The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-05-11
SHIP VERSUS RAILROAD.
Results to San Francisco of COMPETE
tlon Between Clipper and Lo-
comotiVe


tion Between Clipper and Lo-
comotive.
Copies of the new West-bound tariff
OF the Sunset Route have been received
in this city. It cancels all conflicting
rates by that route, according to the
first announcement It makes. Rates
named therein will apply from New
York city to San Francisco, Sacramen-
to, Marysville, Stockton, San Jose, oak
land and Los Angeles in connection
with the Morgan Steamship Line.
shipments from points other than
New York city will be subject to char
ges from point of origin to Morgan
Line Pier. New York" The tarifr Is
devised solely to fight the tSthnus
route and again close It against the
public. 1t applies only to the Sunset
Route, which places Mr., Huntington
in plain sight as against the people OF
California. and his company Is to do
the fighting to break down the comps
tition to which California, assisted by
the Panama Railroad Company, has
instituted in the carrying OF fretsAts
between the Atlantic and Pacific
Coasts. 1t is 0f Interest to know that
the isthmus route will R9lly meet all
rates that are made. The public has
u chance to choose on one side between
the line which is trying to keep open
competition by the lSthmtts route and
which has for its purpose the building
up OF California. and on the other the
Southern Pacific Company, which is
doing its best to kill of competition
that it may once more put high rates
into effect and secure war indemnity
to boot
The following comparison shows the
changes in the rail class rates between
New York and San Francisco which
the establishment of the North Ameri-
can Navigation Company and the Mer-
chants Shipping Line has brought
about:
MERCHANDISE.
Glass 6ld rates......s4 20 50 g SO % 50 g
New rates. ...... 3 40 3 90 40 30
CARLOADS.
Glass 5 A b C d E
Old rates. 80 90 50 90 81 80 81 45 81 80 81 20
New rates. 1 20 rs 1 So 12O 1O5 95
These rates are in cents per 100
pounds. The old rates quoted are those
of the West-bound tariff of the old
Transcontinental Association. The
shipper finds it as much cheaper per
ton to move through freights since Cal
ifornia citizens went into the trans
portation business, as the following
figures indicate First class, SIG; Sec
ond class, $14; third class, 50; fourth
class, IS; fifth class, S.; class A, S.;
class B, $5; class C, S.; class d, IS; class
e, $5. The lowest class comes at $50
per carload less and the difference in
first class is at the rate Of reduc-
ton of $16O per carload.
Here are some of the rates in the
Sunset Route tariff: Acids in carloads
81 cents per 100 pounds, the old rate
being 1885 in less than carload lots,
and from $I.3O to $2.S5 in carload lots.
Agricultural implements now come by
the Sunset Route at $1.16 per 100
pounds, carload lots, as against the old
rate of $145. Hand implements take a
rate of $1.65 in less than carload lots
as against the old rate of $2.S5 per 100
pounds difference of $14 per ton,
These examples are indicative. Some
of the carload rates are as follows: Ale
and porter, carloads, Go cents; alum, 60
cents: asbestos, asbestos roofing, etc,
65 cents axes, without handles, S5
cents; baking powders and baking pow
der compound, so cents; pearl barley,
Go cents; barytes, 70 cents; beer, in
glass or stone, rs cents; bells, $l25;
betting, rs to S5 cents; bitters, rs cents;
billiard tables, $1.25 blacking, 70 cents;
bleaching powder and salts, so cents;
bluing, rs cents; glass bottles, so cents;
wine or beer, so cents; box stuff, So
cents brass goods, 65 to rs cents; but
ter, Go cents; canned goods, so cents;
tin cans, So cents; carbon points, 81;
cartridges and cartridge shells, ST. cas-
ters, 65 cents; caviar, rs cents; building
cement, 80 cents.
Chlmneys and lantern globes (glass)
$l20; oilsSin clothing 81; coffee in
sacks, rs cents; chocolate, so cents;
composition for roofing, Go cents; cop
per goods, 65 to rs cents; cornstarch,
65 cents; cream of tartar, So cents;
crockery, So cents: dressing, harness
or shoe, rs cents; drugs and medicines,
$i.40; earthenware, 95 cents; traction
engines, $l,S6; feed boxes, nested, &c
cents; fish, dried and salted, 80 cents
TASKS, glass, so cents; fullers' earth, IS
cents; bedroom sets, $1.05; furniture,
from $1,O5 and $1,20; ginger ale and
mineral water, 75 cents; glass tumblers
and goblets, 90 cents; glucose, so cents
glycerlne, 75 cents; hair, plastering,
$1.l0; names. 90 cents; hardware, mixed
carloads, so cents; hallowware, N.2O
Ink in bottles or cans. so cents; iron
angles, channels, beams. etc, 75 cents
Anvils, so cents; aXles. rs cents; bill
lets, blooms and ingots, 80 cents; cast
ings. 75 cents: chains, so cents; chair
ladders, rs cents; iron fence, 30 cents
cast-iron pipe, 80 cents; wrought-iroa
pipe, SO cents; rivets, 80 cents; iror
roofing, so cents; Safes $3.50; lars ant
glasses, so cents; jute and jute butts
20 cents; kegs, 80 CENTS lead, pig. bar
sheet and in pipe. 20 cents; lincrusta
$3.50; phosphate OF lime, $3.50; whisk.
in wood, 20 cents; fruit juice. So cents
log wood. 7b cents. maccarnni or verm