Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-10-05
ROSWELL AGAIN ON
TRAIL Of THE
SANTA FE
ANOTHER CRUSADE IN
REDUCTIONS IN RATES
Commercial Club Proposes to.
See That PecoS Valley Does
Not Get the Worst of Il.
Through Mere TechnicaItieS

Especial Dispatch to the Morning Journal.l
Roswell. y NJ oct 4'-The peeos
valley believes that in snlte OF the re-
cent order OF the interstate commerce
commission lowering freight rates
into this section that the Santa Fe
railway is getting around the PROPOSE
ton through technicalities Conse-
quently the Roswell Commercial club
Is going To take up the crusade again
in earnest and see To IL that the rail-
way company cannot dodge the issue.
Through oversights on the part OF the
men who signed the petition to the
commerce commission. and defects In
the order issued. the people have
been up against freight rates but lit
tie more reasonable than of old. The
people. however. are considerably In
earnest in the matter. and are going
To keep the matter so hot that the
company cannot get out through any
technical loophules. The Roswell Rec
ord today says.
For several days the secretary Of
the club has been preparing tables
showing that the rates are a great
deal higher, per mile. into Roswell
than into Amarillo. and these tables
will be used In securing the reduc-
tons A peaceable method Will be
adopted first Traffic Manager -. l..
Myers has been asked to meet the
clubs representatives here this week
and at this meeting an attempt will
be made To get the reductions that
are believed 10 be due. II this attempt
fails the club VIII bring another suit
before the interstate commerce COM
mission. II this suit is brought, evers
article shipped in and out of the val
ley VIII be included.
The Officer of the club who have
been doing tais work are now thor
oughly advised as TO railroad rates,
and are prepared 10 carry on their
case better than they were the first
time. They will not stop until Roa-
well has as fair freight rate as 9TH
er localities.
How Dodging l. Done.
Examples of the lodging that Is
being done by the railrond are: First
in the case OF Chicago, as a shipping
point The commission did not make
a specific rate from this point, leav-
ing Il for the railroad 10 make a pro-
portlonate rate While the railroad
did make a slight reduction from CHI
cago. they are still charging more. per
mile from Chicago than other points,
Second, In the case OF Galveston as a
point The commissions
finding was for a big reduction on
lumber from beaumont. IL meant, /
the Beaumont district I
for very little lumber Is started out /
Of Beaumont as an original shipping !
point. But the railroad interprets the I
report literally. and grants the reduc- 4
tion from the town OF Beaumont /
alone. on account Of this technical (
the lumber dealers In the I
beaumont district can ship only small I
quantities OF lumber to Roswell on
the new rate. because there is not 1
enough lumber In the town of Beau
mont 10 supply the trade. They can
not get the rate from the logging |
camps on the little branch railroads |
that should come under the ruling. |
There are many more similar eva
sions
The reductions which went into ef- 4
'ect september LIST amounted to an /
average OF 21 Ia cents from Chicago, +
3 a cents from Kansas city. ls "a !
sents from st. Louis, and about nine
'ents from Galveston.