new
law effects Clinton, and that is how
the hlow struck by the Legislature
at the ghost called extortion is receiv-
ed ON the shoulders of our own man.
ufacto,ies throughout the State"
1t seems that the Northwestern
folks are carrying out the law to the
letter, and thus giving illustration of
its workings. The Herald goes on:
"Of course the new law is not
without its benefits - diminutive
though they are, compared with the
losses above cited. For instance, =
Clinton firm shipped ten pounds OF
iron to Charlotte, in this county, the
charges upon which, under the new
law, were but one cent, which hardly
paid for the paper upon which the
way bill Was made.
The above case is beaten, howev-
er, by that of one pound package
which was carried from Cedar Rapids
to Carroll, one hundred and seventy
six miles, free because the legal
charge for its transportation came be-
low half cent and was rejected ac-
cording to the rule Of the company.
A five pound package was carried
from Upton to Cedar Rapids for one
cent. These two cases are reported
in the Cedar Rapids Republican.
The Ogden Reporter, on the line Of
the Northwestern road, is bitter on
the new tariff, and says:
During the coming shipping season
Ogden will ship no less than three
hundred thousand bushels Of wheat.
Under the new order Of things ~e
will pay thirteen thousand dollars
more freight on that amount of Ania
thal-4 Our
Of '%Ts ;nsiriasn.. DIV % SSfoYe.
county will mar.sut,,. ou u1,,
thousand to one rn.on :ssSs sSn %.
wheat this year, and W ia
six to eight cents per hundres su
more for Transporting it than it
been paying before. The freight On.
stock is raised $4.35 per car. Pleas
ant!
The Cedar Rapids Times also adds
the following in regard TO the North
western receipts:
Last week the falling off in the
gross earnings of the Northwestern
railroad over the corresponding week
last year, was eighty-four thousand
dolla,s-an average Of fourteen thou
sand dollars per day. This "defcit, ,
it mus, be remembered, will be made
good by cutting down lists Of en-
ployees - hard working men - in.
Iowa, adding to through freight rates,
etc, so that the public, not the rail-
roads, will be the loser under the
new law.
The Denison Repie,o gives the fol-
lowing items relative to the workings
of he law in its vicinity:
On the first of July new freight
tariff, SO far as grain is concerned,
went into effect OH the Northwestern
road. The increase is three cents per
bushel on wheat from this place to
Chicago As we understand it, this
is the rate authorized by the laws Of
the State of Iowa and Illinois. The
effect it will have on the county will
be simply to take the sum of ten to
twelve thousand dollars from the
pockets Of the farmers per year AS
compared with the rates of former
wears. 1t was for this reason that q
number of the Western members of
the Legislature voted against the law
and for which they received loud con.
formations from self-appointed guard
ians of the farmers interests. The
rate on all grain is increased as is al
SO the rate on cattle per car. r.
Heffelfnger, recently shipped twenty
pounds Of iron to Dowvile. Mr.. Lytle,
agent at this place, billed it ut fifteen
cents. The way-bill reached the Of
fee in Chicago when it was returned
to him with correction of fourteen
cents, as under the new law the Co.
was only allowed one cent for the
work OF transportation. This is not
enough to pay for the making out
way-bill, to say nothing Of loading,
unloading and transportation.
The Monticello cypress draws this
comparison in regard to local and
through rates:
Our local rates are SO greatly re-
duced as to afford the railroads little
or no compensation for their services,
and our through rates will be SO en-
ormously increased that we shall un-
doubtedly find our last state worse
than the first. Our local traffic, it
must be borne in mind, is small
matter compared with the vast guam
titles of grain and produce the farm
ers of Iowa will ship to eastern mar
kets. Wheat is now carried the en-
tire width of this State, from river to
river-three hundred and fifty-fve
miles-at twenty-one cents per bush
ell; after crossing the Mississippi it
viii be carried through Illinois to
Chicago under the rates the new law
there has fixed. In this way, we have
seen it estimated, that the increase
Of rates, as compared with the