The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-12-30
SCHEDULE OF
EXPRESS RATES
FOR THIS STATE CHANGED BY
SSiONERS.
UNIFORM MILEAGE SYSTEM
is ADOPTED AND RATES WILL
BE CONSIDERABLY LOWER.


commission a new schedule of express
rates was promulgated to apply to all
companies and all railroads of the
state.
The present rates are ordered dis
continued and the charges establish
ed upon a mileage basis which makes
all charges uniform for the same dis
tance, no matter in what part of the
state the shipment is made. Here
tofore charges west of the river have
been higher
The new rate offers a lower mini
mum rate for short distances but on
the basis of 100 miles it is a fair
average of the present charges.
The new schedule will not be ef-
fective until it has been accepted by
the companies, and perhaps not then,
until it is tested by. litigation in the
courts.
Action toward this end was precip-
itated by the course followed by the
Wells-Fargo company, which insisted
that it was not amenable to the re-
cent ruling of the commission COW
ering carrying charges by express
companies doing business on a stated
date. The company contended that
it was not in the state at that time,
having come later into the Milwau-
kee system, and that it could charge
as it pleased. 1t has done so and the
other companies have followed the
Now the commission will put into ef-
feet this new schedule to correct the
charges which the Wells-Fargo peo-
pie make.
A comparison of the rates which
are now being charged in the eastern
part of the state with the new sched-
ule shows them to be about the same,
but the reductions come in the trans
Missouri shipments. The American
is now getting a minimum of 35
cents for short hauls on the Omaha
road to Pierre and from 60 to 20
cents per 100 pounds. The same COM
pany on the Dakota Central gets a
minimum of 40 cents and 80 cents for
100 miles. From Oelrich to Belle
Fourche it collects so cents for 100
pounds 100 miles. For the same dis
tance the new schedule provides that
the charge shall be a minimum of 35
cents, or 65 cents for 100 miles for
100 pounds
On the western runs the rates will
have to be cut. The American now
charges on the Pierre-Rapid City and
Northwestern minimum of 40 cents
with a rate of $1.30 for 100 miles.
Taking the Wells-Fargo company
on the Canton to Chamberlain and the
Milbank to- Mobridge lines, the com
pany charges q minimum of so cents
now, with 90 cents the rate for 100
miles. Under the new rate the charge
will be 35 and 65 cents.
On the Puget sound extension the
same company gets s1.25 for 100
miles. On the C. r. I. e P. the Y. S.
Express company gets 40 and 60 cents
and the Great Northern 35 and so
cents, which will have to be revised
the one upward and the other down
ward.
On the M. & st. L. the Adams peo
pie are charging 35 cents and 70
to 80 cents, which latter will be re-
duced. On the c. B. e @. westward
into the Hills the Adams company is
now charging 40 cents and $14O, but
it all comes under the revision.
Herewith is the new schedule Of
rates as embodied in the new express
distance tariff No. 1 as promulgated
by the commissioners:
Applying to all express companies
doing business in South Dakota.
Governed by Official Express Classi-
fication No. 10, issued by F. G.
Airy, agent, and exceptions and sup
plements thereto, and reissues there
of.
This tariff not to apply to special
rates in force for transportation Of
cream, milk, poultry and general spe-
cials.
No rate to exceed sum o: locals by
shortest route via common points.
Shipments carried over two or more
lines Of railroad operated by one ex-
press company will be subject to the
above rates figured on continuous mi'e-
age.
When rates for exact distance are
not shown tho ratoa fnrr tho paYt