Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-05
STATE COMMISSION MAY REGULATE TKE
 AUTO STAGE LINES
Recent Decision of the Corpo- ration Commission Indicates Stages Between Douglas and Bisbee May be Regulated.

Because of the trouble from auto
 stages on the Douglas-Bisbee road, an
 order recently issued by the state cor , poration commission regulating the manner of running stages between Phoenix and Globe and the fare to
 be charged will be of interest here. When a soldier was killed on the Bis bee road recently, the cOroner's jury recommended that the corporation take up the matter of regulating traf- tie on the road The Phoenix Repub-
 lican tells of the order as follows: "In an order issued yesterday by
 the corporation commission, travellers
 on public stages which operate be-
 tween this city and Globe will be com pelled to pay the sum of SIS for the round trip between these points and
 S10 for the one-way fare.
 The order cantaining the rate schedule between points on the route was issued by the commission in con- nection with the investigation of con ditions surrounding auto stage activ- ities over the Phoenix-RoOsevelt- Globe road. The matter came to the
 attentio nof the commission in Octo-'
 Der last, at which time complaint was
 made that the stages travelling over this route weer overlooking their au- tos to a point where the lives of the
 passengers were imperiled, and also that the machines were run at such
 night rate of speed as to furnish ad-
 ditional dangers to the occupants
 thereof Complaint was also made
 at this time that the cars were piled full of baggage. much to the detri-
 ment of the human cargoes. The
 commission, after an investigation of
 the conditions mentioned in the com
 plaint, made a ruling regulating the
 number of passengers to be carried
 in the auto stages. the speed at which
 the cars should be operated and also
 ruled that only certain amount of
 baggage should be placed on or in each machine.
 Freeman Fike. who operates one of the largest lines plying between this city and Globe. made protest that under the provisions of the commis- sion's order the profitable operation of the company's autos could not be carried on. and asked that the ruling be modified so as to permit the cars to be run in a remunerative manner. The Union stage line. also operated over the same road, made a protest against the enforcement of the pro- vision of the order, which directed the stage companies to file a bond to indemnify any person who might be injured in any way by the cars.
 "In yesterdays order, the commis- sion stated that after investigatiag the matter, it did not find any new evidence that would tend to show the former order should be modified. In making the new investigation, how ever, the commission found that one ] condition now prevalent demanded at i tention and regulation. It was learn l ed that a number of companies, which ] the commission is pleased to desig- | nate as more or less financially ire sponsible' had begun to operate cars | over the PhoeniX-Globe route and had | established a rate schedule much low CT than that of the older established | companies, such rates being mater ially lower than the records show to | be the cost of rendering service. 1 Consequently. the commission felt | justified in declaring a rate suffi- ciently high to protect legitimate in- dustry from failure and loss.
 The new regulations provide that all tickets between the terminal points of the line shall be sold for not less than the established rates as above and that the running time of all light cars shall not be less than ten hours for the trip and the Il time of the trip by heavier cars shall be nine hours. No cad shall be al lowed to carry more passengers than the number which is was originally II designed to seat. and light cars are prohibited from carrying more than l50 pounds of baggage. Heavy cars may carry $50 pounds of baggage or proDerty