Arizona republican., 1909-03-26

$5.2O; grain. s62O; flour. $s.2O Anoth CT statement gives rates on the fore. going commodities from Phoenix tC points on the s. F., F. x P and it. lines, compared with rates on othel lines for similar distances.
 Another statement thus compares To- cal class rates out of Phoenix to points on the s. F., P. & P. in comparison with the same class rates on other lines for similar distances. The com parisOn is invariably in favor of the former road.
 Before presenting the statements Mir Hastings offered several corrections of
 rates which had been mentioned by
 the compliments in the matters of
 rates on rice, cereals household goods
 brewers grits. beeswax. malt. potatoes
 and others. In regard to cereals. he
 said that special rate had been made
 to Prescott several years ago with the
 understanding that Phoenix merchants
 might make use of it. The rate was
 made that the cereals might be kept | there during the warm months, and that local merchants might make use of it tO bring the cereals here in such . quantities as they desired The rate. it was shown. had long been a paper
 rate as were many of the others. Re- ! garding water competition and its ef-
 feet on Phoenix rates. Mir. Hastings
 showed that merchants here had re- ceived goods through the nearest port
 over the American Hawaiian line. He
 took up the question of vehicles and minimum weights. showing that a cer-
 tain advantage was allowed in the way
 of mixed shipments which partly over
 came the lower minimum.
 ] Mir. Norton, remarking upon the rate on citrus fruits from intermediate coast ! points. said that the valley was doing ! very well in that it was allowed the same rate as from California inter mediate points to the eastern market. where Arizona oranges brought twice as much as California oranges. It was late in the afternoon when the statements were finally submitted. and Messrs. Costigan and Jones, after addressing q few questions to MT. Hastings. asked the privilege of exam ming the documents at their leisure.
 A Busy Full Day.
 The session began with the cross examination of Assistant General Traffic Manager Chambers. IL went over the field traversed the day be- fore, but developed nothing new, though in reply to questions by Mir. Costigan, MT Jones or the special examiner, the testimony on many points was elaborated. Tine remark able familiarity of the witness with the entire field of traffic was dis closed.
 Mir. Chambers, in reply to a ques- ton, said that practically all articles carried by all rail routes could be and were carried by sea. On the subject of water competition he said that it was increasing 50 rapidly, including more articles than formerly. furnish ing such ample accommodations and so shortening the time between the Atlantic and the Pacific that the sit .uation had become extremely perpleX- ing to the railroads.
 Mir Chambers said that generally, though not always. railroad rates fol- lowed sea rates and were from 40 per cent to GO Der cent higher. There had. however, in the case of the re- cent lllfItel@t pA eNlAi' UT lAAAAeAA AsNA's been no preceding increase of ocean rates. The advance of railroad rates had been based on the increased cost of operation. The advance, said Mir Chambers, had been in measure experiemntal and he doubted whether it could be maintained.
 The statement had been made by Mir. Jones, traffic manager of the Commercial club that the western rate from the interior was in some instances lower than the rate from New York. Mir. Chambers was asked whether in such cases the rate was based on water competition. As a general thing, he promptly replied there was no such case. The grain rate which had been instanced, he said had nothing to do with the case. It had been made low to move grain from the middle west. If it had been correspondingly low in the east it could have moved no grain from any point east of the Missouri river. The rates on cement were shown to be; New York, soc. Chicago, i5c; the Missouri river, 40c. MT. Chambers said that the rate was really 35c from a Kansas district. Another element had entered into this rate, foreign on the Pacific coast. In that respect the rate was peculiar.
 The prosecution had spoken of the rate on cotton drills from Kansas l City. Mir Chambers said no cotton | drills had ever been shipped from l Kansas City The rate had been put l in to encourage cotton manufactur- ing in Texas; had failed of that re- suit and had never been used, though | if was still carried in the tariffs.
 Another apparent instance Of lower rate from the interior was the rate on household goods. This, MT. Chambers showed, was n part Of the plan to encourage emigra- ion to the west, was a companion niece to the emigrant passenger rate.
 So. in all these cases of the ap- ,arent lower rate from interior points o Pacific coast terminals. NIT. Cham