Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-23
FIXING RAILROAD RATES.
Southern Railroad and Steamship Asso
citation Rate Committee Meet to n
TRANSPORTATION Charges.

Southern Railroad and Steamship Asso-
citation Rate Committee Meet to FIX
Transportation Charges.
Baltimore Sun, e0th
The Rate Committee of the Southern
Railway and Steamship Association met
at the Carrollton Hotel, this city, yester-
day, and went earnestly to work at adjust
ments and tariffs for the several lines. Mi.
Virgil Powers, General Pool Commits
sioner, was Chairman; Mr..
Charles Sindan, Secretary. The mem
bers of the committee are trafhc
managers or general freight agents oil
their companies. Those in attendance
were Sol. Haas, of the Associated Lines oil
Virginia and the CarOlinas; Il. L. wilson,
Cincinnati. New Orleans and Texas
Pacific; G. A. Whitehead, Central OF
Georgia; Joseph NJ. Brown, Western ana
Atlantic; James r. Ogden, East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia; ;. Is.
Pickens, South Carolina Railway: j. NJ.
Culp, Louisville and Nashville. Other
transportation men in attendance were
Thomas H. Carter, of Virginia, arbitrator
of the association; Colonel l.. X. dorsey,
General Freight Agent, Georgia Railway;
II. COlbran, Alabama and Great Southern;
c. j. Waller and :. Hopkins, the 1relgnt
officials of the Mobile and ONO; >. ,.
Davant, Port Royal and Augusta Road;
u, Rogers. st. Louis and Iron Mountain;
j. II. Drake, Richmond and Danyille; X.
A. Barbour, Richmond and Alleghany;
VIM. Plummer, of Baltimore, and General
GrOner, of Norfolk Merchants ana Miners
Transportation Company.
This committee has assigned 10 IL the
important work of arranging transp0rta-
ton rates between the South, the west
and Eastern seabOard. The tariff sheets
are made upon the bases which they
adopt. The discussion yesterday was
upon the questions of the rates from the
West to Southern coast points. In that
connection a delegation OF merchants OF
Augusta, Ga, made an argument before
the committee in favor OF an adjustment
of rates which will be more satisfactory
than the present tariff. Messrs. Walter
NJ. jackson, James l.. Fleming and Paul
Muster, representative business men OF
Augusta, constituted the delegation. The
body continued In session until p. m,
and adjourned to meet again to-day. Inc
question of rates between the West and
Southern seacOast was referred to sub
committee. The office Of the general COM
missioner of the association is at Atlanta.
Col. E. r. Dorsey, of the Georgia Rail
road. who was in attendance at the South
ern Railway and Steamship Association
meeting in Baltimore, was formerly AS
sistant General Ticket Agent of the Balti-
more and Ohio. His headquarters are at
Augusta, for which important Southern
manufacturing city he predicts great
future. He says the erroneous statement
that the operatives in the Georgia cotton
mills are largely from the North has been
circulated. The facts are that the thou
sands of white people employed i'll the
dozen or more mills in and adjacent to
Augusta are of the home population. The
wide and deep canal, with it's fourteen
miles of water front, which is supplied
from the Savannah river, affords uheX-
celled water power, and it is being utilized
for extensive manufacturing enterprises.
Southern people are not only quick at
seeing what is good in the methods of
manufacture, but they readily learn where
they can make Improvements. One of the
great new cotton mills, nearly ready for
business, is an instance of this. 1t is an
imposing and beautiful structure. The
dwellings erected by the different cOmpa-
MES for their operatives, and rented at
nominal rates, are better and handSOmer~
generally than those of Eastern factories.
The railroads transport the products of
the cotton mills in quantities all over the
country. The Georgia Road carries from
Augusta heavy shipments of dOmestlcs,
plaids, cotton yarns, ETC., which are des-
tined for Chicago, Cincinnati, st. Louis,
San Francisco, Omaha, st. Paul, Mime
apolis, and many other points. The trans
pOrtatiOn lines also bring many consign-
ments to Baltimore merchants. Bal
timore capital is invested in some
of the Southern mills, and houses
in this city are the agents for the
sale of their products. These domestics
more than hold their own with Eastern
goods, and are reputed to be stronger and
heavier in the fabric. Eastern manufac-
turers have lately been after the trunk
line roads for lower rates to the West for
their goods in these special lines. They
say they cannot otherwise compete with
the Southern mills. Col Dorsey said his
as well as the others, can meet any reduc-
ton in rates in this trade. A good many
ears sent South loaded with produce go
back empty, and freights for them could
be taken at low figures. He said the
Southern people feel very easy i'll their
minds about these competition matters.
Some of these days the North will wake
up to the full realization of the astOnish-
ing progress the South, and especially the
State of Georgia, is making in the devel-
Opment of manufactures of all kinds.