Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-30
Pulp Makers COMPLAINT.

freight rates on pulp wood moved bv the
Bangor and Maine Central Railroad Com
pah'cs Inc compliments are: Eastern
-hahulacturinS Company, katahdin Pulp
faper Company, Nekonegan Paper
company. orono Pulp & Paper Company,
OXFORD Paper Company. Penobscot Chem
zeal Fibre Company, S. l.. Warren q
Company, Forest Paper Company, Lin
coin Pulpwood Company, c. j. Weber,
f. E. Ring Land Company. c. W. Coffin
and J. :. Stetson
The complaint filed is one of the most
important. if not the most important. of
complaints filed with the Commission
charging unfair freight rates 1t reads
IN part as follows:
To the Public Utilities Commission
the undersigned complain against the
Bangor q Aroostook Railroad Company
and Maine Central Railroad Company
both railroad corporations duly organized
by law with principal offices at Bangor
and Portland. Maine. respectively. here
matter called the respondents, and re-
spectively show:
!. That the above named respondents
are common carriers engaged in the
transportation OF persons and property
between points in the State of Maine and
that as such common carriers, said re-
snondentS are subject to the provisions
of Chapter 129 of the Public Laws OF
Maine for the year 1913, as well as the
Revised Statutes of Maine and acts
amendatory thereof and additional there
to.
hN- 49, nj 4. 4
took and Maine Central tariffs. in comb-
nation with Maine Central tariffs, the
said respondent, the Bangor & Aroostook
Railroad Company. has published and
maintains. enforces charges and collects
rates on pulp wood from points in the
state of Maine where pulp wood is pro-
duced to Millinocket. Dolby Rips and
East Milinocket and to Old Town for To-
cal consumption: and the said respond
ents have published and maintain, en-
force charge and collect rates on pulp
wood from points in the State of Maine
on lines of the respondent, Bangor &
Aroostook Railroad Company. where
pulp wood is produced to points of desti-
nation on lines OF the respondent, Maine
Central Railroad, via Northern Maine
Junction, old Town and Dover & Fox
croft.
.. That from Lagrange and all points
ON the line of the respondent, Bangor &
ARGOS took Railroad. north and west
thereof. the combined Bangor & Aroos-
took ana Maine Central mileage TO west
ern Maine is less via Dover x FoXcroft
than via Northern Maine junction, and
Yet from all such points except nine sta
,a la hrap
spondent BanSor x Aroostook Railroad,
publishes pulp wood rates only Via
Northc Maine Junction.
l. That your compliments. Easter
Manufacturing Company, Katahdin Pulp
II Paper Company. Nekonegan Paper
Company. Orono Pulp x Paper Company
J oxford Paper Company, Penobscot Chem
zeal Fibre Company, Forest Paper Com
pany and :. d. Warren Il Company, are
manufacturers of various kinds of pulp
and paper using pulp wood in the manu-
facture thereof, with mills located in the
state of Maine respectively at South
Brewer. Lincoln, Old Town. Basin Mills,
Rumford. Great Works, Yarmouth and
Cumberland Mills.
g. That your complainant, Eastern
Manufacturing Company, Is the owner
of standing spruce timber used for pulp
wood in townships upon or tributary to
the lines of the respondent. Bangor &
Aroostook Railroad.
6. That your compliments. Lincoln
Pulpwood Company, Lincoln. Maine, {. j.
Webher, Bangor. Maine, E. K. Ring Lana
Company, Bangor Maine. {. W. Conn.
Bangor. Maine. J. S. Stetson, Bangor
Maine. are respectively owners of timber
lands and. or are engaged in the bust
ress If buving and selling pulp wood
which can be transported to the best adj
vantage ONLY on the lines of the re-
spondents,
That as a result of the maintenance,
enforcement, charge and collection OF the
rates published as aforesaid, your com
n,ainants are aggrieved because said
ro+es are unreasonable and unjustly dis
criminatorv. and without limiting the
generality of this allegation, specify
er,o,r others the following reasons: be-
cause
-, tn. said rates of the respondent.
poroor 4. Arooctook to Northern Maine
junction, Old Town, Dover foNcro.''
are higher than may be justihed pS 'he
service rendered,
IA, The said rates OF the resPoioeii',
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad 10 sara
no;nts are materially higher than o'hef
rates of the respondent. Bangor d Aroos-
took Rairdoad applying on pulp wood 1or
bau,s of similar character and length 70
A1i,,inocket Dolby Rips and East Mill
nocket.
n, The said rates of the respondent
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad 10 sal"
no;nts are materially higher IMAM 'he
local and proportional rates and the SUD
division of through rates greater value
than pulp wood, which are more i'heis
10 suffer damage in transit thah p"i =
wood. and which cost the said respo!oe"'
more to handle.
"a, The said rates of the respondent
Ranger & Aroostook Railroad, 10 sal"
nonts are materially higher tnan the
rates of other railroads applying On
hauls of pulp wood for similar Instances
under similar circumstances.
(e) The said rates of the respondent
Ranger & Aroostook Railroad, TO said
noints are so much higher than the rates
an pulp wood to Millinocket, Dolby Rlps
and East Millinocket that the complain
nd