Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
The State Day by Day
CUTS TARIFF ON COAL.
Commission Reduces Rate From Supe
rior and Ashland on Omaha.

Commission Reduces Rate From Supe
rior and Ashland on Omaha.
The Wisconsin railroad commission
has issued orders reducing from Is to
25 per cent rates on hard and soft coal
shipped over the Omaha road from SUI
perior and Ashland to different cities
and villages in the northwestern part
Of the state requiring improvements
in the service on the Portage and
Greenwood branches of the Wisconsin
Central, dismissing the complaint of the
Souvenir Novelty company of Mari
nette against the American Express
company, because it refused to accept
packages addressed to the American
District Telegraph company for deliv-
cry, and denying motion by the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
company for rehearing in the switch
ing case brought against it by Harvey
Clark, superintendent Of the state
school for the blind at GAINESVILLE.
sued on petition of Senator J. H. Noble
of Eau Claire, the Baldwin Electric
Light and Fuel company of Baldwin
and the Superior board of trade. The
petitioners allege that the Omaha road
was charging excessive rates for trans
portation of hard and soft coal from
Superior and Ashland to various
points points in the northwestern part
of the state. Senator Noble claimed
that the road was charging less rate
from Superior and Ashland to st. Paul
than it was to Eau Claire, a considera-
BILE shorter distance.
The commission orders the rate on
hard coal from Superior and Ashland
to Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls to
be reduced from $1.85 to $1.40 per ton,
and from the same two points to Bald
win from $1.75 to $1.45 per ton. The
rate on soft coal is ordered reduced
to 81 ton to all three places. The or
der contains a schedule of maximum
rates that may be charged from Supe-
riOr to different points, which are as
follows: From Superior to Eagle
Point, Bloomer, New Auburn, Chetek,
coal and 81 cents for soft coal; Supe-
1iOr to Tuscobia, Sarona and Haugen,
S1.30 for hard and SO cents for soft !;
Superior to SpOOner and TregO, $1.25
for hard and 80 cents for soft; to
Lampson, $1.20 for hard and 80 cents
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and 80 cents for soft; to Minong, $1.10
for hard and 80 cents for soft; to Yves
colt and Gordon, 81 for hard and 70
cents for soft; to Scion Springs and
Sauntry, 80 cents for hard and 70
cents for soft; to Beebe and Bennett,
80 cents for hard and so cents for soft !;
to Hawthorne and Hines, 80 cents for
hard and 40 cents for soft; to Rock
mount, IS cents for hard and 40 cents
for soft; to South Range, so cents for
hard and 40 cents for soft; to Hanni.
bal, Donald and Sillhawn, $1.65 for
hard and $3.50 for soft; to Martins
Spur and Arnold, SLIGO for hard and
$1.25 for soft; to Holcomb, Cornell and
Burnett, $1.55 for hard and $1.20 for
soft; to Cobban Jim Falls, Arson and
Home Park, $3.50 for hard and $1.15
for soft; to Draper and Winter, $155
for hard and $120 for soft; to Crooked
Rapids and Radisson, $3.50 for hard and
$1.15 for soft; to Couderay and Var
nell, $145 for hard and $1.10 for soft
to Brentwood, Angus and Brill, $1.4O
for hard and 81 OK for soft II is also
ordered that the rates on coke be so
adjusted as to bear a proper relation
to the rates on hard and soft coal.-W