The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-06
HAAS TO YATES.
SoIomon's Severe and Sarcas.
tic Shot on the Subject Of
Rates,--both "Pro'' and
"Corn."

&@t
ways" dated at Richmond. Va. Sept
"a, 1881, and addressed 70 J. B. Yates
Esq, general Manager of the Midland
y. T.. K r. tor Newbern r al
We lave not space for a fun copy.
but give the gi>t thereof a, follows
You say that you thought the
rates fixed by the Associated Roads a,
very high, fairly c ,nsldoring the COVE
hen 4 IT the public rhe public
jouptir~. Zee, g'Iriiri that you. Their
champion. oinl Mt iIl fault with the
rates "a fixed by ia Atlantic and y nth
Carolina X ,Iirvad, mot the Associated
Road J bat as you have repeatedly a :
serted, II was ouly your interest or share
Of these rates that you objected to. A
late as August ooh you had not thought
of finding fault with either the rates re
ferred TO or the rates 20 and from your
own local stations, Of which you say
the local rates to and from points on
this road are satisfactory to US" And
again you say. I'VE accept the tariff
made and promulgated by you BY
ne a WHAT The Associated Roads ?
By no NE ms. But promulgated by
the Atlantic and North Carolina K Ill
road under authority Of its executive,
AS you ought to know.
1t may lie we'll here to state hat the
question of operation does not seem
10 have struck you very forcibic on the
2O,h Of August, for 1.-THE rates that you
then declared as satisfactory to YOU on
sixth class, Norfolk to kinston, out Of
II total rate Of twenty-three cents, your
r.al -A,- 49, .n nnptA f~r ~. So
six miles, while north of Goldsboro, one
hundred and fifty eight miles, receipts
eight cents per hundred pounds.
Your rate on cotton, kinstoD to
Goldsboro, twenty-six miles is one dol
lar and twenty-five cents per bale,
while the rate Of Wilmington and We'll
don Railroad, GOldboro to Whining
ton and Weldon Railroad, Goldsboro
to Wilmington, eighty-four miles, was
one dollar per bale. On guano: From
Wilmington to Kinston, out Of a
through rate Of two dollars and seventy
Ave cents per ton. the Wilmington and
Weldon Railroad receives, fol eighty
four miles, one dollar and fifty centa
and your company, for tw%cnty-six miles,
receives one dollar and twenty-five cents
per ton.
From Wilmington to La Grange, oui
of a total rate Of two dollars and fly
cents for fifteen miles, your company
takes one dollar and the Wilmington
and Weldon, eighty -four miles, receive s
one dollar and fifty cents per ton, and
other articles in the same ratio. And
yet, strange as it may seem, you said
nothing about ''proration" then.
Ii the withdrawal of your proportions
Of the rates operated l~njuriously against
your company, the fault was entirely
your own, and could have been avoided
had you desired to do so and adopted
the usual method of it.
August 10th you wrote me as fol
lows: Steamer rates on cotton, from
here TO Norfolk, are $I.5O; Baltimore
$500; New York 50. so. We can SC
cure greater portion of this. What
proportion will you allow this road =
30 cents II aOt, how much -
Where was your system of "prOra-
ton thenf Evidently not yet con
ceivcd.
My letter, as well as the order on this
subject, was very plain, to any one
accustomed to rates and their divis-
ions
Had you informed me that you had
any ice to 60 from Newbern to Raleigh,
| would have given you the same reply
that | gave to parties at Raleigh who
informed me that they had coal at New
bern to go Raleigh. My reply to them
vas that the Richmond and Danville
would .ccept the same rates from
Goldsboro to Raleigh as heretofore, but
that for rates from Newborn to Colds
boro they would have to apply to you.
Referring to the notice given by
Governor Jarvis to Colonel Buford, l
can only say that tine order referred to
must have been grossly misrepresented
to the Governor. or the source Of
such misrepresentation you are perhaps
better advised than | am.
lfyou are not enieavoring to mislead
the public Ito which your letters seem
more particularly addressed) your effort
To establish your version Of what you
call ''p~roratiou is remarkable. You
attempt to SHOW that Newbern was not
intended to be benefited by the corn
rates in question, and that positive in
jury was intended to Newbern and the
corresponding section Of the State. !
have known something of the business
of the Atlantic and North Carolina
road for the past seven years, the road
being operated during that time by the
State. The corn section referred t,
found an outlet riu NewheIn during
such seasons only Is traffic relations tx
listed with roads at Golsbolu.
During a period when the admins
tration OF the Atlantic and North Car
DINA Railroad did not seek the relations
referred to, and made a contract with
paitles, agreeing to do what you have
twice suggested, to wit, pool G%oIdsboro,
the result was that Newbern and the
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad
lost the corn business 10y an absolute
and complete diversion to other ports.
Was it detrimental to Newbern to
have Mr.. Bonny, u Wilmington mer
chant, revive the lost corr traffic
Was no: the largest part of the corn
crop Of this s~ectisn, through the instru
mentality of MIR. Benny and the Asso
ciated Railways, marketed and shipped
ria Newbern2
Was any rate refused hat would
bring the corn ria Newbern
Can YOU hud any producer or dealer
ia the State who will agree with YOU
IN the statement that the rates were
too high
If Newbern did not need the help of
the Wilmington and Weldon and
Richmond and Danville Railroads..
why was it that when their and WAS not
asked the corr traffic d parted from
N+wbern