The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-13

In this table the rates on beer, common
or pressed brick. fire brick. fire clay, broom
corn. butter, butterine. oleo, eggs. cheese.
dressed poultry. emigrants' movabes.
sash, doors, blinds, stone, common or
granite, and live stock remain the same as
under the old tariff. 1t is possible that
Spokane may get the promised relative
rates under the local tariff of the Great
Northern. which is expected to be ready in
q few days.
The reductions on hardware and similar
heavy goods which have been brought in
large quantities by clipper ships around
Cape Horn during the last year will enable
shippers to send their freight overland at
the same gross rate as around the Horn.
What steps the Southern Pacific and
Canadian Pacific will take tn meet this
change is not yet known, but it is ex-
pected that they will meet the cut, as all
freight would otherwise come by the three
roads which have united in the new tariff
1t has not yet been decided by the three
roads what shall be done in regard to the
prevention of undertaking. Since the de-
cease of the Transcon,inental Association
on December 81. 1892. the inspection SER
vice ut Pacific coast terminals has been
discontinued and. if the new tariff is to be
maintained, il will have to be revived.
The first direct effect of the establish
ment of these rates will be the unloosing
Of a large quantity OF freight which ship
pers have been holding back to get the
benefit of any reduction which might he
made. The uncertainty about rates has
caused serious stagnation in the freight
business for some time past. but the re-
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a corresponding activity, Independent of
the stimulus which so great a reduction
would naturally give to business.
The following dispatch tells the general
character of the reductions:
ST PAUL. Feb. 1.-The new west bound tariff
which. after q months session the transconti-
mental railroad conference formulated, was
given out today. aud changes the entire COM
plexiou of transcon!inental rates. The new
rates viii. go into effect on February IL The
tari.f is issued Jointly by the Union Pacific,
Northern Pacific and Great Northern. an: covers
tie entire territory penetrated by these systems
west from Chicago TO the Pacific coast. II
has been the svowed purpose in max
ing these rates to build up the country
through which the road runs. and ali
classes of freight are acted upon and in.
cuded In tie schedules There is an aver
age reduction of so per cent all freight
rates from ~ Paul to spokane; a reduction OF
from Il 20 Is per cent on Coast rates, aud from
> TO per cent on rates To Montans, while the
Only east-bouni reduction viii be Oh :. IL mber
from So to 10 ceuts. and the east-bound lumber
rate 10 Chicago and II Louis remains at 20 and
~, cents respectively.
The reductions TO Spokane are the result of an
appeal by that cIfv TO the interstate commerce
ommission, sad the new rates are even better
than those ordered by the commission. The re-
ductlous TO Montana are q concession to its
commercial development
One or two factors enter into the situation
which give additional interest The present
agreement EN- braces ouly three roads instead of
ten the number subject 10 the old agreement
he new tariff extends no farther East THAI
Chicago. while she one Il sgPersedes provided
for trsuscuntineutal business. IL 10 notable
fact that while only three roads have joined in
tho new tariff all the iEsnsooatiuenial roads
were represented during the early days OF the
TIE conference. Why they withdrew is not
known. bat 10 com pilcatioas are expected from
that quarter, The railroads 10 the south will be
com pes.ed 10 reduce rates Pacific coast points
business al al Il Is understood that ;he Ca
madam Pacific. while rot directly appearing N
the agreement. VIII coincide III the result
The new tariff directly applies to the North
western states ana North Pacific coss, points
It's influence on other territory will be indirect.
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