Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-08-10
FREIGHT
FOR SANTA FE
All Inter. Rocky Mountain
Points Benefited by
Formal Order
IN EFFECT ON NOVEMBER IS
Coast Points Are Favored Be-
cause of Water Com.
petition.
tBy Special Leased wi,e to Now uex,,,n,

Washington, D. C., Aug. 10.-F6rmaj
orders in the Pacific coast freight
rate cases, supplementing the deci.
sions rendered two weeks ago, were
issued today by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Material reductions in both class
and commodity freight rates are
made from Atlantic coast points OF
origin to inter-Rocky Mountain cities
!-spokane, Wash; Reno, New. Phoe-
NIX, Ariz., and others similarly situaf.
ed-aithough the carriers are permit.
tea on account of water competition
TO exact rates somewhat less to Pa
enc coast terminals than to the in
termediate points. The orders issued
| To-Day define explicitly the rates in
dlcated in the opinions as reasonable
and require the carriers engaged in
transcontinental traffic to establish
the rates fixed by the commission on
OR before November Is, 1911. To In.
sure an equitable and convenient dis
position of all classes. which involve
haul provision of the law, the commits
sion divides the U. S. into five zones,
Five Zones.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 10.-The
zones are described as follows. Zone
Il: All territory lying west of a line
called Line No /, which extends in
general southerly direction from
point Immediately east of Grand Por.
tage, Mimi, southwesterly along the
northwestern sore of Lake Superior,
to point Immediately east of Supe-
rior Wis, thence southerly to the in
tersection of Arkansas and Oklahoma
state line; thence along the Kansas
City Southern Railway to the Gulf of
Mexico.
Zone g. All territory lying west
of line No. l and west of line called
No. 2, which begins at the Canadian
boundary Immediately west of Cock
burn Island, in Lake Huron, passes
westerly through the straits of Mack
inac, southerly through Lake Michi-
gan. to Paducah, KY, thence souther-
| ly to the Gulf of Mexico.
Zone 3: All territory lying east of
line No 2, and north of a line ex-
tending from Norfolk, Va, to Padu-
cab, KY, and west of Line No. 3. from
Buffalo, N. Y, to Wheeling, w. Va,
and thence along the Ohio river to
Huntington, w. Va,
Zone 4: All territory east of line
No, 3, and north of the Norfolk Padu-
cab line.
Zone 5: All territory lying south
of the Norfolk.Paducah line and east
of the Mobile and Ohio railroad known
as the Southwestern territory. The
railways are not permitted to exact
higher commodity charges from points
in zone, to intermediate points. than
to Pacific coast terminals. From
points in Zone 2, permission is grant
ed to charge commodity rates to
points intermediate to Pacific termi-
mails seven per cent higher than to the
terminals. From Zone g. fifteen per
cent higher, and from Zone A. twenty
NV pei SoHt HiSHci. NO OTQor IS
made as to the rates from Zone 5.
The order in the Spokane rate case
which affects the rates not only to
Spokane, but to Walla Wash and La
Grande, Baker City and Pendleton,
Ore. follows precisely the principles
and rates laid down in.long and short
haul order. the differentials of seven,
fifteen and. twenty-five per cent in
favor OF Pacific terminals being main
tanned.