Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-10-20

Rock Hill. .(26 miles) 13c (aOs miles} 3sc
Winnsboro. (71 miles) 2Sc (,52 miles) 2ec
Ridgeway (S4 miles) 2Sc (366 miles) BE
Doko....,.,.(91 miles) 2sc (3s3 miles) zoe
lexington. 30c 3Oc
Flour is still worse. From Le--,-
ington to Charlotte, 90 miles, it is
45 cents per barrel from Hickory
45 cents per barrel, so miles from
Richmond 2S3 miles, it is 45 cts per
barrel. and from Concord, 20 miles
it is SO cents per barrel. l am in
formed upon the authority of a
gentleman of large milling inter>
ests in Surry county that not long
since, he undertook fp sell flour in
Goldsboro, 156 miles from Win
ston-his shipping point. The
freiSnts were so high that he could
not compete with thes.four that
came al the way from Chicago,
and so abandoned The attempt.
Or tobacco; leaf, the rates also
show great discrimination against
the markets and producers ofNorth
Carolina. | have a letter from a
well known gentleman in New Or
leans. formerly a citizen Of this
State, who established a house in
that city tor the sale of North Car
DINA tobacco. He writes me he
has to buy it all in Richmond or
Virginia that the freights are
much cheaper than if he bought it
atsand shipped it from the place
whore it was grown. During the
recent visit OF she commissioners
toSthe work on the Western North
Ca olina Railroad: we asked the
general freight agent Of that road
what were the rates on leaf tobacco
from Asheville aud Marion. He
replied that from both points to
Danville and Richmond the rate
waSE IS cents per 100 pounds.
To Winston, Reidsvllle ard Dur
hamshe told us they had nc rates for
the reason that no one ever shipped
any tobacco from 'AshevilIe or Ma :
rion to Durham, and they were
never asked for rates in that direc-
sion. The next day l met on the
streets of Asheviile four dealers,
who said they shipped great part
OF all they handled to Durham
One firm said they had shipped
there curing the past season more
than 100000 pounds. On exam
ing their bills, some of which
have, [ tound they had paid to
Durham over 81 cents per 100
pounds. and to Danville, only II
miles nearer, about Sc cents per
100 pounds. Here was direct
discrimination against the largest
tobacco manufacturing town in
North Carolina In favor of its Vir-
gnia rival, and an attempt to ig-
.io4e all the markets of the State
in favor of that system which has
made North Carolina production
build up Danville, Lynchburg and
Richmond. No wonder the New
Orleans merchant has to buy his
North Carolina tobacco in Virgin
ia. | have in my possession a cer-
sificate by Messrs. Mills & Walker
merchants in Newborn, which tes-
titles that in July last they pur-
chased a trial tiercc of leaf tobacco
in Ashevil!e and had it shipped tc
them over the North Carolina road
that the freight thereon was at the
rate S1.29 per 100 pounds, and
that they Immediately declined te
buy any more in Asheville on tha,
account, though anxious to do SO
Newbern, be it remembered, is The
same distance from Asheville q:
Richmond, to which place the rate
on tobacco is slxty-tive cents pei
100 pounds.
DIFFERENCES IN RATES.
The following bills of freight viii
further illustrate tile discrimina-
tions
From Third Greek to Concord
ten bags rye, 495 pounds, $3.50
from Richmond to Concord, "a,
600 pounds oats, $3S.4O.
Rye and oats are both classet
sD.' Now, it will be seen that the
one from Third Greek to Concor6
paid thlrty-six cents per 1O(
pounds for thirty-two miles, while
the other, from Richmond to Con
cord, 262 miles, paid sixteen cent
per 100 pounds. Perhaps that rye
was double first-class,' or mayhal
1t was an 'over-charge,' but ther'
are the bills. Call and see them
A rate on North Carolina rye six
teen times greater, distance ant
amount considered, than that OF
Virginia oats, will do pretty wei
for compliance with section 20 o
the act OF sale.
On cotton / have not been abl
to make a critical comparison o
rates, as most Of it is shipped di-
rectly through to New York. Bn
what is dong in North Caroliti
and what on routes through NOR
favored sections, may be inferre'