The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-19
AS TO INTERSTATE RATES.

freight rate question, ear III the
News and Observer on Saturday, Au-
gust second, the need for ar equitable
adjustment OF interstate freight rates
was urged, and as one illustration Or
the inequalities which are known 10
exist. and which have been stated by
Chairman Travis, Of the North Caro-
lima Corporation Commission. there
was reprinted from the Mount Olive
Tribune an editorial, which, under the
caption of Utterly lndefensible,'
| told Of freight rate discrimination
against Mount Olive. IT was stated
in that paper that the rate on fer
| tilizer and fertilizer material from
| Wilmington to Mount Olive was $1.60
| per ton, while to Goldsbor0, beyond
Mount Olive, the rate was 80 cents.
The Mount Olive Tribune declared
this to be a rank injue->ce, and rely
ing upon the facts as stated. this
paper endorsed the declaration that
| this was utterly indefensible' and
should be remedied. On the eleventh
Of August this paper received from
Mr.. J. W. Perrin, general freight
agent Of the Atlantic Coast Line, a
copy of a letter, dated August eight.
addressed to the Mount Olive Tribune,
in which that paper was advised that
it's information was incorrect and 1t
was asked to make "tne necessary
correction so as to remove an errone-
GUS impression that may be caused
thereby" The News and Observer at
once wrote to Editor Fred. R Mintz.
him for information as to the state
ments published. and informed Mr..
Perrin OF its action, SO as to make
correction if an error was found. In
a letter of August ninth, the editor
, Of the Mount Olive Tribune, inform
ing this paper OF Mr.. PERKINS, letter
to it, stated that this information
, was given to me by the company
: agent at this place. He claimed that
il was secured from the COMPANY
: tariff book. therefore accepted it
, investigating the matter. Yesterday
= in a Letter from Editor Mintz a copy
: Of his reply to Mr.. Perrin was en-
closed, in this the source OF the in
: formation obtained by the Mount
: Olive Tribune being given. and tina
= after investigation that he was pleas
= ed to learn that the situation is no,
SO intolerable," that the bulk rate in
u the Atlantic Coast Line tariff schedule
: showed for fertilizer and fertilizer
: material from Wilmington to Colds.
!" TO Mount Olive $50 per ton, j,
. place Of 90 cents to Goldsboro ant
- $l.6O to Mount Olive. He cites ais,
!" other inequalities as to rates from
Wilmington to Goldsboro and Noun
Olive and from these places to Will
mington, and says he hnds these il
l. the tariff schedule Of the Atlantt
J. Coast Line, and that he is informe,
n that freight charges are made 8
b. Mount Olive according to these tarii
h schedules. The two letters whic'
10 give the matter at issue are appended
a. First. hat from General Freigh
Agent Perrin to the Mount Olive Tri
hume dated August 8. 1913, reading:
-. I'm the Raleigh News and Observe
- OF Saturday. August End. there Ak
81 pears an editorial, quoting statement
in from your paper to the effect Jts
from rate from Wilmington to MouY
lie Olive IN fertilizer and fertilizer mate
ed rial is $50 per ton, while from Wi
niingtOn to GoldsbOro the rate per to
" Is only 80 cents. And we 1nderS:an
that the same difference IS made {
&c practically everything shipped in.
this territory
THE rates from Wilmington to bo,
Mount Olive and Goldsboro on q
classes Of traffic. including gener,
III, merchandise, fertilizer. fertilizer IN;