The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17
PORT RATE CASES
 AWAIT DECISION
Georgia Railroad Commission
 Will Soon Take Action
WATER POWER AVAILABLE
State Geologist of Georgia Has Pub lished an Inventory of Water Power on the Rivers-Wealthy Man
 Leaves Estate to Wife.

Atlanta. June 16-(Speeial)-It is now quite probable that final decision will be reached by the railroad commission in the matter of port rate cases in which it heard testimony in May and arg ument on June and 10. by the latter part of this week.
 It is the present purpose of the rail- road commission. it Is stated, to take these cases up for action at its regular meeting Thursday, and probably then to decide them, or the decision may be de- layed until Friday or Saturday,. Mem bers of the commission have indicated that they would be ready to announce their finding the latter part of this week, and if they can come to a satisfactory conclusion, it will be promptly announced.
 There is all sorts of speculation as to what the commission will do with these cases, one of them involving a pro- posed reduction from 23c to 13c per 100 on special iron products from Savannah to Atlanta. and the other a reduction from S5c to 15c per 100 on green coffee in carload lots from the ports to Att lanta.
 Interesting contentious have been made on both sides, and it is question as to which has the better of the argument The common belief, nevertheless, is that the commission will probably decide ad- versely to the port rate petitions, and rumor has 1t the commission will stand three to two.
 Water Power of Georgia.
 Prominent attention has been attracted to the water powers of Georgia as the result of a recent request from Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot of the United States department of agriculture for 50 copies of the recently published ''inven- tory of the water powers of Georgia" prepared by State Geologist s. w Me- Callie.
 Tn this bulletin Mir Metallic deals with the water powers of the Savannah basin, the Ogeechee basin, the Atlamaha, the Apalachicola the Mobile and the Tennes- see basins, describing them in detail and indicating the possible horsepower which might be utilized.
 It is the purpose of MT. Pinchot, as stated in his letter, to place copy of this report in the hands of the chairman of the conservation commission in each of the 46 states. In concluding his let ter MT. Pinchot says Tt well demon- strates what can be done by these com missions in the various states"
 Big Estate Left.
 The late D. I. Carson of Atlanta, who died on June ', left an estate valued at s4O, ,000, all of which goes to his wife. Mir. Carson was a pioneer telephone man in the south, and, at the time of his death, held the position of secretary and treas urer of the Southern Bell Telephone com pany.
 Long Auto Trip.
 John J. Woodsde well known real estate man, will leave Washington, D. C., Monday morning in his big Thomas tour ing car for a trip into and through parts of Canada. He will be accompanied by his family. MT. Woodside and his party went to Washington by rail, but will make the trip from that city and re- turn in his automobile.
 Short Weight.
 It looks very much as if Atlanta's city council will enact the proposed short weight ordinance offered by Councilman F. J. Spratling Councilman Spratling has heard so many complaints against short weights given by certain retailers, that he thought the Atlanta consumers ought to hase protection.
 To that end he has prepared an ordi- nance under which the recorder may im- pose a penalty of s100 or 90 days or both upon any retailer dealer who misrepre- sents the weight of a package of food or any of the necessities of life. The pro- posed ordinance has met with great fa- vor, especially on the part of the con- sumers, and the indications are it will go