The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-08-10
JOINT RATE ORDERED
Effective August "a, But Rail.
roads May Adopt Sooner.
Spokane, WalIula and Hunts juno
ton Are Named as Trans
fer Points.

Olympia, Aug. 4.-The railroad com
mission announced that the Joint wheat
rate order was served on the railroads
today, and will become effective in TWEEN
~ days at the latest, although the i'm.
presslon prevails in the commission Of
ice that the roads will voluntarily put il
into effect before the expiration of the
legal limit.
In its findings OF fact the commission
says 1t was fully ESTABLISHED at the hear
ing III COlfaX by the testimony there
presented, that wheat il universally
worth from IL to 3 cents a bushel more
on Puget sound than in Portland. anG
that the railroads, by refusing to agree
TO JOINT rate, make it impossible for
the farmers living on the lines of the
oregon Railroad K Navigation in Eastern
Washington TO reach the Puget sound
markets. This constitutes injury. and
entities the producers to relief.
AS to the complaint Of the Touring
mills on Puget sound, the commission
also finds that they are entitled to relief
on three grounds, namely: ID That what
Is known as "chOice milling wheat" is
grown IN large quantities along the lines
OF the Oregon Railroad & Navigation in
Eastern Washington; (2) that the re-
fnsal OF the railroads TO make Joint
rate makes it impossible for the Puget
sound milers to purchase this wheat:
and (3), that Portland buyers 60 on the
line OF the Northern Pacific and buy IN
wheat early in the fall, cleaning out this
heid and leaving the wheat along the
Oregon Railroad K Navigation lines to
be bought up later, the millers on Puget
sound thus having no wheat in their own
territory, and being unable TO purchase
the wheat grown on the Oregon Railroad
4 Navigation because thev cannot get
il delivered at Seattle or Tacoma.
The railroad commission therefore
makes the following order:
That the rate, rule and regulation by
which wheat consigned from points on
the lines OF the Oregon Railroad & Navi-
CATION Company to Seattle, Tacoma,
Everett and Bellingham is charged the
sum of the two locals, be, and the same
is, hereby abrOgated and ordered dis
cOntinued.
1T is further ordered and adiudged
in lieu thereof the rate to be hereafter
charged for wheat from points on the
lines OF the Oregon Railroad & Naviga
tiOn Company, and destined and con-
signed to Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and
Bellingham, be carried over the lines of
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Com
pany and the Northern Pacific Com
pany's lines at joint rate not to ex
ceed 19A cents per 100 pounds, and not
to exceed the rate now charged by the
Northern Pacific railway and the ". &
e. Ry. Co. for like freight and consigned
from contiguous points on their lines
to Seattle, and that the rate to be
charged for wheat consigned from points
on the line of the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation, and destined and consigned
to Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and Belling-
ham be shipped and transported over
the lines Of the Great Northern Railway
Company shall be carried at a Joint rate
not to exceed the rate now charged from
contiguous points by the Northern Pa
cific Railway Company for like freight
destined to Seattle"
The commission has also made a sepa-
rate and further order granting the
same terminal rates and Joint rates to
Bellingham as are given to Seattle, Ta-
coma and Everett on hay, oats, barley
and mill feed and live stock from East
ern Washington.