The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-07-14
VIRGINIA RATES
ARE TO Be RAISED
Interstate Commerce Commission
Makes Ruling as to the Norfolk
and Western Railroad.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Special.-
The interstate Commerce Commission
yesterday ordered the Norfolk and
western Railway to make material
reductions in freight rates from Gin
clnnau to WinSton-Salem and Dur
ham, N. c., and also from Roanoke
and Lynchburg, Va, to the same
points. The order goes into effect on
october 1st and continues in force
for not less than two years.
The proceeding was brought by the
corporation Commission of North
Carolina, on behalf of itself and ship
perS and consumers in Durham and
Wlnston-Salem, and points on the
INES or the Norfolk and Western, in
termediate between Durham and
Lynchburg, Va, and Winston-Salem
and Roanoke. Va.
1t was alleged that the railways
charges on traffic included in classes
from No. l to 6, inclusive, in the
Southern classification. and on grain
and grain products, hay and packing
house products, in car loads from Chi
cago, East st. Louis, Louisville. Co
lumbuS and Cincinnati were unrea-
sonable and unjust; that the rates
were unduly preferential and discrimi-
natory, as compared with rates on
the same class of shipments from the
same points to Virginia cities: that
the rates on coal We're unjust and dis
oriminatory in favor Of Roanoke.
Lynchburg and other Virginia cities
also that the rates on lumber from
cinnati, Columbus and other points
were unjust.
Maximum Rates Fixed.
After a full hearing, the commission
has prescribed as the just and reason
ale maximum rates to be charged in
future on traffic between Roanoke and
Lynchburg to Winston-Salem and
Durham the following:
Per 100 pounds-Class No. I, 80
cents; No. ,, a cents; No. 8, 81 cents;
No. 4, % cents; No. 5, 21 cents; No. 6,
II cents; Glass a, Is cents; 3, IS
cents; II, % cents; X, 10 1-2 cents;
+, 80 cents per barrel; L. S1.6O a ton;
NJ, S1.S5 ton, and n OBJ, . $21, and
p S17, respectively.
The commission fixed as the Just
and reasonable maximum rates from
Cincinnati to Winston Salem and
Durham the following:
The Commissions Views.
Per 100 pounds-Class No. 1, 81
cents, No. =, Il cents; No. 8, 81 cents;
No. 4, AZ cents; No. 5, 81 cents; No. 6,
% cents.
The commission then says:
Assuming that the present method
of constructing through rates from
Chicago, st. Louis and Louisville, by
the, Louisville and Nashville and the
cleveland, Clnclnatl, chicago and St.
Louis railroads (Which also were
made defendant in the easel, and by
the Norfolk and Western Railway
from Columbus to Winston-Salem and
Durham, will be continued, il is our
view that such injustice in the rates
from these points OF origin TO the des-
tinations involved as may result from
the present excessive rates of the Nor
folk and Western Railway from Gin
cinnati, Will be removed, and that for
the present, at least, no order need be
made as to the traffic miVing from
said points of origin other than from
Cincinnati.
We find no justification for con-
demninS as unreasonable or other
wise unlawful the commodity rates on
flour, grain, hay and packinghouse
products eastbound in carloads, and
lumber westbound in carloads"
The reduction in the rates of classes
to from Cincinnati to the North
Carolina points is approximately 10
per cent. from the rates now charged.
The decreases ordered by the com
mission from Roanoke and Lynch
burg, Va, to the North Carolina cities
range from Is per cent. TO 25 per
cent