Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-01-05

through rate to Liverpool az follows'
Via Gaveston. per bale, $500; via New
orleans, per bale, s5.SI L.; via Boston.
per bale. S6,i5
TO keep cotton out of Galveston the
lines reduced their rates to New Or
leans and Boston sufficiently to make
the same rate as via Galveston. which
required a shrlnkage OF 81 l-2c per bale
via New Orleans and l.5b per bale
via Boston, or In other words the line
to New Orleans accepted S2.2l IL per
bale for It's service. instead OF 1918 per
bale; the line to Boston 1886 per bale.
Instead Of Sc so per bale
The Southern Pacific from Houston
to New Orleans received SOC per bale
for Its service. leaving N.S l-2 per baie
for the Houston and Texas Central, for
instance, for Its service from the com
mon point to Houston, az against " %
per babe. what II could have received to
Houston II II allowed the cotton TO
come 20 Galveston.
Thus the Houston and Texas Central
voluntarily accepts $i.N l-2 per bale
for Its service In transporting a bale or
cotton to Houston destined {" New
orleans. while It could receive 81 20 per
bale If destined to Galveston. we DO
not believe there are any conditions
or circumstances which Justify the
Houston and Texas Central IN charg-
ing the Galveston bale SLOT IL more
than II does the New Orleans bale.
In the matter OF the ship brokers'
relations 10 the movement for a re-
ducilon OF rates. the statement says;
While the ship brokers nre Interested
In the matter, so Is every laboring
man OF Galveston. every retail ana
wholesale merchant and every resident
who has the welfare of our city AT
heart. The stevedore. the screwman,
who subsist by their labor In handling
cotton. have as direct an interest as
the ship broker The retail merchant
who furnishes these men with their
supplies, the wholesale merchant VINO
sells the retailer. all have a direct and
Immediate interest in the outcome OF
this controversy.
1t is a fact that the influence OF Cal
weston made the low rates which have
prevailed this season, OF which the
producer and shipper obtained the ben.
eft. II is a fact that as the volume OF
business increases the cost OF trans
acting the business decreases. There.
fore. Galveston can handle 2,OoOooO
bales OF cotton mt a less charge per
bale than 1.0O0,000 bales The more
cotton that is handled through Calves
ton win reduce the charge per bale,
will invite and attract more ships.
make competition more active and
hiring about further lessenIng of the
charges, which will rebound to the
benefit OF the producer and shipper. as
Galveston makes and viii make the
rate he pays to the point OF consump-
tion. a
Rather than attempt to draw any
more cotton than the railroads see NJ
TO give them. the ship owners VIII con-
clude that n will be better TO send
their ships 10 New Orleans and BOSTON,
where the cotton now goes. Texan ports
will be practically abandoned and the
influence OF low water rates Will be
lost TO the state.
The steamships Springwcll and Crom-
well left here In ballast for New Or
leans and there obtained Texas cotton
at higher rates than they would have
accepted at Galveston.
win the owners OF these ships send
them 10 Galveston again, knowing that
they can get the same cotton at New
Orleans at better rHtesY
Galveston does and Will mako the