Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-28
Commission Rulings.
Special to the Gazette.

special TO the Gazette.
AUSTIN. Ten, July 27.-Rates applied
fOr-By the Weatherford and Mineral
Wells railway allowed, mileage rates to
the first station, flour and grain, cents
per 100 pounds; second station, 4 cents;
third station, > cents; fourth, cents;
seventh and last, Mineral Wells, cents ;
whole distance, twenty-one miles.
The same rate on lumber as heretofore
allowed the Houston, East and West Texas
and San Antonio and Houston railway eX-
tended from all points on these roads il
Texas to Rockdale, via the Houston and
Texas Central and the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass railway companies, viz: 2ll4
cents per 100 pounds, effective August 81
The following application from the Inter
national and Great Northern railway was
refused: As the Houston and Texas Cen
tral rate on bagging and ties car loads from
Galveston TO Cisco is 40 cents, and the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa te rate to Wealth
erford it is understood is to be p cents. We
DO not see any necessity for carrying our
present reduced rate of p cents from Gal
weston any further west on the line of the
Texas and Pacific railway than Weather
ford. We ask for your consent to apply the
Houston and Texas Central rate of IL cents
to Cisco to all stations on the Texas and
Pacific railway west of WeatherIOrd to
Cisco inclusive, and all stations west of
Cisco full fifth class Galveston rates the
rates from Houston to the points above
named to be the usual differential under
Galveston rates.
lSigned) j. B. BARTHOLOMEW,
Assistant General Freight Agent for the
International and Great Northern Rail
way.
The San Antonio and Arkansas Pass rail
way obtained rate of l2is cents on the
hundred pounds to Galveston and 10 cents
to Houston on scrap iron from Eagle Lake
and intermediate stations.
The Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe and the
Fort Worth and Denver railway joined in
an application for the approval of table of
rates submitted on merchandise between
Dallas and points on the Fort Worth and
Denver railway, the figures being the same
as published via the Texas and Pacific rail
way, and are reduction OF the present rate.
Approved, effective August 4 This table
is elaborate and carries all classes of
merchandise from Dallas to points on the
Fort Worth ana Denver railway, subject
to the Western classification. The per
centage of reduction is not stated, and the
old rate not being accessible. il is impossi-
bic TO give the amount of reduction on the
commodity rate previously reduced
The Gulf, Colorado add Santa Ee railway
obtained approval OF the application 10
amend paragraph Nc. } to tariff No 56S as
per list attached covering groups of arti-
cles, the same being sheet of rates of the
Western classification adopted at Chicago
July 10
The Galveston, Harris burg and San Anto-
MO. the Texas and New Orleans and the In
ternational and Great Northern railways
made joint applications for grain rates from
LacoSti to stations named in the Interna-
tional and Great Northern, the Galveston
Harrisburg and San Antonio and Texas and
New Orleans supplement No. to tariff No
33S. Approved, effective June 20 This APP
phcation came in July S from the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio railway com
pany, and was deferred for the other roads
to join in the application.