Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-13
CASH FOR RAILROAD ADS
Coin will be Medium Of Exchange With
Papers After First
NO MORE TRANSPORTATION CONTRACTS
Interstate Commerce Commission
: Ruling VIII be strictly Adhered
TO, Say the Passenger on
cIaIs OF Roads.

Gold dollars Is what the railroads will
nav the newspapers for advertising after
January /, according to the decision of the
Interstate Commerce commission. This
means the railroads will not give the news
papers transportation in pay for advertis-
ing. but will pay in good coin OF the realm.
Gerrit Fort. assistant general passenger
agent of the Union Pacific, said Wednes-
day morning:
"our advertising for the coming year
will be strictly on a cash basis with all
newspapers and magazines. No advertising
contracts of any description will be made
except upon a cash basis"
L. w. wakeley general passenger agent
OF the Burlington said
THE Burlington is now busy making
contracts with several hundred editors In
Nebraska Colorado, Wyoming, South Da-
kota, Montana and Kansas Prices have been
received and the advertising department 10
now sending out contracts where the quo
cations have been accepted. The terms are
absolutely cash and no subterfuge Of book
keeping will be resorted to by the Burling-
ton road. for II is to be a cash proposition
on both sides. The passenger department
has a certain appropriation and is under
taking to make contracts so the approprta-
ton will go pro rata to all newspapers IN
stead OF spending large amounts In the
large city dailies and ignoring the country
papers. All papers have been gwen
show and where the quotations were salts
factory, contracts are being offered
ValIey-LincOIn Motor.
BEGINNING December II the Union Pacific
will nut motor car No. In service between
Valley and Lincoln for the holidays the
car to continue in operation until January
r The car will leave Valley In the morn
ing upon the arrival of No. 10 from Omaha
and will reach Valley in time to connect
with No. IA in the afternoon.
New Live stock Rates.
E,nective January / the Union PACING
will inauR,,rate a new system Of charges
| for the transportation of live stock to and
! from, the west. The system will be changed
| from the dollars per car rate now IN use
to the cents per hundred system. II VIII
! be made to apply to all live stock except
! transcontlnental business Under TINS sys-
/ tenn the shipper will pay for what he loads
] Some of the larger shippers who have been
overlooking the cars will have to pay more
while many will be benefited by the chahse'
Union Pacific increases.
/ The financial statement of the Union Pa
bac system for the month Of October shows
the same continued gain that the annual
report for the previous year revealed. The
increase in mileage operated during Octo-
Der was 1873 miles and the gross receipts
were s7,O4s.96s 50, an increase OF $3Ss, 575 q
over the corresponding month in 1905. The
receipts over taxes and expenses for the
month were So, 532, S23 "a. an increase over
the same month last year Of S16o,Ss5.46. The
Increase for the four months ending Octo-
Der 81 over the same four months last year
in gross receipts was $1,s2s, 26SN and In re-
ceipts over expenses and taxes $sS9,765.A.