Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-03

Sanger. ............ AZ lcc.
Valley View....,..... 80 S. Toe.
The average advance on -four varies
from to . cents, and on wheat the I'D
vance is about p cts, making an aver
age advance OF about cts. The Inter
State rates have declined ON the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas aud Gulf Colo
RADIO and Santa Fe. S cents per 100 lbs.
To Mr.. Perkins question, mo we
cannot supply the common points In
Texas on a y cent rate
The mill was run at profit under
the commissions rates; II we are max |
lug any money now can't see il. We |
are in the business and have TO run
whether there's profit in it or not. |
The interstate rates We're cut prior TO |
the commission and since. The rates
fixed by the commission were Us high !
as we could pay and com
pete. Do not know how
far it is by the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas and santa Fe to Kansas aud Mis-
souri,. a difference Of - cents a 100 in
our favor might enable us 10 compete,
but it depends largely on the price OF
wheat, competition here and other
causes
Mr.. Perkns-It's not freights, then,
that troubles you, but the price OF
wheat?
It's freight and other causes COM
| bined. We cant got in successfully
on 2O-cent rate, where they get in ON
| 40 cents.
Mr.. Perl,ius-You need cheap
! wheat The legislature shyuld pass II
law requiring farmers to raise more
wheat.
BY Mr.. Foster How many mills
have you in competition In Texas!
In Il radius Of 100 miles OF Fort
Worth there are several mills. These
mills have about the same rates and
cover about Us much territory (siNty-siN
niles as we can. As TO how cheap
mills in Kansas produce flour, l cant
say. As TO how these other Texas mills
can compete, or whether they
can manufacture flour AS cheaply
as we can, don't know;
we have one OF the best mills In the
state. The price of wheat has been de-
clining, The price Of -four Is cOntroll-
ed by the competition. The consumer
pays the freight, Do not know what
rates Kansas mills get, Do not know
whether they could pay wheat rate into
the mill and flour rate out and compete
in Texas on Accent rate We don't
compete in Kansas or In the Indian
Territory with Kansas Have not
asked for rate in the Territory
: this season. The rate was formerly
about % cents. Can't say whether kan
; sas mills have milling-in-transit rate
: or not. DO not SEQ how they could
compete on 45-cent rate II they did
not have IL. We can't compete now be-
cause the rates have been raised on
local and lowered on interstate.
Mr.. Perkins-If we raised as much
surplus wheat here US Kansas, could
you make 1t as cheap, and could you
compete on 40 cent rate
don't zee how n We were on an
equal footing we could mix.
II the farming community raised
more wheat, wouldn't II help!
don't know that II would. II they
have a milling-in-transit rate and we
= have not. we couldn't do II.
VIM. MONTGOMERY deal In western
produce and fruits, Wholesale; ship
from all points In the United state;
shin in and out; our heaviest commodi-
, ties we snip direct 10 the purchaser.
The rate to Cleburnc is 2d cents
local: through 81 cents; st, Louis terri
5 tory 81 cents.Chicago territory III cents;
. ON class @ we ship south ON the Santa
Fe to Temple, and west 20 San Angelo.
Rate TO san Angelo, 20 cents; TO some
nlaces on the line. 0j cents. Local rates
= from Fort Worth 10 these points are
higher than from ST. Louis to these
: points. don't ship any fruit out Of
; Texas. Ship Irish potatoes TO Kansas
City. The rate, think, is 40 cents.
A great many are raised for the SUM
mer business. They are earlier than
the North. Texas potatoes won't bear
transportation. Farmers raise small
; quantities, but Of inferior quality
Have shipped 10 foreign points In
! Texas with unsatisfactory results.
Mr.. Perkins-lf surrounding towns
had to pay higher rate, you could sell
more gOodsy
} don't know-we sell EN- anyhow.
Would do moro local business. The
t common point rate makes against
2 building up any special town, My
neiphbors sometimes undersell me.
rhelr facilities for buying are as good
as mine: suppose he Is satisfied with u
, smaller margin. a man IS often forced
, 10 sell at q loss, for the goods are per-
r ishable. We have TO meet competi-
ton. Sometimes we undersell our
: COMPETITORS. Have been In business
, about six years aud made profit,
; A. r. Llckett, manufacturer OF can
5 dies. crackers, phrch contei tWs~1et
, sugar mostly from New Orleans, some
. times from Texas, and some times di-
rect from the planter; rate on sugar
, from New Orleans Is So cents, rate from
Fort Bend AZ cents. We compete with
, outside manufacturers. Have sold east
10 Pine Bluff. Ark; can't get into
Little Rock one-haf way. owing 70
low freight ST. Louis TO Little Rock
the local rate to Cameron. don't know.
, The rate to Brownwood on candy Is ts
, or 20 cents, from ST. Louis
, STOP; crackers 80 cents, from
: 81. Louis SLIT; this less than
car loads. The sugar rate ~ added 10
our 6s cent rate makes our candy cost
. us in BrOwnwood 7 cent pound more
! than Galveston competitor. The Texas
and Pacific gives candy makers a re-
bate Of . cents. No other road does H..
We can compete 20 Abilene, but oven
with rebate can hardly get 10 Colorado
. CITY The rate on sugar from Sugarland,
I Tex 20 Fort Worth IS " ct. We sell
direct 70 merchants. We are corpo-
ration; have been doing business three
) years.
/ The commission then Adjourned the
hearing to $50 this morning, when II
will be resumed