The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-09-04

Tobacco priced, s Is 90 %. 2iss a
We must ask the News and {
Observer, by whom the above
rates were stated? They are
not the rates charged
to this place from any point in
the State. Our contemporary
collect q few freight bills
and see how some one has i'm
posed upon him by furnishing
the above table. Now it is gen
orally conceded that the
freight rates on the W. d ".
roads are lower than any other
in the State, ard Clinton has as
low or lower rates, we are told,
than any other non-competing
point on the road. We have be-
fore us fifty freight bills cover
ing dozen different kinds OF
freight and every one Of them
shows a higher rate than that
quoted by the News and Obser-
YER in the above table. We will
mention a few: Two car loads
of guano, 10000 pounds, from
Raleigh to Clinton, a distance OF
81 miles, $500. This is Sl4.OO
more than the rates quoted by
the News & Observer and $3.50
more than the same freight
for 81 miles, with all extras add
ed, would cost in Georgia under
d commission. A commission
in this State might reduce the
freight even lower or not quite
so low. It would allow fair
rate, doing justice to both the
people and the roads.
The next is a box of meat,
weight 615 pounds from Colds
boro to Clinton, a distance OF AZ
miles, SO cents. According to
the rates quoted by the News
and Observer the freight should
be only sc cents.
The next is 500 pounds Of pa
, per (news) from Raleigh to Clin-
ton, 81 miles, 1924. This is
, class in Georgia, and for 81
miles is II cents per hundred OF
} $1.36 for 800 pounds.
The next is for ten barrels
3 of -four from Wilmington te
= Clinton, a distance of SO miles
9 1920. Now turn to the 18th re
0 port Of the Georgia Commission
0 page y, and see that flour a
= class F for So miles is Is cent
: per barrel or $1.60 plus 20 pc
e cent extra on class +, which
t makes $1.92 or $l.2S less thai
# the rate in this State,as given b.
e the News and Observer, There
e no tabacco "prized" shipped t
n or from this place, but a youn
d man Of Columbus county, VIII
1T is visiting in this county haI
# pened in ouI Office while tn
v matter was being discussed an
e furnishes lis this freight bill
is 293 pounds tobacco from Cerl
III Gordo to Henderson, 253 mile
8: $3.50. In the same report OF IL
" Georgia commission, page Z
r. we find tobacco unmanufacture
n, prized, for 253 miles, II cen
he per hundred, 1912 for q
IT, pounds; aud so on we migl
70 continue indefinitely. Now fe
tilizer and tobacco were not
~ the table as published by U
which our friend, the News al
" Observer, quotes us as glv1n
' Now since our able cotempora
vs.. has always strongly advocate
ess the establishing and patronizil
'ao of home industries, we W
for mention one mole case in pou
as The Carolina Veneer Works
~ Clinton is a home enterpri
and as such ought to supply t
e home demand Will the Ne
Ss and Observer please investigs
- why the Raleigh grape grow
. do not buy their grape bask
40 from this factory?
70 The baskets are quoted low
as at this factory than at the
his tersburg factory, which is.
th e day supplying Raleigh. !
ave difference in freight will g
IAN the explanation, though it
ion. 148 miles from Petersburg