The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-19
ORDERS BY The COMMISSION
Notice Given Of Hearing on the
Lumber Rates.
IT IS TO 81 HELD ON JUNE 20.
II IL proposed to Raise the Rate ia
Q 1-2 Cents from All Points
Except Beaumont.

Austin, Texas, June I.-Tne raliroan
comm ission ground out q number OF Off
cial Lotices today. the most important OF
which had reference to the adjustment Of
lumber rates. viz:
II is ordered that notice be and the same
Is hereby given to all persons Interested
that the railroad commission of Texas
will, on Tuesday. June IS, 1895. at Its Of
| fee In Austin. take UP and consider the
matter OF an adjustment of the rates on
| lumber from all points on the Sabine and
East Texas railway to Sabine Pass, from
Beaumont to Port Arthur, and from other
Of the Stabe to both Sabine Pass and Port
Arthur.
1t will be proposed to establish the fol-
lowing rates to apply on lumber to SABINE
Pass and Port Arthur. From Beaumont,
2hz cents from stations on the Sabine and
East Texas railway north OF Beaumont.
31a cents, and such other rates from the
above and other milling points as the
existing conditions. TO be established at
the hearing, will justify.
All persons Interested in the matters
embraced In the foregoing notice are re-
quested to present TO the commission, on
or before the day OF the hearing, their
views In regard TO the same.
The commission mado classification rul-
ings favorable 10 the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railway in regard to the shipment
OF electric light, telephone and power cable,
enclosed in lead, same as electric ctOlCs,
tissue paper busters, in baied, same as
feather busters KANT, same as ierulllefs,
mould chllys. Tor moulding street railway
chairs, same 40 rail- chails, nose clamps,
same as hardware; cane seed, same as
sorghum SEED.
The following order was also issued: In
approval OF application OF the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway COM
pany IL Is hereby ordered that the fol
lowing exception be added TO section OF
commodity tariff No. 3. Rate on cotton
seed meal and hulls, IN straight or mixed
car loads, minimum weight 10000 pounds
per car, from Houston to Streets Switch
and Intermediate points, cents per 100
pounds This order shall take effect June
~. 1898
In approval OF application OF the Gal
weston. Harrisburg and San Antonio Rail-
way company the commission made the
following order; Rate on grain and ar
Mcles subject TO grain rates. In car loads.
from Houston to Streets Switch and inter-
mediate points, cents per 100 pounds.
This order shall take effect June 20. 1898.
In approval OF the joint application Of
the Chicago. Rock Island and Texas rail-
way and tho Houston and Texas Central
Railroad companies, the commission gave
1t out that authority Is hereby granted for
the adoption OF the rate OF 10 cents per
100 pounds for the transportation of sawed
oak lumber. In ear loads, minimum weight
10000 pounds per car, from Boyd and
Paradise to Dallas.
The railroad commission also Issued tho
following order today; In approval of Joint
application. submitted under No 1913 OF the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Com-
pany Of Texas, authority Is hereby granted
for the adoption OF the following "excep-
tion" TO Western classification to govern
in the transportation, by railroads between
points in Texas, Of the articles named;
Rates on farm wagons, car loads, VIII
apply on tho following described articles.
minimum weight $4,000 pounds:
Axles. wooden or iron; brakes, bolts and
bows; bodies and seats and lumber for
same: holsters; chains, stay and tongue.
coupling poles; double trees, single trees
7 and neck yokcs, plain or lroned. felloes or
rims. sawed or bent; gearing sawed or
bent; hawns, sawed or bent; hubs; lead
bars, nuts and washers; oak, hickory, ash
and poplar planks or rims, pine bottoms
for wagons: pole circles; reaches: sand
boards; shafts and poles. In the white,
| lroned or unironed, shaft bars; springs
buggy or wagon spokes; stakes thimhle
skelns, tongues: wagon malleable castings:
wagon wood sawed or bent wheels, In the
white ironcd or unironcd: wagon bed rods !,
wood bed pieces; wood brake bars.
This order shall take effect June 20, 1898,
cancelling item OF circular No 54S, which
took effect December s. 1897