The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-30
FREIGHT RATES ARE
UNDER FIRE Of
SHIPPERS
Committee Will Go Before
State Railroad Board with
Many Questions.
WILL
STUDY MATTER
As Chairman of Special Com
mittee He Visits Twin
Cities Next Week.
WILL
STUDY MATTER

To make a careful and exhaustive
examination into tho actual effects up-
on western territory of the new CLASH
ttcation of freight rates which went
into effect February 10, A committee
representative of the jobbing. retail
and manufacturing interests of Grand
FORKS will meet with the North Dako-
ia railroad commission in the court
house mex Friday.
The railroad commissioners at this
meeting will endcavor to learn whcth-
err the increases, by being OH articles
that move extensively. offsets the dc
rreascs and whether or not the facts
warrant taking the matter before the
interstate commerce commission.
The new classification applies to all
railroads between the Mississippi river
and the Pacific coast. One thousand,
six hundred and sixty changes were
and tifty-two changes were increases
over the old schedule and the rest arc
decreases.
Grand Forks Committee.
r. ID. Cameron of the firm of Park,
Grant 4 Morris, Wholesale groccrs, is
chairman of the Grand Forks COM
mittce that will take the matter up
with the railroad commissioners. The
other members of the committee are
~ ibs Allluy " lie NllACI ~ Il, Ii
Finch.
Mr.. Cameron goes to St. Paul to-
night to attend the meeting of the
Northwestern Jobbers' Credit bureau.
He will return Wednesday and will
then call a meeting of the committee
on freight rates. when plans will he
completed for setting the matter
clearly before the board Of railroad
commissioners Friday.
NV " W., .n;1 kl:e .,-.-;.~ Al,o
the purpose of tho new classification,
as he understands it. is to make a
more uniform freight rate for both the
eastern n western territory.
The proposition now confronting
the railroad commissioners and the
shippers as well. he said, is to determ-
inc what effect rates benetiting the
eastern shipper will have on the vest
crn territory and vica versa. At the
present time. Mr.. Cameron contends,
II clearer understanding of what the
new classification will mean to the
shippers of the two territories is the
paramount need Of all concerned.
Take Up Quick Delivery.
The railroad commissioners will
meet in Minot. April ,. 3 and 4 to take
up the same propositions with the
shippers of that district. While in
session there they. will also look into
lle HidltcI VI teleSIdpu companies ue-
livering messages over the telephone
as soon as the message is received if
the person to whom the message is
sent desires such delivery.
In Grand Forks this rule is being
lived up to by the Western Union. but
in some places. it is said. the telegraph
companies refuse to deliver the mes
sages by telephone.
1t is probable that the railroad com
missioners will demand that all com
~lanies doing business in the state de-
liver messages as soon as they are re-
ceived. by phone if desired.
In the larger cities the telegraph
companies are using the phones for
quick delivery. but in the smaller
towns. it is said, they arc making nG
effort to benefit the patrons in this
manner.