Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-10
FREIGHT RATES.

Letter TrOm Col. L. W. Cole 10 senator
MOsIey.
Col. Z. W. Cole, President Of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis Railroad,
has addressed letter to Senator MOsley, in
which he says:
"Learning that a communication on
freight charges, from the State Grange,
published in the UNION AND AMERICAN,
was read in the Senate, and referred to a
committee, 1 beg leave to make the follow
ing explanation Of the specific charges
made in that communication, the authors
of which say:
Corn from the State Of Illinois can be
shipped from Jacksonville, on the Tennes-
see river, through Nashville to Atlanta,
Ga, for seven cents per hundred pounds
less than the Tennessee farmers corn can
be shipped from Nashville 10 Atlanta
Now let US see if this assertion is cor
rect.
"We give Jacksonville corn from steam
erS the same rate per ton per mile as St.
Louis corn, and when the expense Of get
ting the corn to Mount Vernon, Shawnee
town, etc, are taken into consideration, to
gether with steamboat charges, insurance,
and transfer at JOhnsOnville, L cannot see
how q producer on our line, or within the
State, is Disseminated against, and hence
give you the figures, to wit:
Freight from point OF production on ship
ment TO the Ohio river by rail OF otherwise,
per 100 -.s...-...-.........-.-.-.- II
Wharf boat aud forwarding charges at Ohio
river, per 100 lbs........-......--.....-. q
Steamboat freight to JohnsonSille, (mini-
NUM- .....-........-.......-.-. ~
Transfer az Johns1nyil e.......:....-.:...:.-. "
Railroad freight from Jacksonville TO Allan
IA, per 100 .......................-... 81
Total per loo lbs....................... IS
ain the matter Of local charges, as a
legged, from JOhnsolville, allow me to say
that, while we have never carried any
grain from Jacksonville proper, we have
made rates, and are now doing SO, from
Gould's Switch "a short distance this side
Of JohHsonyille) and WaveTly, to Atlanta
as follows:
From either place to Nashville, Per 100 lbs. 09
From Nashvilis TO Atlanta, per 100 lbs...... 81
Total per 100 Ibs....................... 80
"DIfference in favor Of grain raised in
the neighbOrhO0d Of GOuld'S Switch or
| Wayerly, compared with grain raised IN
Illinois, 10 cents per 100 lbs.
"Our rate on grain from Nashville to At
lanta is 80 cents per 100 lbs, or p cents
per 100 lbs. IL favor Of grain raised in the
neighborhOOd Of Nashville, compared with
the charges on Grain raised in Illinois, that
comes by the river via Jacksonville.
"FrOm JOhnsOnville except brought
there from river points, We have never
shipped a car load of grain, therefore, our
sO-cailed Jacksonville rates are nothing
more nor less than a division of rates from
interior Illinois and Indiana to points
South, and that in competition with other
lines from the same point.
.The rate on grain from st. Louis to
Atlantis, is IS cents per 100 lbs; and from
Nashville to Atlanta, SO cents per 100 lbs;
difference in favor Of Nashville or Tennes-
see production, y cents per 100 lbs.
at must be borne in mind that Missouri
aud Illinois grain, carried to and deposited
in elevators al S.. Louis, costs the pro-
ducar from y to Is cents per 100 lbs, real
IL Il king a difference Storage Of 2 cents
per bushel included) Of A cents per 100
lbs. against the producer OF grain in West
ern States, OF from st. Louis and beyond,
and in favor Of producers here III Ten
nessee.
"The same relative difference applies to
Montgomery, and territory west Of the
Chattahochie river, as to Atlanta.
UYOu will observe, also, that, while the
rate on grain from Nashville to Atlanta IS
SO cents per 100 lbs; from Louisville to
Atlanta It is Al cents per 100 los, a differ
eUce Of IL cents per 100 lbs. in favor OF
Nashville or Tennessee production.
Il know nothing about the charges on
the st. Louis and Southeastern Railway to
Goodlettsyille, referred to, but do know
that, from Mount Vernon, grain can be
shipped to Nashville by boat for 10 cents
per 100 lbs or less, and the st. Louis and
Southeastern Railway may have, in cOmpeti-
{ on with steamboats,, brought gTaintO Nash
vile at the same figures. 1t should be re-
membered. however, that if boats should
bring it to Nashville, the grain would BE
subject 10 forwarding fees, drayage
and local rates from Nashville to
GoOdletSyille. Therefore, the only
questions involved are: Did the St. Louis
and Southeastern Railway exceed its char
tered limits in charges TO GOOdlettsville?
Should it compete with boats on grain for
NASHVILLE at Is cents per Zoe lbs, or de-
cline it? Would it or ought it to lessen
the regular local rates from either end of
its line to GOOdleitsyilie, whether it took
Nashville grain as against boats or not?
Should Nashville be- denied the benefit Of
the competition with the river while it
lasts? Would it benefit GOOdlettsville to
make the Nashville rate higher, and there
By give the business to the steamboats,