The Holbrook news., 1914-03-06
REDUCED FREIGHT RATES
 WILL BENEFIT HOLBROOK

Under date of December 24th.
 1912. the Arizona Corporation
 Commission attacked as unreas-
 enable and unduly prejudicial to
 Arizona consumers the rate on
 four and various mixtures of
 grain products published in k.
 H. Countiss' Trans Continental
 Freight Bureau West Bound Spe
 cial Tariff ICC 955, which pub
 fishes rates on grain and grain
 products from Kansas, Nebraska,
 Oklahoma, Colorado. Iowa and
 Missouri to points in Arizona. and
 asked that the California terrni-
 nal rate on flour be applied as a
 maximum at Arizona intermedi-
 ate points with 12 per cent spread
 between the rates on wheat and
 flour prescribed by the Interstate
 Commerce Commission in the
 case of the Valley Flour Mills vs.
 A. T. 6 s. F. By Co. ct. al. ICC
 Dockett No. 73. After the filing
 of the complaint in Docket No.
 5423, by the Arizona Corporation
 Commission the defendent rail
 roads filed a tariff with the Inter
 state Commerce Commission pro-
 posing to increase the existing 58 cent rate on wheat to Arizona
 points to a basis of approximate
 ly 98 cents at Holbrook; $1.05 at
 Winslow; S1.09 at Flagstaff and $1.13 at Kingman, and from 68 cents at Phoenix to $1.09, that by.so dolng they might preserve the 12 per cent differentiaI be- tween wheat and flour as pre- scribed Tn the Howard Mills Case without decreasing the rates on four. Upon application of the Arizona Corporation Commission in Investigation and Suspension Dockett No. 266-ICC. this tariff advancing the rates on wheat was suspended. The hearing of this suspension docket was heard be- fore Commissioner Clements at  Albuquerque on November 22. 1913. and oral arguments on I. & s. Docket No. 266, as well as No. | 5423, were heard Tn Washington on January 8th, 1914. At both of | these bearings the Arizona Cor poration Commission presented | it's case in person. In it's decision | the Interstate Commerce Com mission says:
 Complainant asks that the rates on four be made to grade up gradually toward or to the terminal rate, and we see no req son why this adjustment should | not be required to be made. We find no justification for rates on flour and the other grain products in question from the territory of | origin involved in this proceeding which are higher to intermediate points in Arizona than to the Cal lfornia terminals. We find that the defendants rates on four to points in Arizona from the terri tory of origin in question are un- reasonable and unduly prejudiciaI to the extent that they exceed the rate to California terminals. What we have said with respect to the rate on flour applies also in principle to wheat. It follows that we find the rates in the pro- posed tariffs now under suspen- sion in Investigation and Suspen- sion Docket No. 266 to be unreas onable and that we shall order them to be cancelled. An order will be entered accordingly | In Docket No. 5423 we shall give the carriers until May 1st. 1914, within which to revise the rates therein involv- ed in substantial accordance with our findings herein. If this is not done by that date. an order will be entered Tn that case. "
 Below is given the schedule of the rates on wheat and flour to Holbrook and other points west i o,, fbo Corko D., ,,,o;v, I,,,o oxx.1k