Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-27
some RATE PUZZLES
Northwest Iowa Does Not See
Relief on Coal Tariffs Under
Joint Rate Order
HIGHER THAN ONE YEAR AGO
Sioux City Complains Because lite
Factories Pay s225,ooo Annually =
Claim Made That Charges Should
be 100000 Less Per Year-GeneraI
State News.
State News.

| Sioux City, June 27.-eSome coal rate
puzzles We're presented to Sioux City
coal dealers today, when they began
to figure the cost of transporting coal
| from Iowa mines to their coal yards
here, under the joint blanket tariff or
dered yesterday by the Iowa railroad
commission.
! Some 400 tons of steam coal are con-
sumed in Sioux City daily, 164,25O tons
annually.
Approximately $4,000 tons Of soft
coal are used for domestic purposes.
| Paying rate of s137 per ton from
southern Iowa mines, the manufacture
ers of Sioux City are paying into the
railroad companies for freight on steam
coal alone 1925 02250 annually.
BY routing the coal over the lines of
the Burlington, which hauls the coal
by Omaha and Ashland for s1.27 per
ton, $16.425 is being saved annually.
The distance is 316 miles, and the rate
only about l cent per ton higher than
the Iowa distance tariff for 800 mile
hauls.
But the puzzle to consumers Of coal
is that before the Hepburn act was
passed and all rebates cut off, steam
coal was shipped to Sioux City for
$1.01 per ton. This tariff was not pub
lished, but coal dealers admit that the
steam coal rate to Sioux City was the
same as to Omaha, which is still $1.01.
Coal dealers here believe the rail-
roads can afford to haul steam coal to
Sioux City for s1.01, as they did it for
many years in the past This rate
would mean a saving Of $780, annu-
ally, and would probably mean an in
crease of 35 per cent in the consump-
ton of steam coal in Sioux City.
Figuring on the blanket joint rate
ordered by the Iowa railroad commits
sion, little relief is found by the coal
dealers. Secretary Ness of the Com
mercial club. who attended the meet
ing, believed that a saving of from 80
TO 40 cents per ton~would be made by
shipping the steam and lump coal
from Iowa mines by the short lines to
Des Moines and from Des Moines to
cent of the sum of the two local rates.
From Mystic, Iowa, distance of
425 miles. the Milwaukee and st. PAU
railroad. company, publishes thru
rate of $1.37 for steam coal and $176
for lump coal.
From Oskaloosa to Des Moines, dis
lance so miles, the local rate is So
cents. From Des Moines to Sioux City
the rate is .S1.02.5 a totsle of s1.60. Bas-
ing this gate on so per cent of the sum
of two locals. the rate from Oskaloosa
to Sioux City is 1929
Another puzzle is shown, however, in
figuring the rate on the blanket Joint
tariff basis from Abba to Sioux City,
over the Burlington and Milwaukee,
and st. Paul, and the thru Burlington
rate. The rate from Abba to Des
Moines is 60 cents. from Des Moines
to Sioux City s1.O2.5. The sum of the
two locals, s1,64 Basing on so per
cent of the two locals, the rate from
AlGa to Sioux City by the short line,
263 miles, is s1.32, while the thru rate
of the Burlington, by Omaha and Ash
land, 316 miles, is 1929
Coal men point to the discrimination
of eastern roads, hauling coal from
the docks of Milwaukee to Sioux City
as the worst feature of the Sioux City
roal rate situation. 1t is from these
docks and southern Illinois fields, that
the larger part of coal used for do
nestle purposes comes to Sioux City.
The rate from Milwaukee to Sioux City
is $40, While the companies publish
ing this rate haul coal to stations be-
tween Kingsley and Neville for 50. Goa!
is brought to Sergeant Bluff but five
miles below Sioux City for 1925 per
ton and is. hauled to Missouri Valley,
25 miles further from Milwaukee than
Sioux City, for 50 per ton.