The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-29
DECIDED FOR The STATE
The Report Was Filed in the Clerks
Office Here Yesterday.
c. C. R. R. HELPED BY S. A. |. SYSTEM
BY Distributing Expense Of Administration, in
Use of Terminals and Docks, But is Not
Given the Advantages of the 80
Per Cent Additional.
Per Cent Additional.

The report of Mr.. e. S. Martin, special
master in the case of Virginia b. Mat
thews against the Corporation Commits
sion, was filed here yesterday IN the office
of the clerk of the United states Circuit
court for the Eastern Di5tr ct of North
Carolina.
This is the case in which an appeal
was taken from a schedule issued by the
Corporation Commission, regulating the
rates for the transportation of fertilizers.
The report recites that after due notice
to the parties, evidence vas taken on
December 20, 1899 as to the reasonaLIeness
of the rates set out in the circular, and
as to other matters at issue.
He finds that the cost of the Carolina
Central railroad to be $3,4S7 $50, ard that
the present value of the road is $2.S6t SO.
That the Railroad Commission was es-
tablished by the Legislature, and was
given the power to make just and reason
able rates for the carriage of freight and
L - ;engers over the railroads in the
State. That in 1899 the Railroad Commits
sion was succeeded by the Corporation
Commission, which, after abolishing the
rates, in circular number one established
the rate complained of, and the
minimum car load of ten tons instead of
fifteen.
Mr. Martin using the figures obtanad
in the testimony of the plaintiffs witness
finds that the cost to the road to trans
port one ton of fertilizer, intrl-Stlte
freight, is $3.50. and to transport one ton,
inter State freight costs the railroad
.5l59 that the net revenue to the Caro-
lima Central railroad for transporting
freight during the first five months Of the
year 1899, was $22, 6S3.3S, this being i've
sixths of the revenue from this source
for tie entire year. That the net reve-
nue. from all sources for the year 1899 is
$139.27291, which is 4.6i per cent on its
present value, $3,000,000
Commissioner Martin finds, as to the
other matters in question:
1. That the Carolina Central railroad
is not iudiciously located, and that its
location is detrimental to it's interests.t
2. That it's connection with the S2a-
| board Air Line System is benefit to the
Carolina Central railroad.
g. That the Carolina Central railway
has been benefited by the apportionment
of the general administrative expenses
among the different roads of The Seab0ard
Air Line System.
4. That it has great advantages in the
use of terminals and docks.
5. That the Carolina Central railroad
is unjustly treated by the management Of
the Seaboard Air Line System in that K
is not allowed to retain the thirty per cent
| additional rate allowed it for all freight
except fertilizers
6. That its interests have not becen
subordinated to that of the other roads
except as above indicated.
after careful and patient consdera-
tion of all the evidence in this case, and
the principles for ascertaining the rea-
sonabeness of rates. | find and
SO report that the rates of freghts on
fertilizers made by the North Carolina
Corporation Commission set forth in Cir
cular No. /, being the rates complained
of by the complainant in this G'Ijt, are
just and reasonable to the said Carolina
Central Railway Company and to this
complainant"