American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1911-05-13

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consider It's wonderful power or the
Influence 1t nigh have In the devel-
opment OF the country. We were
also much Interested In the harness
factory. That Is an institution OF
which there Is not a duplicate on
the Short Line. ! am very glad to
see that scrt OF industry. have
been, struck with admiration at the
plain, straightforward. business like
manner In whish you gentlemen pre-
scented your desires, and ] shall en-
deavor to give you a business like
answer TO your questions.
Now, to begin with, Mr.. Green
wood brought up the question oil
Immigrant rates, and l am mo- sur
prised that he does not understand
the matter. II any OF us had been
told years ago that we would go
through the experiences which we
have we would have said that 1t
was a mistake. The Interstate COM
merce commission has worked great
inconvenience on the public. and the
carriers themselves. Now, n OF
their rulings Is that wherever you
have a published through rate that
rate must be charged and collected
regardless OF the fact that the sum
of two local rates nay make less.
and that Is the reason why a ship
ment of goods from Spokane must
be charged at the class B rate Of 70
cents, Notwithstanding there is a
commodity rate of so cents from
Spokane t. Minidoka and another
rate of IL cents. from Minidoka here.
Now that situation has but lately
been called to our attention and
the O. r. & N. has been instructed
to publish a throuh rate of 81 cents.
| do not know but that the rate will
be the same as toMinidoka. ! do
notwant to charge you the full sum
of two local rates, and If the new
rate is not in the tariff it will be
in a few days. We formerly pub
lished a rate like the Minidoka rate,
and whenever the sum of two local
rates was less you were privileged
to use that, but the inter-statecom-
mission overturned that
Now with reference to shipments
moving from another point beyond
Spokane. 1t goes to show how the
rulings of the commission have con-
fused us. From this point. beyond
Spokane there Is no published
through rate to American Falls.
The only basis would be the through
rate from Spokane here, and the
commission rules that we can use
the sum of the several locals. That
is. the rate from that point to Spo-
kane, IL cents. Spokane to Minido-
,tka so cents, from Minidoka here IL
cents, so we are privileged to use
the through rate of 10 cents when
we had to chare 70 cents from Spo-
kane. | am very glad that Mr..
Greenwood brought the matter up,
and II you know of anyone who has
paid 70 cents tell him to send in
his expense bill and | will see that
he Is rebated down to 60 cents.
Before | forget it / want to ask
about this Turkey Red wheat. Was
that imported wheat? The reason
| ask is because l have had some
correspondence with Mr.. Mullen
who is very anxious to get this Tur-
key Red wheat planted in this
try, and he is after us now to get
rates from Kansas and Nebraska,
and it occurred to me that if you
had seed here it might be worked
in.
with reference to the rate to
Caldwell from here which you say
is 25 censt, and from Idaho Falls 20
cents. We have two rates in the
tariff, one applying on any kind of
grain with a minimum of 5000
pounds. In addition to that we have
a rate from Idaho Falls of 20 cents
on wheat, minimum $4,000 pounds.
The intention was to have the min
imum higher, but it was a mistake
in the printing. That rate applies
from American Falls to Caldwell
today. some of our agents have
misunderstood it, and if you have
any difficulty about the matter
please take 1t up with me. 1t is
true we have an IS cent rate from
Twin Falls to Boise. 1t was put in
at the request of a Payette miller.
There is no reason why you should
not have IN Is cent rate from here
and | will see that it is published as
soon rs | return to Salt Lake City.
Speaking of the rate on corn
from Nebraska, | think you are mis-
taken. | do not know why you are
not entitled to the same rate as
Idaho Falls. Mr.. Philbrick has had
up with me the question of rates
TO American Falls. and called my at
tention to the fact that we made
a sudden jump on wire, etc, coming
from the east. | told them that as
soon AS this tariff was issued rates
would be less and that will be done
in the coourse of -four or five
months. We are now waiting for
a decision of the various western
rate cases before the tariff is is