The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-13
ABOUT RAILROAD RATES.

-'1SI III SOHT lecturer Oh
transportation at Johns Hopkins IN
iversity, has collected some interest.
ing figures bearing on railroad
freight charges. It appears from
these figures that the freight on
articles in common use is not as
great as people have believed.
shoe manufacturer located on
the Mississippi river Est. LOUIS pays
l4e freight on the material which
enters into a pair of shoes. To place
that pair of shoes on the market any
where between the Atlantic and Pa.
cific oceans, the freight charge is
less than three cents. This is the
maximum, and the charge is way
under cents TO some points.
a popular shoe made in the east
and sold for So and $3.50 per pair,
according to the notion OF the re.
taller, bears a freight charge of less
than IL cents to the Missouri river.
This shoe is sold +. o. b. by the manu-
facturer for s188 per pair. fraction
less than sissy delivered on the
Missouri river.
An axe made in Ptttsburg and sold
In Kansas City for 81 or s1:24 pays
a freight charge of cents: 80
cent paddock shade above a half
cent; an IS gallon galvanized tub
selling for 50 cents TO 81, two and
three-tenths cents; 200 pound
stove, selling for SIS to $40. a
cents; 30 cent washboard, less than
half a cent; a dozen clothes pins, five
ten thousandeths OF a cent.
In the retail price Of suit of
clothes worn by man VINO lives on
me Mississippi river, there is a
freight charge OF from cents to 8
cents possibly 10 cents on the Mis-
souri, river. In the price OF calicos
or ginghams the freight charge is
from one-fftieth 70 one-dfth OF a cent
per yard The freight charge included
N the retail price Of LIE entire ap-
parel Of 2 fully dressed man or WON
an living in the middle west. is from
70 - cents; possibly cents TO 90
cents on the Missouri river.
An ordinary dining room suite, TIA
BILE, sideboard, six chairs and china
closet pays freight of 75c 10 S. from
factory in the east 70 home in the
middle vest: parlor suite (sofa and
four chairs)' 50 cents 70 81; bedstead
and its equipment, Is cents to $50.
Families In the middle and south
ern Mississippi valley. who use north
ern -four, pay, IN the retail price. a
freight charge of &c to Sc for so
pound sack possibly It would be a
fraction more on the Missouri river.
Wool carried from the remote west
to New England. To Ne manufactured,
and back to the Mississippi river, in
the form Of cloth, pays al told, a
freight charge of not to exceed 5
cents per yard. This cloth is sold
/ to the consumer at s1.50 per yard AID
upwards.
A pair Of rubber overshoeg costs the
4 consumer, say, IS cents. In this the
freight charge is less than one and
ntne-tenths cents, including the trans
portation of the raw rubber from
South America Perhaps it would be
a shade more on the Missouri river.
A barrel Of -four sells for say So in
4 Boston. For carrying the wheat from
the farm to the mill (Minneapolis.
possibly the Missouri river tool, and
for carrying the -four from the mill
TO Boston the railway receives 81
cents; the whole trip from farmer
4 to consumer, IS cents.
Refined sugar selling for So per 100
pounds at Atchison pays 80 cents from
the refinery.
Eggs shipped from the Mississippi
river to. New York pay freight charges
of ] cent TO tx cents per dozen and
from 1000 miles further west about