Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1883-08-02

AUGUSTA, ia, June %, 1909
Editors Chronicle:
In the Chronicle and Constitution.
aHst of Sunday, the Oath /, is a COM
munication signed "M," and dated,
I" Edge6eld G. H., S. G., June Goth,
1885, which contains clause COM
posed of charges which are 80 utterly
the reverse of fact, and so grossly un-
just to the Augusta and Summerville
Railroad Company, {" the city street
car line''), that, Of course, I ask space
to deny a.:a disrrove the assertion
made.
It is stated that the farmers OF
Edge6eld say "that the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad add
FIVE cents on each hundred pounds to
their freight rates to Augusta because
the road is required to pay that much
for the privilege Of crossing the City
Street Car Line.
Now the written contract between
the Augusta and Summerville Rail
road Company (the "City Street Car
Line'') and the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad Company, IN.
der which all business between these
two companies has, for many years in
the past, been conducted, and which
ia bindinc nnon both companies Tor
many years to come, after defining
the term Local Freight Of which
the point Of original shipment or Of
ultimate destination ia the City of
Augusta, sets forth that the Char
iotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Company shall be required to pay to
the Augusta and summervlie Rail
road Company (the City Street Car
Line') no charges whatsoever on Local
Freight"
This local freight is exactly the
branch Of business embraced in the
assertion of M" Any one i'd capa'
BILE OF understanding that, by these
terms, the Augusta and Summervil!e
Railroad Company is, by written cen
tract, prohibited from making any
charge whatsoever against the Char.
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Company, upon any produce or mer-
chardise brought to the Augusta
market, or upon that which is shipped
from the Augu.ta market over the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad. The same exemption from
charge by the Augusta and Summer
Vile Railroad Company is enjoyed by
all the other railroads entering the
city of Augusta in addition, assert
the act, that the Augusta and Sum-
,merville Railroad Company has never,
from the first day OF it's existence,
made any charge on freight which
even approximated TO the rate Of five
cents per one hundred pounds. The
rates Of this company do not reach
one-third Of that amount; and these
cannot, under any circumstances, be
imposed upon freight brought in for
sale IL Augusta, nor upon freight sold
in Augusta and shipped by railroad
out Of the city. On that kind Of
freight, the Augusta and Summervllle
Railroad Company does not charge as
much as one cent fora thousand tons
1t charges nothing whatever, and in
addition, permits the entirely free
and unlimited uae of it's track for that
purpose. In proof Of my assertion,
l append the last report of the Char.
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
of dues to the Augusta and Summer
vile Railroad Company. All others
contain only the same items.
Report.
c., G. & A. RAILROAD COMPANY, !
AUDITORS OFFICE.
CoLvABEA. s.>+ae5 s.+e.5 May Ma 81 sEle;ase-=-s
=. J. Dacics, Esq.,, President 4. d.
s. Il. R. Co., Amg'tsta
DEAR SIE-Below please find state
mcnt of account due your company
By US for month Of April, 1888:
Pounds.
Tonnange to Georgia r, l,092.l49
Tonnage 10 Central R. r. 0l,l2l
Tonnage to ?. R. i& a. Z p. 7G,465
Tonnage to A. G. L. r. Il. 7,840
l,Co77,57S
At l!c. per 100 pounds $l9l.G3
LESS labor account load