The Cairo bulletin., 1910-02-09
MISSISSIPPI RIVER
TO BE INCLUDED AS CARRIER IN
SCHEDULE OF RATES
NEW DEPARTURE.
Former Official OF Illinois Central
Traffic Manager OF MisSiS-
sippi Valley Trans
portation Co.

| St. Louis, Feb. S.-A remarkable
ideDarture from old time methods mas
lust been made by the Mississippi
VALLEY Transportation Company, the
lnAw steel barge line of which Mr w.
X. Kayanuagh is president in the ap-
nOintment of MI j. r. Peachey "a
eneral traffic manager. The tasi
twaieh is given Mir peachy Is TO PIE.
tuare schedules of rates which snail
iaclcde the Mississippi as carrier
cart OF the way in freight movements
that circle the world. In the old days,
aud up to the present time, this has
been almost without exception true;
he Mississippi was merely a Garner
ui local freight Grain for export
vas carried on bills which read from
Kansas City TO St Louis. or from ST.
Louis TO New Orleans Flour from
Minneapolis, wherever its destination,
was carried on local bill from ST,
Paul to St Louis, and lad TO be trans
ferred and re-billed and pay the full
local rates az every transfer point.
Nearly all freight was carried by the
consigner down TO the landing,
dumped on the leyee and left 10 await
the boat When the boat came along
the clerk made rate, wrote a hasty
receipt, accepted the cargo and took
il on the way, 10 be dumped off at
some other landing and receipted for
by landing keeper The new com
pany does not intend to do business
in any such haphazard way.
I Mr.. Peachy comes to the new COM
pany from a long service in the lii
uos Central, in which he was closely
allied with Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish. and
his experience during most OF his
life has been in the making of rates
for commodities which moved be
tween Chicago ana st. Louis on the
one hand, and New Orleans on the
other, over a railway parallel with
ard competing with the Mississippi
50 that he Is thoroughly familiar
with the traffic which the new line
will have to handle and the competi-
tive conditions which it viii have to
meet His long training in this ser
vice is a considerable asset to the
barge line
/ Railroads cc.Operste.
Many railroads have already signi.
fed their intention Of establishing
proportional rates with the new barge
line, and there is no doubt that pra"
tically every railroad crossing on the
river will become port of inte.-
! change, where freight is taken OF
the railroad by the use of efficient
and economical machinery and placed
! III a barge to be carried one hundre
or one thousand miles by water ami
then delivered TO another railroad o.
to the consignee. Export shipments
for South America and for Asia. from
Chicago and other manufacturing
cities, will be handled part way by the
river. and there is no port in tha
world to which a man may not de
liver his goods over the Mississippi
VALLEY transportation Company's
barges, and out to sea from New Or
leans,
I! Mr.. PeachS great task on which
he enters with eagerness, is that Of
compiling rates which shall be at
the same time satisfactory to the
various interests concerned His pol.
icy viii be conservative, and yet !.
will be such as to attract to the bargc
line not only the bulky commoditie'
which ordinarily have sought the
crude transportation offered by the
river, but also the high grade manu-.
featured goods which pay higher
freghts, and which have heretofore
been the exclusive property OF tnc
railroads. Tbs vii be long and a
difficult problem. bit a sufficient staff
vii be secured to assist Mr. Peachy
in the work
Prospective shippers have already
begun to lombard the new barge linc
with inquiries Tor their rates, and 2
general Spondence OF tails cha'
acter mas been invited by the Official
OF the company.