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

DeeTi faOst Brewing company Of MIL /
waukee. The rates are 55 cents mar
I0O on carloads from Milwaukee 10 |
Fort Worth. Don't ship ice; some Is
put In Tor cooling purposes; buy more |
mere; tried to ship ice and beer: couldn't /
do IT. don't ship less than carloads. |
Haven't shipped from any other point
IN years, 90 cents is the rate from MIL |
waukee to all points In Texas known AS !
common points. | met cut OF Anheuser-
Busch last Monday; the fact is, re.
duced it TO aSl keg, The only reason
Know is scramble for trade.
Ii they sell beer at 81 they
are selling less than cost; don't
know anything about the cost Of manu-
iacture. judge from the tariffs and
the government tax, they pay they
must sell ut less than cost. / do not
sell beer all over Texas. ship ia kegs
to Fort Worth and ship out, | sell
very little In broken car loads. The
price before the reduction was e.. 10. 1
am selling at $3.50, and cut TO 81; its
been going on a long time aud | got
tired and worn out. | want to see ii
IN. stop IL and get back TO u living
. 1SHI3,, The rate from st. Louis to TT.
HsI."cs AZ or As against So iroms Mil
0ty Usually, got little more,
A. cents more because its better
beer ian the st. Louis. and people
wanted it. cut because | wanted TO
bring EN- down to regular price. II
had 2S-cent rate from Milwaukee
could sell much cheaper. The express
on empties is paid; they send back
empties free. Have paid them once or
twice, whore had 80 or 100 emptics.
the Fort Worth brewery ought TO be
able to sell cheaper that we do; don't
have freigh. 20 pay; don't know how
much higher rate Milwaukee can stand
than Fort Worth: J buy boer in Mil
waukee; have been here sixteen years.
Sometimes have got a less rate; don't
know what the published rate was,
then; have paid 55 cents for a number
OF years.
j. w. Spencer. wholesale grocer
and shipper. Under the present ratio
we can. to certain extent, carry on
business except as broker; there Is no
article we handle We can't ship with ad-
vantage from point OF origin to destiua-
tion. The sum OF the two rates is
greater than the rate from point OF ORR
| rin to destination; the two Is far greater
than the direct shipment; as a result we
are doing u deal OF business direct; we
can ship from st. Louis TO common
point in TeXa- as cheap:
our customers pay freight. We can do
business on the Denver as far up MS
! Bellevue, south to Hillsboro and Cliff
ton; west as far as Eddy, n. NJ though
most of II is direct, We have rate on
the Denver us far IA Rhome. / am moi
familiar with freigh,s out. Rhome,
| Clifton, Hillsboro, Plano, are about a,
| far as we get. Have been in business
ABOUT thirteen years. We buy in St
| Louis, Chicago and Kansas City. We
sell more goods from Fort Worth than
direct from origin 10 destination Per
haps 40 per cent. We ship direct by
tonnage. We buy from importers aud
manufacturers. IAN goods sold by
wholesale outside OF Texas do not have
to be shipped into the house; can be
sold on orders. II the rate was so we
could ship in aud then ship
out, we could do big business.
We can't do big business under
the operations of the interstate
commerce law; under it there are com
mon points all over Texas. The re-
taller can buy as cheap as we can. The
trouble is, in the water course towns
rates are lower than the interior towns
A car load OF meat shipped through t
Houston at 40 cents, is stopped here Al
10 cents. Prior to the commission
bought -four almost exclusively n
broker. Our statesmen took orders
Kansas mills make lower rate since
the commission suspended. The inter-
state rates have always been reasona-
bl steady and changed TO SUIT the con
dition of trade. There is now lower
rate on apples from Maine, New HorR
and Michigan, the roads make less
rate than formerly in effect, because
there are no apples In Missouri ana II,
linois. don't know any rates except
those promulgated by the TAR
i'll sheet. We generally get notice o.
new rates from the commercial agent
can buy sugar delivered in Fort worm
from Fort Bend county at the same
price as from New Orleans we nuS
almost all our salt from Colorado Clly,.
Texas. We bought mostly kansas sal'
before the commission During tn'
commission rates we supplied our Gus
to1nerg with Colorado City salt almos'
exclusively. At present we sell some
Nichigap. very little Kansas and about
05 ner cent. OF Colorado City salt.
Il A Mcdonald, OF AhihtroH -"i.'
This season and last we got our gran
SUNNY entirely from this state We
Grind some corn meal: deal m gram loi
sniiling purposes; don't ship the terri
tory we cover is irregular. and depend
nm price; don't get of regular line mt
. Fn,it Worth. Our dead-line shipments
il where the connecting line shipments
comes iu. We shipped flour prior Z
tho commission and during the com
/, MISSION under the commission rates
We wore 10 reach some territory We
cannot reach now. We ship as Ia
south as San Antonio; some to Austn
=, Ne International and Great North
o avn 80 west con the Texas and II
cifc to Pccos. we .o. 49,
shin over connecting linesi we can
, NV. We are virtually shut out oy W
n ,o rate. The rate from kansas
~ S Tsxas common points is - cents We
are moi IN a position 10 work 70 ae'uI
taSe under q higher rate. than 10 Z
sasisfaefory rate would be about ~
Nas, w. don't try to get into any terri
: torv that exceeds l3,cent f re a.
20 ev' ,he Texas and Pacific i So miles
On ~ a it,-eent rate we get 2O1 miles ",
~, . ,b ~ commission; FOR 60 miles the RAJ.
: uer vi II cents against the presg,Inl
! o. - cents. an average Of u cents. "a y
J, Az these rates we could get NJ, ~ -, =