The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-18
THE NEW COTTON RATES
A Schedule to North and South
Carolina Mill Points.
II. g. Bush and $. n. Knott, Arbitrn-
ta-s. Finish the TnbIe-Thc South
ern and Atlantic Coast Line Tariffs
Largely Sustained = The Reasons
fo- Appointing the Commission

| NEW YORK. Jan. 1T. G.. Bush and
S. r. Knott, arbitrators. appointed to de-
| termine fair and equitable rates. on
! cotton from Alabama. Mississippi. and
| Tennessee functions to North and South
Carolina mill points, have prepared a
| table of rates which will apply from
twenty shipping points. including Bir
! mingham and Selma Ala, Meridian, Co.
| lumbus. and West Point, Miss; Chatta-
nooga, Tenn; Decatur and Sheffield, Ala;
| and Memphis and Grand Junction, Tenn.
The new rates per 100 pounds OF uncom-
pressed cotton range from As to 81 cents.
| Commenting on this report of the arbitra-
tors. Vice President Finley, of, the South
ern Railway, said:
while the rates established by the
Southern Railway and Atlantic Coast Line
to Carolina mills have not as a whole
| been approved by the arbitrators. it would
the positions of those companies l. e.,
that the conditions surrounding the cot
ton mill industry Of the Caroliras. called
for better adjustment of rates than that
existing prior to the reductions inaugu-
rated September l. 1900.
For illustration. to such manufacturing
points as Charlotte, N. c.; Green-ille,
Greenwood, Columbia. Spartanburg, Puco-
let. PelZer, Piedmont, S. c., and other
points. the arbitrators, decision results in
a reduction as compared VITA rates in
effect prior to September /, 1900, of
cents per 100 pounds, from such points as
Chatta ;-ooga, Birmingham, Admission. and
Selma; of IL cents per 100 pounds from
West Point and Columbus, Miss: cents
per 100 pounds from Winona, and Green
wood, Miss; is cents per 100 pounds from
Greenville, Miss; cents from Meridian.
Miss. IA cents from Memphis, Tenn;
cents from Gadsden and Alfalfa, Ala;
5 cents from Florence, Sheffield, Tuscum-
bia, Decatur. and Huntsville. Ala; IA
cents from Corinth, Miss, and % cents
from Grand Junction, Tenn.
1.-The rates fixed by the arbitrators in
volve in some cases advances from the
rates issued by the Southern Railway
and Atlantic Coast Line. In some of
these cases the advances arc slight, in
other cases. notably Medidlan, Miss;
Florence, Sheffield, Tuscumbia. Decatur.
and Huntsville, Ala, the rates issued by
the Southern Railway and Atlantic
Coast Line are confirmed; for the manu-
featuring points in North Carolina, east
of Charlotte. the arbitrators have con-
firmed a differential rate OF FIVE cents
per 100 pounds higher than the rates
to points in what is called the South
Carolina group
THE extraordinary development of the
cotton mill industry in North and South
Carolina during the past several years
has led the cotton manufacturers OF
these States to seek in Alabama, Missis-
sippi, and corgia portion of their sup
DIV Gotten. The consumers I'm O
Carolinas have contended that they
could not buy In neighboring States be-
cause the rates to the Carolina mills
were unfairly adjusted with relation to
the rates to New England and foreign
countries.
September last the Southern Railway
and Atlantic Coast Line published a line
of reduced rates from points in Georgia |
Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee,
which were intended to bring about prop |
er relations as to rates to Eastern mills |
ern Railway ana Atlantic Coast Line met |
with much opposition on the part of the |
other transportation lines interested in |
the Gotten traffic from Mississippi, Ala
bama, and Tennessee, and led to the |
adoption by such lines OF reduced rates to |
Gulf ports and to the rest Of the COM
petitive points to counterfeit reductions |
made by the Southern Railway and Allan
tic Coast Line to the Carolina mills.
The question was finally submitted to !
the arbitrators being 8. r. |
Knott, formerly Vice President of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad and
Plant system, but now President Of the
Kansas City Southern, and II. G. Bush,
President of the Mobile and Birmingham
Company and also President OF
the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron