The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-01-25

FlckieS,- -..-11Z % II
oIdrcn,-- - LIZ % IL
Tobacco, l.. C.. L.. POO 1877. 1856
Furniture. (. Iii rs 1929
Non1cleS,. lily ~ 84H2
Screens, W1re,.. ..143 46 81
Mating, straw or grass 1877 10 lis
oHeep up. liz 90 ooH2
AppIeS,.- :. liz % IL
Electrical machinery, LII 70 84k
Potatoes. =. 80 "a So
Wire n nails,.. ..S2 63 70
That the rates on both class goods
and commodities from all commercial
centers are upon the same relative
basis as the foregoing to points nam
ed and similar points compared to
the rates to Roswell, Hagerman, Ar
tesla and Carlsbad.
Compliments allege that the dis
lance from st. Louis to Roswell, Ha-
german, Artesia and Carlsbad is up
on the average about one hundred
miles further than the average dis
lance from ST. Louis to the points TAX
ing the Colorado common point rates
and about two hundred miles further
than the average of the points taking
the Texas common point rate, and
that estimated upon the same bases
of earnings per ton mile and per car
mile, the rates to Roswell, Hagerman,
Artesia and Carlsbad, are from TWEEN
ty-five e cent to fifty per cent high
er than the said Texas and Colorado
common point rate. THAI the same
comparison applies to all of the rates,
herein complained of, those which are
set forth, being but examples of the
same.
That the rates on coal from Tri1i-
dad, Colorado, is 1925 per ton while
the rates from the Indian Territory
to Texas points an equal distance, is
as low as 1925 per ton, and from Col
orado to Texas points is fixed upon
the basis of ole-half cent per ton mile
to o Worth. That the Santa Fe
Railway and the Colorado and South
ern, and the Fort Worth and Denver
City Railway refuse to max a thru
route and thru rate for shipments of
coal from the Colorado Coal Mines
at Trinidad and elsewhere over the
Colorado and Southern and the Fort
Worth and Denver City Railways, via
Amarillo, thence over the Pecos Val
ley Lines to Roswell, Hagerman, Arte-
STA and Carlsbad, and that the sum
OF local rates on coal via, that route
are unjust and unreasonable, and that
the rate of 1925 per ton is unjust and
unreasonable to the amount of at
least $1.25 per to1
That the rate on grain and grain
products from Kansas and Oklahoma
grain fields are unjust and
able, the rate on these products from
Wichita, Kansas, to Roswell. Hager-
man, Artesia and Carlsbad, being as
follows: Flour, 81; wheat, SIS; corn.
and oats, As; whereas the ate to Pc
cos, Texas, one hundred and sixty
Jour miles further, is as follows:
Flour, 49k; wheat 43; corn and oats,
35h. That the rates from all other
points on line Of defendants railroads
on grain n grain products to Ros-
well, Hagerman, Artesia and Carls-
bad are likewise unjust and unrea,
sonable. The rate on salt from Hutch
11son, Kansas, to Roswell, Hagerman
Artesia and Carlsbad are likewise I'M
just and unreasonable.
That n rates on lumber, sash,
doors, shingles. and articles of a sim
liar nature from the lumber producing
districts of Texas, Louisiana and Ar
kansas, r unjust and unreasonable
to sucn an extent as to retard build
ing and to seriously limit and Grip
pie the trade in such articles at Ros-
well, Hagerman, Artesia and Carls.
bad, and the relatively lower rates
from the said lumber districts to
points on the Texas and Pacific Rail
way from Big Springs westward, n
On he Fort Worth, Denver City Rail-
way, and points on the Pecos Valley
Railway in Texas gives to the locali-
ties, referred to, an undue and an
unreasonable preference and advan-
tage over the localities and traders in
such articles, at Roswell, Hagerman,
Artesia and Carlsbad. n subjects
the latter to an unjust and
able prejudice and disadvantage grow
ing out of the u~nreasonabIy higher
rates On said articles which they are
compelled to pay, in violation of the
act to regulate commerce. That the
rates on cement from lola and other
Kansas points to Roswell, Hagerman.
Artesia and Carlsbad are likewise I'm
just and unreasonable to the extent
of 80 per cent.
That the rates of freight on wool,
which is extensively produced, il the
country adjacent to, as well as in.
the Pecos Valley in New Mexico, to
St Louis. Chicago and Boston, the
markets to which wool is shipped
from the Pecos Valley are unjust and
unreasonable and are twenty-five per
cent. higher than is just and reason
able.
That the proportionate rates on snip
melts of wool eastward from st. Louis
or Chicago, to Boston and the bal
a7ce of the rate which goes to make