The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-08-01
OFFICIAL PAPER INCOME COUNTY
SPECIAL FREIGHT RATES
FOR DROUGHT SECTION
Fare and a Third Allowed for Nov
ing Cattle to Pastures and Return
Transit Rates and Reduced
Tariffs on Feed Also

Washington, D. C.-Emergenc,
freight rates to afford relief in drougl
freight rates to afford relief IL
drought-striken territory of the North
west have just been announced by
the Railroad Administration after con
ference with officials of the United
Stated States Department of Agricul
ture. They may mean the difference
between millions of steaks and roasts
in as many hons throughout the coun-
try and dry bones scattered over the
farms and ranges of the Northwest.
AS result of the rates, probably half
million starving cattle will be NOV
edfrom the stricken regions Of Mon
tana, Wyoming, and North Dakota to
pastures in other States, and feed
will be shipped into the drought coun-
try to sustain other hundreds of thou
sands of breeding animals.
For some time past the Department
of Agriculture and the Railroad Ad-
minstration have been working out
basis of action.
The emergencw rate for feed shipp-
ed into the drought-striken territory
is one-half of the regular rate, from
points on railroad lines serving the
destination territory. Practically all
kinds of feed are provided for Cot
tonseed cake and cottonseed meal,
however, are not included under the
half rate, but may be shipped from
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and
points in Louisiana on and east of the
Mississippi River at rates ranging
from SO to so cents hundred
The rate for shipping cattle out of
the drought-striken area to pasture
or feed and later returning them a.
mounts to around trip rate of one |
and one-third the regular one-way |
rate. That is, animals may be shipp- |
ed to pasture or feeding points upon |
payment of the regular rate, and at |
any time prior to June /, 1920, may |
be returned to the piont of origin up
rate, Alarge proportion of the amin
ais brought out will never go back,
but after fattening of grass or feed,
will go to the slaughter pen. Provi-
sion is made for this by the granting
of transit rates, which means that
the owners pay the through rate from
the points of origin to the market
instead of two local rates, one from
the point of origin to the pasture
point and one from the pasture point
to the market, This privilege is ex-
tended to IL months from the date of
original shipment. This is an extern
sion of the transit rate on sheep that
has been in existence for long time,
but is now made to apply also to cat.
tie, hogs and horses.
The Department of Agriculture is |
throwing into the work the same or
ganization that saved hundreds of
of cattle last year in the
1rought-striken areas of the South ,
west. The Bureau of Animal Indus i,
.ry will establish an office at Billings !,
Mont, for dealing with owners who :
lesire to get their cattle out to pas
,ure or feed. A distributing station
will be established at st. Paul, MINI. =
This Office will locate available pas /
,ure and feed supplies and distribute T
lnimals sent out from the drought 4
'triken areas The Bureau of Markets
will conduct the same kind of feed o
'eporting service that it did in Texas =
asst year and the States Relations q
service, through its country agents II
md otherwise, will give assistance u
ii along the line. p