Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-11-07
Circular No. 282.

Freight and Passenger Tariffs of the
OFFERMAN & WESTERN RAIL
ROAD COMPANY. THE SPARKS
AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD
COMPANY, AND THE SEABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY.
The Offerman and Western Railroad
Company and the Seaboard Air Line
Railway are hereby placed in Glass A
of the Commissioners Standard Pas
senger Tariff, and on and after Novem-
Der 10, 1900, will be allowed to charge
for the transportation of passengers no
more than three cents per mile.
The Sparks and Nashville Railroad
Company is hereby placed in Glass b
of the Commissioners Standard Pas
senger Tariff, and on and after Novem-
Der 10, 1900, will be allowed to charge
for the transportation of passengers no
more than four cents per mile.
The Offerman and Western Railroad
Company and the Sparks and Nash
vile Railroad Company are hereby
placed In Glass Number Six of the
Commissioners classification of Rail-
roads, and on and after November 10,
1900, will be allowed to charge for the
transportation of freight no more than
as follows:
Freight. Glass No. Con Glasses
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, B. E, G, q, K, L., NJ,
N, o and r: For 40 miles and under,
the Standard Tariff with fifty per cent.
added; for 20 miles and over 40 miles,
the Standard Tariff with forty per cent.
added; for 100 miles and over 20 miles,
the Standard Tariff with thirty per
ko
ard Tariff with twenty per cent. added.
Standard Tariff without percentage.
son Lime and Ice, the Standard
Tariff with ten per cent, added.
1t appearing that the lines of rail-
road heretofore known and operated as
the Florida Central and Peninsular
Railroad, the Georgia and Alabama
Railway and the Seaboard AIR Line, or
Georgia, Carolina, and Northern Rail-
way, are now controlled, managed and
operated as constituting but one sys-
tenn of railroads, known as the Sea-
board Air Line Railway, it is therefore,
ORDERED, That Rule Number
One of the Rules Governing the Trans
portation of Freight of this Commits
sion shall apply to the several lines of
railroad above named and that rates
charged for the transportation of
| freight over said lines or any part
| thereof in this State shall be computed
upon q continuous mileage basis. as
upon a single line of railroad; and on
and after November 10, 1900, there
shall be charged for the transportation
of freight over said lines of railroad in
| this State no more than the rates pre-
scribed for railroads in Glass Number
Four of the Commissioners Olassifca-
ton of Railroads, lin which class said
Seaboard Air Line Railway is hereby
placed) which rates are as follows:
Freight Glass No. 4:-On Glasses
1, 2, 3, A, 5, 6. A, e, g, ii, Ii, N, o,
the Standard Tariff with twenty five
per cent added.
On B, X, M, r, the Standard Tariff
| with ten per cent. added.
On Glasses 9, ID. f, j and p, the
Standard Tariff without percentage.
son Lime and Ice, Glass l.. with ten
per cent. added.
Amendment of Freight Rule No %.
The first paragraph of Rule Number
twenty three of the Rules Governing
the transportation of Freight of this
Commission is hereby amended so as
TO read as follows:
"a ton of all articles enumerated in
she Commissioners Classification. ex-
cept scrap IRON, is 1900 pounds. A
ton of scrap iron is 2,240 pounds. A
carload of any article is ten tons. I'M
less otherwise specified. Where a
shipment weighs more than the mini
mum carload weight prescribed, pro
Iportionately higher rate may be charg.