The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-02
ANOTHER ADVANCE
IN FREIGHT RATES
Will Apply to Manufactured Iron
Products.
CONTRACT FOR GRADING LET
r Sid Jones Succeeds Rip Beasley as
Passenger Agent of L. & N. in
this City-Heavy Travel
Advance in Lumber Rates

Another advance in freight tariffs on
manufactured iron from the Birming ham
district will be announced in few days.
The new rate will not include pig iron and
cast iron pipe, but will cover about TWENTY
five articles, which have for the past sew
eial years gone under the classification OF
special iron rates. These articles will be
placed in some one-of the regular classes,
probably above the sixth.
Up to few years ago the sixth class COW
cred nearly all iron products, but the rail-
roads found it necessary in order to foster
tine manufacturing interests of the Birm-
ingham district, to grant an exceptionally
low tariff rate, and did so by placing iron
and all iron products in one class to them
selves, giving what has since been known
as special iron rates.
Now that iron has advanced many dollars
per ton in price and manufactured products
in proportion, the railroads believe they
should no longer haul the products at the
very | ow rates established during the in
fancy of the iron industry, and continued
during the business depression. Several Hd-
vances have already gone into effect on pig
iron, cast iron pipe, etc., perhaps almost
as much as business conditions would war;
rant. The new rate will not affect these
and other heavy commodities, but will apply
to about twenty-five of the fifty or more
articles that have heretofore gone in the
special rate class.
The general freight agents of the differ
ent roads in this section are now consid-
ering the matter of placing these articles in
of oJac Cd
from one to six, and it is believed they will
soon be ready to announce the result of
their conference.
Contract For Grading
The contract for grading the last thirty
five miles of the Gulf and Ship Island rail-
road has been let to C. D. Smith & Co. of
this city, and it is understood the contract
calls for something like $125,OO0. The grade,
by the terms of the contract, must be COM
pleted by April /, 1900. The Gulf and Ship
Island road, when completed, will be ITO
miles long and will run from Jackson,
Miss, to Gulfport, Miss Gulfport is on the
coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Heavy Travel
Passenger traffic on the Southern Rail-
way is the heaviest in the history of that
company. Conductors running between
Birmingham and Atlanta have asked the
company to put another first-class coach
on each of the passenger trains running
between those points. They claim that the
trains as now made up cannot accommo-
date the large number of first-class pas
sengers that travel over that line.
T.. Sid Jones Appointed
AS prediced in The Age-Herald Thurs
tc.,l ,x,;II -
passenger agent of the Louisville and Nash
vile at Birmingham to succeed Ripley
j.. Beasley, who rendered his resignation
morning received notice of his ap-
pointment, or at least instructions to
appointment, or at least instructions to
act as passenger agent until further or
ders He is also immigration agent of the
louisville and Nashville, and the duties
OF the two offices will keep him hustlng.
But Captain Jones is a hustler, and will
see that his road gets it's share of the
passenger business.
Lumber Rates Advanced
On January l, 1900, an advance of cent
per hundred on lumber from southern
points to points north of the Ohio river will
go into effect. The present rate from
points in Alabama north of Montgomery
to Ohio river points Is % cents per hum
dred, and from points south of Montgom-
cry "a cents. The new rate will be %
cents and % cents, respectively.
Southern Railway Earnings
The Southern Railway company reports
gross earnings for the third week in No
vember of 1868, $50, an increase of So, 1863
compared with the corresponding week a
year ago.
Bank Clearings