The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-04-18
THE RATIO OF RATES.
The RATIO OF RATES.
Which has Been Considerably DIM
inished and is Constantly
Decreasing.
The cad of the St. Louis Roads Be.
ing Followed by Those Lead
ing From Chicago.
The Reduction Being Taken Advan'
tsge Of by Shippers and Mer-
chants Generally

The cutting In freight rates which was In
augurated by those roads leading out OF st.
Louis toward the west and southwest, the
latter particularly, has been pretty generally
followed by those leading westward and
southwestward from Chicago, and has even
affected those leading from Chicago, and ST.
Louis, also, in measure, to the east. II Is
claimed that the cause of the trouble was the
dIsaffection and dissatisfaction Of the st.
Louis roads belonging to the Southwestern
Rate Association, who demanded from the
Chicago roads of the Association better per-
centage and showing in the pooling arrange
ment, which the Chicago roads refused 10
allow. The st. Louis roads, at the meeting
in the early part OF February, which was held
in the Mound City, gave notice OF their H.
tention to withdraw from the pool, and about
the 18th of March the pool was broken. Az
early as the latter pat of February, however,
the Cutting of rates began, II being under,
stood that the Wabash was at the head, ana
IN is TO this road that the Chicago railway
lines lay all the blame, saying that the 81.
Louis roads are but cat's-paws IN the hands
Of that corporal on. BE IL as 1t may, and
whoever is TO blame, the rates on freight
have been very considerably reduced, anu
the merchants are taxing adSahtAse VI IL
THE CHICAGO ROADS,
i'm order, as they say, 10 Protest tneh Nv -. -
teresis, were compelled TO make another re-
duction in rates to certain Missouri river
points, 10 meet the reduction from SI LOUIS.
The new scale OF prices, as promuiga. ss uy
commissioner Midgley, went into elect yes
t.rday, and is as follows First class, ID Genus,
second class IS cents; third class, 70 cents !;
fourth class, ~ CENTS
SPECIAL RATES.
A special rate of fifteen cents is made on
fourth class in carload lots. Salt, cement ana
master. in carload lots, will be charged 81 at
The rate of sixty-fve cents per barrel coal or
coke, carloads, s. per ton; class A. so per
car class b, $40 per car class - ~ Fer n car
CITY, LeavenwOrth, Atchison and 81. joe Inc
reductisn on first class matter amounts 70
twenty cents per hundred pounds, anu on
other classes proportionately.
A REDUCTION TO THE EAST.
A slight reduction is also made on east
bound freight from Chicago. The rate on ali
grain is lowered TO ten cents per hundred
pounds from Missouri river points 10 Chicago.
tweLe and a half cents. 1t is expected that
il will be dropped down 10 seven cents before
the war between the Chicago and 81 Louis
lines is brought TO an end
TROUBLE IN THE WEST.
II was common rumor yesterday that those
roads in the West, not lines leading directly
TO Chicago, but in direct communication with
that city were preparing to adapt their freisht
schedules to those Of the other cutting roads,
mence. Even as it is now, and with
TIE CUT ALREADY MADE,
which, il must be said, is very heavy, the
roads from Chicago and st. Louis TO all OF the
cities on the Missouri river are fiooied with
business, and the amount OF freight daily
shipped West is something wonderful to con-
template. Every merchant who Is laying In
his spring stock is hurrying Its shipment, al
though IL is almost a dead certainty that the
lowest rate has been reached.
THE MERCHANTS OF THIS TOWN
are taking advantage of the cut, and the way
in which freight is rushing into Leavenworth
is something simply surprising. The general
feeling among business men seems TO be That
before the war is over prices on freight Will go
down as low in proportion as passenger rates
did in 1875, during the great fight in the sum-
mer of that year. OF course II can't last al
ways and IL i policy upon the part OF the.mer-
chants in all the cities on the Missouri river
TO
MAKE THE MOST OF 1T.
Each successive cut by the st. Louis roads, so
far has been met with an equal cut by the
Chicago lines, aud until the corporations en-.
gagged in the night get tired of the business and
negotiate a compromise. freight rates Will be
something as about what they ought to be.