The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-22
RAILROAD NEWS.
Some Sweeping Reductions in
Rates Are Ordered.
Commerce Commission Takes a
Whack at Lumber Rates.
ARECUTFIVEPER CENT
In Eastern Section and Much
Lower West of the Mi, souri,.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.

Sweeping reductions in lumber rates
west of the Missouri river. and a 5
per cent reduction in the advanced
rates in the east, as we'll as other
changes in the tariff, are ordered un-
der decisions recently announced by
the interstate commerce commission.
In the cases OF the Oregon and
Washington Lumber Manufacturers
association against the Union Pacific
and other roads, Pacific Coast Lumber
Manufacturers associations and 9TH
ers against the Northern Pacific and
others, and the Southwest Washington
Lumber Manufacturers association
against the Northern Pacific, involv-
ing a general advance in lumber rates,
in many cases 20 and % per cent, from
North Pacific coast territory to points
east thereof, which became effective
November last, the commission makes
a geographic decision in it's action. On
the ground of unreasonableness it or
ders restoration of the previous rates
west of a line drawn from Pembina.
n. D., through Great Forks, Council
Bluffs, Kansas City and Sioux City to
Port Arthur, Tex, along the Kansas
City Southern railway, and including
all points east of that line (which now
take the same rates as any point be-
tween and including Sioux City and
Kansas City"
A part of the increase to the more
distant markets lying east Of the Mis-
souri, river is permitted to stand.
Differential rates from Spokane rate
group points, Montana-Oregon group
rate points and Hood river, Ellensburg
and Leavenworth districts, which lie
east of the Cascade mountains, en-
bracing parts of Washington and Ore
gon, and all of Idaho, to eastern terri
tory are established under decision
in the case of Potlatch Lumber COM
pany ct al VS.. the Northern Pacific
and other roads. Rates from the
Spokane district are ordered lower
than from the Pacific coast and the
commission directs more uniform diff
\ferentials under the coast rates than
Nere in effect prior to last November.
In the case of the Western Oregon
Lumber Manufacturers association
vs.. the Southern Pacific, the commits
sion decides that the advance of IS per
ton from all mills in the Willamette
valley. not including Portland, is I'M
just and unreasonable. that from both
the east and west banks south of Ctr-
Wallis, the rate should not exceed So. 40
per ton and upon the west bank north
of Corvallis $685. per ton. Because of
the water rate the Portland rate is not
reduced.
In the case of the Pacific Coast Man.
ufacturers' association against the
Northern Pacific and other roads, the
commission declines TO establish an
other through route from Washington
TO Colorado common points and east
ern destinations. 1t requires, however
the Northern Pacific railway, the
Northern Pacific Terminal company OF
Oregon the Oregon Railroad & Navi-
cation company, the Oregon Short Line
and the Union Pacific to establish
through rates for lumber from the
Northern Pacific line in Washington
north of Portland. as far as Seattle
through Portland. to Ogden and Salt
Lake City and Utah common points
and 40 cents per hundred weight rate