The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-09

stoves all rail from Chicago by way
Of Ell, Paso, Tex, to Mexico City over
the Mexican Central railway, 2,S55
miles of haul, the class rate Is $4,29.6O
on the car and on the one stove 1t Is
$1165, but special car rate Is put In
making the actual rate 1854 or $24 less
than to Pecos, Tex. Thus, the Santa
Fe finds 1t can deliver to foreign
line and divide the rate on 1855 mile
haul $24 cheaper than the same goods
can be hauled little over half the dis
tance all on their own line. And Mr..
Paul Morton tells us our rates are, OF
themselves, reasonable.
But let us go back to the main line at
Newton, Kan, and continue our car
west. To Hutchinson, 693 miles from
Chicago the car rate is $144 and the one
stove $4.55, while the rate on car OF
sugar is $96. Compared with sugar the
car of stoves has, according to their
classification, an oyer-charge OF SAB
and that is true of any merchandise
to which they assign fifth class rates.
To Great Bend, 744 miles from Chicago,
the rate is $151.2O, and out on the
branch to Scott City, 120 miles further,
the rate is $18480 and car OF sugar
begins to crawl back to its class rate
for its rate to Scott City is $172.80.
The rate to Dodge City, S27 miles from
Chicago, is same as the Scott City rate
on stoves, but the sugar rate is $160.S0.
From Dodge City west through Cool
idge on western edge Of Kansas and to
r oi, IN Cn1n mil
cago and on to Pueblo, Trinidad and
Denver the rate is blanket" one,
or the same rate, viz, $184.8O. To
Ration, N. NJ, 1,134 miles from Chicago
the stove car rate is $223.20, the same
as to Old Mexico gateways. To Las
Vegas, 1,245 miles from Chicago, the
rate is $292.80, and the same to Santa
Fe, Lamy or to Albuquerque, 1,S77
miles of haul, and on the one stove It
is $7.25. To Rincon, N. NJ, 1854 miles,
the car rate is $292.80, but on the one
stove it is 50. To Deming, 54 miles
from Rincon on branch, the rate is
1886 or $72 more thanaif hauled 2,855
miles to Mexico City in Old Mexico, or
$36 more than If hauled from New
York to San Francisco. From Rincon,
II miles further to El Paso on the
same line in the same direction, the
rate is $22320. Suppose an effort Is
made to ship stoves or to ship any
fifth class commodity from Eel Paso as
the point of origin for our shipment n
miles to Rincon, N. M, the rate for
"a 900 pounds would be $10560. II we
ship from Ell Paso less than 400 miles
to Las Vegas, N. NJ, the rate Is $252,
or within $12 of the rate from Chicago
to Mexico City over the same haul,
more than times the distance and
without naming these facts to his read
ers, Mr. Paul Morton tells us rates
are, per Sc, reasonable. They assure
us they try to build up business on
their lines, locally, and invite us west.
! Let us again go back to the main line
to Laguna, N. NJ, ], ,443 miles from Chi
cago, and the freight on our car OF
stoves is $3.50 and on the one stove
$10.75. The rate to Laguna from the
nearest Pacific Coast point 800 miles,
is $12 more than though the car was
hauled and division made with foreign
| lines from Harrisburg, Pa, over east
ern roads via Chicago and the Santa
Fe road to Los Angeles, 1896 miles OF
haul. Gallup is on the west edge OF
New Mexico, 80 miles nearer the Pa
cifc coast than is Laguna, but the
rates are the same from the west as
to Laguna. From Chicago to Gallup
our car is $439.20 and on the one stove
$12.S5. To Flagstaff, Ariz., 1,721 miles
from Chicago, and to Ash Fork, ,778
miles, the car stove rate is S444. II we
ship down the branch to Phoenix 1885
miles from Chicago, the car stove rate
is $487.20, and to Kelvin, 331 miles
from Ash Fork the rate becomes
S523.20, almost double the amount and
! 1000 miles less haul than to the City
, of Mexico. Are these exactions as tt
rate made by the Santa Fe road to re
imburse it for rebates to the Colo
RADIO, Fuel and Iron company and t,
, the Morton brothers, salt dealers II
Kansas?
From Flagstaff west through Seiig-
man, Ariz The Needles, and Barstow
Calf, the blanket" rate on our car OF
stoves is $1.85 per hundred pounds, OF