Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-08-11
Commission ORDERS
JOINT FREIGHT RATE
Kate to Be Effective on August
24th, is Order of Com
mission

The state railroad commission has
ordered that the railroads establish a
joint wheat rate, to become effective
August oath, the points of transfer
between the roads to be Spokane
Wallula and Hunts Junction.
In its findings of fact the commits.
sion says it was fully established al
the hearing in Colfax by the testi
mony there presented, that wheat i,
universally worth from II to 8 cent.
more bushel on Puget Sound thai
in Portland, and that the railroads, b,
refusing to agree to a joint rate
make it impossible for the farmer
living on the lines of the Oregon Rail
road and Navigation in Eastern Wash
ngton to reach the Puget Sound mar
kets. This constitutes injury and en-
titles the producers to relief.
As to the complaint of the flourin,
mill on the Puget Sound, the commits
sion also finds that they are entitle,
to relief on three grounds, namely: /
That what is known as "choice mil
ling wheat is grown in large quaint
ties along the lines of the Oregol
Railroad and Navigation in Easter
Washington; 2, that the refusal of tn
railroads to make joint rate make
it impossible for the Puget Soun
millers to purchase this wheat; and
that Portland buyers go on the lin
of the Northern Pacific and buy u
wheat early in the fall, cleanin
out this field and leaving the whea
along the Oregon Railroad and Navi
CATION lines to be bought up later, tn
millers on Puget Sound thus havin
no wheat in their own territory. an
being unable to purchase the whea
grown on the Oregon Railroad an
Navigation because they cannot pc
it delivered at Seattle or Tacoma.
The railroad commission therefor
makes the following order:
THAT the rate, rule and regulatio
by which wheat consigned from point
on the lines of the Oregon Railroa
and Navigation Company to Seattle
Tacoma, Everett and Bellngham
charged the sum of the two locals
be, and the same is hereby abrogate
and ordered discontinued.
:" 1t is further ordered and adjudgf
in lieu thereof, the rate to be her,
after charged for wheat from point
on the lines Of the Oregon RailroaI \
and Navigation Company, and de /
tined and consigned to Seattle, I'd \
coma, Everett and Bellingham, ll
carried over the lines of the Oregd \
Railroad and Navigation Company al \
the Northern Pacific Company lin
at joint rate not to exceed 1871 cen
per 100 pounds, and not to exceed ii
rate now charged by the Northeb
Pacific railway and the w. and C. Ct
for like freight and consigned fro
contiguous points on their lines to S h
attic, and that the rate to be charg
for wheat consigned from points
the line of the Oregon Railroad al
Navigation, and destined and co
signed to Seattle, Tacoma, Evere
and Belingham be shipped and tran
ported over the lines of the Gre
Northern Railway company shall
carried at joint rate not to excel /.
the rate now charged from contiguof 4
points by the Northern Pacific Cor \
pany for like freight destined to S 4
attle
The commission has also made
separate and further order grantii /,
the same terminal rates and joiFl
rates to Bellingham as are given ii i
Seattle, Tacoma and Everett on ha3
oats, barley and mill feed and Ii \
stock from Eastern Washington. Hlbl