Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-03-31
RAILROADS PROPOSE
HEAVY INCREASES IN
|NTRA-ST RATES
Digest of Twenty-Six Leading
Commodities Shows Pro-
posed Increases Ranging
From 20 to 147 Per Cent

Harry T. Moore, traffic manager of
the Atlanta freight bureau, has COM
rleted a partial digest of the revision
of Georgia intra-state freight rates pro-
posed by Glass c railroads in their pc
tition filed recently with the state rail-
road commission, the roads included in
Class being the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic, the Central of Georgia,
the Georgia Southern and Florida, the
Seaboard Air Line and the Southern.
The digest covers twenty-six of the
leading commodities annd shows that
the railroads propose to increase intra-
state rates on these commodities from
20 TO LAT per cent, the basis of calcu-
lation being the average increases pro-
posed from hauls of ten to a hundred
miles.
Georgia shippers and traffic managers
of Georgia commercial bodies will meet
in Macon tomorrow, Thursday, for the
purpose of considering the effect which
the proposed revision would have upon
their business, and for the further pur-
pose of organizing a statewide fight
against the granting of the new rates.
Atlanta will be represented at the
Macon meeting by a delegation from
the Atlanta freight bureau including
submit to the meeting his digest of the
twenty-six commodities above referred
to.
STARTLING DISCLOSURES.
The disclosures contained in Mr.
Moore's digest are nothing short of
startling. They show, among other
things, that half a dozen infant indus
tries which the state is exerting it's ut
most influence to encourage and devel-
op will be hit severely by the revision
in rates, and it shows that other indus
tries which are established but just be-
ginning to show real strength and
growth, will likewise suffer heavy PEN
alties in increased rates upon their
products.
Figures given below are the average
increases proposed on hauls from ten
to one hundred miles.
On apples the railroads propose an
increase of 6S.S per cent; on canned
fruits, vegetables and syrups they pro-
pose an increase of 81 per cent; on cat
tie, hogs and sheep they propose an
increase of IS per cent; on hay they
propose an increase of 117.4 per cent; on
horses and mules they propose an IN
crease of 42.2 per cent; on fresh meats,
sausage and dressed poultry they pro-
pose an increase of 147.S per cent; on
watermelons they propose an increase
of 1919 per cent.
Everyone of these commodities repre-
SCENTS an industry which the state or
Georgia, through it's agricultural de-
partment it's farm college, its dlSlrlcI
agricultural schools and other agencies,
has been laboriously developing for
years They are new industries, just
getting on their feet. They sum up
practically the whole movement LOOKING
to the raising of food products at home.
NH railroads pro-
nose to levy against the apple industry
is SO heavy that the new rate on apples
from Cornelia, Ca, a large apple CEN
ter. would be greater than the rate on
apples from New York state In other
words, the railroads propose TO charge
a Cornelia apple grower more Tor haul-
ing a carload of his apples to Albany,
Ga, than the railroads charge New
York state apple grower for haullng a
carload of his apples to Albany Ga.
The character of the proposed re-
vision is further shown by figures on
other commodities. In the hgures De-
low, sc L." is used to designate carload
lots. and Il. C. L." is used to designate
less than carload lots.
Here are some of the increases Whlch
the railroads propose:
Brick deb, 1885 per cent; orooms
dcD. 96.6 per cent; candy, axes QcD
and fruit jars deb, 49.I per cent; ce-
ment deb, 54 per cent; cotton seed
deb, 20.9 per cent cotton seed hulls
ted, % per cent; cotton linters and po-
tatoes deb, S36 per cent; cotton rope
and cotton piece goods deb, 65.S per
cent; crackers. liquid paint pillow han
dies and beams deb, 25.4 per cent; fer
tilizers (cD, S7.6 per cent; fertilizers
deb, 274 per cent; flour, any quantity.
26.S per cent; glass windows Qc) and
harrows QcD, 10 per cent; matches
QcD, 3S.4 per cent; lettered monu-
nents deb, l42 per cent; nails, pillow
irons. woven wire netting, ETC., 80 per
cent; overalls, knitting factory prod
|. ucts, underwear, etc, $50 per cent;
rice deb, 54.5 per cent; sugar Qcl),
los per cent.