Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-01
ARIZONA SHIPPERS
 u SAVE s104,OOO
 IN NEW FLOUR RATES
Average Reduction of Forty
 Cents Per Hundred Pounds Means Great Saving to the Bread Eaters of the Section

PHoENlx, Feb. 2s.-Accordlng to estimates of Corporatsoi. Commission. CTS W. P. Geary and A. W. CoIe, Ari. zona shippers will be saved SlUi .UOO annually by the new freight rates on floor rom middle western points. Just ordered by the Interstate Com. merce commission The average re- duction is forty cents hundred pounds.
 The following history of the flcur rate case and digest Of the I. C. C.. order has been prepared by Commits sioners Geary and Cole
 Under date of December 24th. 1912. the Arizona corporation com. mission attacked as unreasonable and unduly prejudicial to Arizona con. the rates on flour and various mkt ures of grain products the rates on flour and various mixtures of grain products published in R. II. Countiss Transcontinental Freight Bureau westbound special tariff. l. C. c. 955. which publishes rates an grain and grain products from Kansas. Okla hcma, Colorado. Iowa and Missouri to points irf Arizona. and asked that the California terminal rate on flour be applied as a maximum to Arizona in- termediate points. with the twelve per cent spread between the rates on wheat and -four prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the case of the Valley Flour Mills ys. A. T. & $. F. Rry Co., ct al. After the filing of the complaint in Docket No 5423. by the Arizona Corporation Commission. the defendant railroads filed a tarlff with the Interstate Com merce Commission proposing to in- crease the existing 5S-cent rate on wheat to Arizona points to basis ot approximately 9S cents 10 Holbrook. sl.05 to Winslow. S1.09 10 Flagstaff, SIS to Kingman and $l.09 to Phoe- qix, in order that they might pre- serve the twelve per cent differental without reducing the rates on flour Upon application cf the Arizona conn mission the proposed advance in rates on wheat was suspended. Hearings were held at Albuquerque November 22, 1913, and in Washington January 6, 1914 At both these hearings the Arizona corporation commission pre- sented it's case in person. In its de- cision the Interstate commerce com mission says:
 Complainant asks that the rates on flour be made to grade mp grad ually toward or to the terminal rate, and we see no reason why this adjust ment should not be required to be made. We find no justification for rates cn four and the other grain products in question from the terri tory of origin involved in this pro ceeding which are higher to interme- diate points in Arizona than to the California terminals. We find that the defendants rates on flour to points in Arizc na from the territory of origin in question are unreasonable and un- duly prejudicial to the extent that they exceed the rate to the California terminals. What we have said with respect to the rate on flour applies also in principle to wheat. It follows that we fird the rates in the proposed tariffs now under suspension to be unreasonable and that we shall order hem to be cancelled. An order will be entered accordingly. In Docket No. 5423 we shall give the carriers until lay 1 1914, in which to revise the ,atau therain involved in substantial accordance with out findings herein, If this Is not done by that date an rates. of $125 and s1.33 respectively
 It is highly probable that the order will be issued in that case.
 from Missouri and Mississippi river points, on package cereals, will be materially affected by this decision inasmuch as a. combination of the