The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-26
DRAyAGn CHARGES AUTHORIZED
TO De Paid by the Texas Midland
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mt Commerce..
Austin, Texas, September 25.-The rail-
road commission issued the following
special authority this morning:
In the matter OF the application OF the
Texas Midland railroad company for au-
thority to pay drayage charges on cotton
hauled by drays or wagons from the cot
ton yard to its shipping platform at Com
merce.
In thee % 4 - railroad commission
finds Is NBS&ssH<%sS station at the
luncT and Al 9 = Midland railroad
and attend thS.ss 1o1,estern railway of
1etother. A. ~ siderable amount Of
Icdge No. 500 \ leach season from said
s9Vesleo re. acre are two cotton yards
in said town. one located on each line Of
railroad, and each yard is at a consid-
cradle distance from the railroad GA
which 1t is not located; that during the
past season all the cotton al this station
was handled through the yard on the
tracks of the Texas Midland railroad and
on this account this railroad possessed
such advantages that most il not all the
cotton would have been shipped over its
Aaiio bub AVI luo AdCb that III voluntarily
consented to and did promptly switch
the cars of the st. Louis Southwestern
railway company Of Texas to the place
of loading on the tracks OF the Texas
Midland railroad at the usual switching
charge, and as a result the st. Louis
Southwestern railway company OF Texas
hauled mora cotton by 400 bales from this
station than did the Texas Midland rail-
road
The commission finds further thst dur
ing the present season all the cotton at
this station is handled through the yards
located on the tracks OF the st. Louis
southwestern railway company of TeXas
that the st. Louis Southwestern railway
company of Texas refuses to switch the
cars of the Texas Midland railroad to the
platform on the tracks used for loading
cotton, although ii has been so requested
by the Texas Midland officers: that there
are two public weighers engaged in
Weighing cotton at this station and botn
weigh cotton at the yards on the tracfs
of the st. Louis Southwestern railway
company of Texas, and both welghers re-
fuse, though often solicited, to weigh cot
ton or use the yard on the tracks OF the
Texas Midland railroad; that in order to
move cotton from the yards now used,
~ pb Sulpptu over Uut IGAdS MIuidHu
railroad, a drayage charge of say five
or seven cents per bale must be paid by
the shipper and If shipped over the ST.
Louis Southwestern railway of Texas. no
drayage charge is necessary and none
paid; that as a result, of the business
for this season up to September 10 In
slant, the St. Louis Southwestern railway
company of Texas has hauled from Com
merce more than one thousand bales OF
cotton and the Texas Midland railroad
has not hauled single bale In the
Judgment of the commission the torego-
ing facts present an unusual condition
OF affairs that justify an exception to
the regulations forbidding the paying OF
drayage charges.
1t is therefore ordered by the railroad
commission of Texas that until one OF
the public weighers at Commerce use the
cotton yard located on the tracks OF the
Texas Midland railroad, or until the st.
Lotus Southwestern railway company OF
Texas consents to switch the cars OF the
Texas Midland railroad company to the
platform used by the said st. Louis South
western railway company of Texas for
loading cotton, that the sad Texas Mid
land railroad company be and is HEREBY
authorized TO pay the actual cost of dray-
age all CULoD uduuleu dL tuLhuhcn w NHSh
the same is hauled to its tracks for load
ing from the cotton yards on the trac 4
Of the St. Louis Southwestern railway
company of Texas. Provided, that the
agent of the Texas Midland railroad CON-
pany shall, at the end OF each mon h
file with the commission a written memo
randum signed and sworn TO by him
showing in detail the number of bales
Of cotton hauled by drays or wagons, tn
name of the individual performing this
haul, the name of the shipper, the amount
paid for drayage for each bale, AMI thu
name of the individual TO whom pad.