The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-13
RDIE NOT RAISED
Rock Island Has Not Changed
Sugar Tariff.
WILL CORRECT MISTAKE
Rate Granted Wichita on I'M
pIementS to be Advanced.

". H. Herbig, commercial agent of the
Rock Island. denied yesterday that the
Rock Island would abandon the reduction
Of 3 cents granted to Wichita on ship
ments Of sugar.
THE Rock Island has not changed its
rates" said Mr.. Herbig to an Eagle re-
porter, and viii make no change"
a change win be made. however, in
the rate on implements granted to this
city on June L The new rate will go
into effect on June %.
when the freight authorities granted
Wichita the new rate on implements they
inadvertently made it cheaper for Kansas
City jobbers shipping to some points
south of Caldwell to bill their freightNto
Wichita and then reship than it was to
ship it BY the through rate. As soon as
the mistake was discovered it was plain
that the through rate from Kansas City
must be reduced. or the rate from Wich-
ita must be raised. OF course to reduce
the through rate from Kansas City would
take away from Wichita whatever ad-
vantage it now has, and thus the effect
would be the same On Wichita as if we
should raise the rate from Wichita.
we are now working on a new rate to
go into effect June q. 7 do not want you
to understand that the rates VIII be re-
stored to the basis on which they were
before June ]. The new rate viii be salts
factory to the implement men of this
city.
Under the schedule now in effect the
rate on implements from Kansas City to
Enid is A cents; from Kansas City TO
Wichita 23.5 cents, and from Wichita TO
Enid i cents. Thus the Kansas City deal
ers can ship to Wichita and then reship
from here TO Enid for 23.5 plus Il cents.
which is 40.5 cents, while the through rate
from Kansas City is A cents. It is pro-
posed TO make the rate from Wichita to
Enid about 25 cents, which would make
the rate from Kansas City to Wichita
and then from Wichita to Enid 49, cents,
or Is cents more than the through rate.
1t is always the aim Of the company to
make the through rate about a cent or
two less than the two local rates.
llf idLt rum HdHSdS lily 10 henIIOW
is 80 cents. and the rate from Wichita to
Renfrow is L cents. Thus the Kansas
City men can ship to Wichita and then
reship TO Renfrow for 35.5 cents. 1t is
proposed TO make the rate from Wichita
to Renfrow about 10 cents. Even then it
viii be cheaper to ship from Kansas City
to Wichita and then to Renfrow than to
RenfrOw direct. This condition viii exist
after the new schedule is adopted with
regard to five or six towns south of CaId-
well
THE Rock Island road is trying to help
Wichita The implement men here have
been granted the same rates on carload
shipments of implements and mixed car
load shipments Of implements ard vehi-
cles. Kansas City does not have the same
rate on carloads and mixed carloads. The
rate on mixed carloads from Kansas City
to Wichita is s.5 cents higher than on
carloads"
Secretary Resing of the Commercial
club stated to an Eagle reporter that he
thought satisfactory rates would be made
The Santa Fe freight officials made tha
same error in making their implement
rates on June l that the Rock Island did.
and it is believed that the former com
pauy viii make a change in a few days.