The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-18
THE NEW IMPLEMENT RATE.
Some Interesting Fsets and Results OF the Late
kniin..

The new cut rate given Wichita by the
| railroad commission on agricultural inn
| plements make saving OF <22 50 on car
| load lots to this point and big saving on
| outward shipments from this point, and
| the big houses here will be duplicated by
others which will come to this point. The
| implement dealers of the west have teen
| holding a convention in Kansas City for
| the past few days. H. c. Taylor, chairman
| of the committee on transportation in
that convention made the following state
NETS which are true and as interesting as
the conclusion is satisfactory. He said:
THE famous Wichita case, is one in
which by u combined and energetic effort
! the merchants succeeded in getting a rui.
| ing from the Kansas board of railway
missiouers reducing the rate from
! Kansas City TO Wichita from 81 cents =
! hundred to % cents a hundred" Mr..
Taylor said, among other things: 1T was
| developed in that case that the rate frOn
| Kansas City to Wichita was $50 per cent.
| higher per ton per mile than the rate from
! Chicago to Kansas City ;about 200 per cent.
| higher per ton per mile than the rate from
! Chicago to For: Scott and Girard; and
more than 200 per cent higher per ton per
mile than the rate from Chicago to CO.
! lumbus. Baxter Springs and Joplin. The
| rate from Fort Scott to Wichita was more
| than $50 per cent higher per ton per mile
than the rate from ST. Louis to Fort Scott;
f! more than $50 per cent higher per ton per
| mi:e than the rate from Chicago to Fort
Scott; and about 800 per cent higher per
ton per mile than the rate from Chicago
| to Columbus. Baxter Springs and Joplin.
Ii was shown that the railroads carried
implement from Chicago To Fort Scott,
Girard, Columbus aud Baxter Springs. an
average distance of about 600 miles, 81 u
cents per huudred-l cent hundred less
| than they carried them from Kansas City
to Wichita, a distance of 2ll miles,
| and % cents hundred less than
they carried them from Chicago to
Wichita, substantially the same distance,
showing, as the Wichita brief put it, THAT
the Sedgwick county citizens paid about
S200 freight on farm machinery to every
81 no paid by the Cherokee citizen" The
railroad experts explained that this was no
Injustice to the Sedgwick county citizen,
but was the good fortune OF the Fort Scott,
Girard, Columbus and Baxter Springs
citizens that they lived on A line of rail.
road running from Kansas City to Joplin,
Mo-, where the Missouri statute rate was
in effect, which was and is much lower
than the Kansas rate, and that the inter.
state commerce act compelled them to
give the same rate to the Kansas cities
situated between Joplin and Kansas City
as they made at Joplin.
These facts have been published long
since in these columns, but of the right
eous ruling which wiped out such out
rageous discrimination and bold robbery
he cited the following results that must
follow under that order:
ITO Wichita the rate was cut to cents
hundred, amounting on an average Car of
$4,000 pounds to So so: to Newton, kas..
the rate was reduced 61a cents hundred
or SIC %; to Peabody the rate WAS reduced
81 cents a hundred. or SS75; to Florence,
2115cents. or Sc 25; to Marion, ~ cents, or
S6'25 to Ell Dorado, 6}}3 cents. or $l625: TO
Eureka, A cents, or $11.25; to Winfield
and Wellington. 511a cents. or Sl3 IS, Ar
kansas City, 3 cents, or S.. IS; and to the
intermediate smaller stations between
these points in about the same proportion.
1t is possible now to ship n car load Of cul-
tivaters or plOws to Wichita and reship
them to Hutchinson at saving of ~
cents hundred, but there is a much
greater saving in the less than car load
rate by rsshipment from Wichita, and no
doubt jobbing business will be built up
at Wichita as result of this reduction in
the rate on car loods, especially if cor
responding reduction Is not secvrsd in less
than car load rate