Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-28
COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS IN
IOWA PLAN INCREASE IN
TARIFFS.
WILL SEEK PERMISSION
FROM RAIL COMMISSION
Proposed Advance Amounts to About 50
Per Cent Of Present Rates compan-
X ies Plan to Adopt Zone System Sim
liar 70 That in Use on Interstate
Business

Cedar Rapids, Dec. %. ~ That the
gaiety OF the holiday season may be
complete the express companies doing
business in Iowa announce they are
going to do their part, and that they
are going to add to the high cost Of
living by boosting the rates. provided
the. Iowa Railroad Commission will
consent, and the shippers Of the state
do not raise up on their hind legs and
call halt.
Announcement was made today by
the railroad commission that the Adj
ANS the American and the Wells Far
go companies had made application to
the commission for a, hearing on the
effect OF the Iowa intra-state express
schedules as contained in express order
No. 2, and official classification No. 81.
No date has been set for the hearing.
IL the companies are permitted to
place the proposed rates into effect Ce-
dar Rapids shippers in some instances
will be called on to pay an advance Of
so per cent, but there is just little
comfort in the new rates in that If they
should be permitted to go into effect
which does not obtain now. The sec
number OF foodstuffs and the reduction
to Des Moines for example will be 8
cents hundred under the rate now
charged.
The Proposed Rates.
The proposed rate to Waterloo from
Cedar Rapids is 30 cents a. hundred
pounds. The present rate is go cents.
The increase is SO per cent.
4 The present rate to Des Moines is 80
cents hundred and the proposed rate
I is $1.t5, an increase of % per cent.
The proposed rate to Council Bluffs
s.: s. SIS: = SO and the present rate is s1.30.
The increase Is 80 per cent.
The rate to Davenport at present Is
| SIS cents and the proposed rate in
screases 1t to 80 cents, an increase of
rs .ner cent.
q The new rateito Dubuque will be 80
gents as against 10 cents, the present
crate.
Under the second class rates the
Marge on hundred pounds of express
rom this city to Des Moines will be 81
tents whereas the present rate Is 90
teents.
1 Adopt Zone System.
The companies propose to adopt the
zone system In intra Estate business as
was done by them in interstate bust
ness about year ago on permission of
1.-THE interstate commerce commission.
These zones are similar to the parcel
lpost zones and rates are based to zone
points rather than by mileage as is
done at present
It Is expected that the announcement
lot the proposed rates will create a stir
n the shipping world There Is hard
~ any doubt but that an effort will be
made to keep the rates down to their
present figure.
\ It was said in this city today that II
any radical change was proposed by
the companies shippers would appear
before the railroad commission and OPP
pose them. One local shipper said to-
day that he did not believe the COM
mission would stand for the proposed
increase. He pointed out that express
rates now are high and he could see no
reason for their increase, but he de-
clared there was some comfort in the
fact that a second-class rate was to be
established which would take in most
of the food commodities, probably
meaning slight reduction in the cost
of the few articles which are handled
by express.