Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1908-09-09
SANTA f ROAD
ACCUSED As
UNFAIR
Company's Rates Said
To Be Unjust To
Prescott
Special to the Journal Miner

the Arizona Brewing Company today
filed a complaint against the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and
the Santa Re, Prescott and Phoeni 4
Railroad, 10 recover S,762.O6, alleged
Overcharges On freight between March
81, 1906, and June :, 1908, and TO com.
pei II cessation Of alleged unjust and
cxtortionate rates.
the complaint, which was today re.
Commission, alleges gross discrimins.
tions against the manufacturing inter.
csts Of Prescott IN favor Of those of
Albuquerque. Kansas City, Chicago,
Los Angeles and San Francisco, and
offers figures which on their face seem
TO convict the railroad defendants Of
the injustice alleged. The commission
will probably hear the ease during the
coming fall session in California and
may sit in Prescott, rs a determined
effort to that end is being made.
The complaint after setting forth
that plaintiff is u corporation organic.
ed under the laws of the territory Of
Arizona for the manufacture. ship.
mcnt and sale of beer. etc, and that
the defendants are corporations sub.
iect To the act providing for the rcgu-
lation OF commerce, approved February
4. 1887, and subsequent acts amenda
tory thereof, proceeds:
Petitioners allcge that for the man.
ufacturc Of each 100 barrels Of beer
they require, among other things, ap.
proximately 400 pounds Of grits, 1890
pounds Of malt, and because these com
moditios are not produced or manufac
tured generally in the southwest, petit
toner is obliged 10 purchase and snip
same TO Prescott over defendant y lines
from places more or less remote, to.
wit: malt from Chicago and Chicago
territory. M described in defendant =
tariffs, and from San francisco, Cali.
forDia; and grits from ~. Joseph, Mis-.
sour.
Petitioner alleges that in the man
ufacturc and sale of beer in Prescott
and other points in Arizona, distant
from ~ TO pos miles, as will herein.
after be more fully set forth, they are
in competition with breweries located
in Oregon, California, Texas, New Mex.
leo and Wisconsin, which brcweries,
by reason Of much lower rates granted
and maintained by the A. T.. 4 y. +.
Ry, and other lines of railroad on
grits. hops and other material and
supplies, entering into tne manufacture
and distribution of beer, are enabled
and do produce beer at much less cost
than the petitioner, who is greatly in.
jured by the things nercln complained
of -
The complaint then proceeds with an
extended table of rates, showing clear.
~ the determinations practiced
against the Prescott Brewery in favor
of tar distance concerns. For instance.
The rate on carload lots of malt
from Chicago and Chicago territory to
Prescott Is sl13 cents per hundred
pounds; distance. 1885 miles.
The rate to Los Angeles, 2265 miles,
or 1870 miles further haul. is only 65
cents hundred u discrimination
against Prescott Of ~ cents, or over
100 per cent.
Still more discriminating is The rate
TO San Francisco, % cents for a haul
IA miles longer than the haul to Pres
cott.
The rate to Albuquerque. i5s miles
shorter than to Prescott, in only so
tents, aud to NJ Paso. only 2O5 miles
shorter. 10 cents, or just third for
eight tenths Of the haul TO |
Prescott. The rate from San Francis.
20 10 Kansas City, Albuquerque and
III Paso IL 90 cents hundred for malt. |
The rate to Prescott from San Fran
CISCO, 1861 miles shorter haul than To |
Kansas city, IL ~ cents q hundred
pounds, or eighteen cents more.
The rate On grits from 81. Joseph, |
Mo-. to California intermediate points |
IL 90 cents per 100 pounds, the rate 10 |
Prescott, from 500 10 200 miles short. |
'r haul. IL ~ cents.
The rate on beer kegs from Chicago
10 California intermediate points is
sl.25. The rate 10 san Francisco Is
fll0. The rate To Prescott il Sl.3s.
Practically the one third rate prevails
IN all shipments to NJ Paso as compar.
I'd with the Prescott rates, and, as
stated above, the distance is eight.
ientas Of the Prescott haul.
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