Arizona republican., 1920-09-17

that the new charge would he 30 cents,
 sent a letter to the railroad showing 1 that 9 per cent of 22 12 cents is about i I2 cents. and that the whole charge ! thtrefore should be about 2S cents. The i railway replied that a mistake had been made with regard to the tariffs 1 consulted by it and would be corrected. The mining company was notified ] again that 1t would be assessed 30
 cents a ton and the figures were again sent to the railroad. This re- received an answer that a mistake had ! been made second time Another mo- ] tfication was then received by the ] mining company with the brief com | ment that although the tariff should not be 30 cents according to the fig 1 ures, nevertheless the railroad com pany had decided that such tariff should be assessed
 After asserting that he did believe 1 the railroads were sincere in their de- mands, he took up a discussion of the l freight rates out of Phoenix with ref erence to the increase. His company, 1 he said. maintains it's own commis- sary, where goods are sold a cost to i the members of the camp which in-
 cludes about 100 people. He said that 1 an increase on all commodities out of l Phoenix to the camp, especially one
 as high as 9 per cent, would so raise f living conditions that demands for i'm ! creased wages would follow and that ! tht old vicious circle of costs and wages ! would continue
 Percy Williams of the Fl Tiro Leas- ! ing company, Silver Bell presented a 1 long and interesting digest of the costs i of bringing a ton of ore to d smelter, i the smelting and the final returns He | showed by his digest of costs that the ere Of his company. containing 130 pounds of copper to the ton when f IF n e,e~ but the value of his figures was in showing the amounts paid to railroads ] by the sme1terS in all their operations
 the freight paid for fuel oil for in- stance and for supplies material and
 other necessities dependent upon shipping-all o (which charges must l be assessed against the ton or ore 1 treated. The conclusion of his digest
 was that a blanket increase in rates O.
 2 per cent would take away the so cents profits now enjoyed by his com pany and leave in it's stead a deficit of i 45 cents.
 Oppose Other Increases
 MT. Steinell of the United Verde ! Copper company spoke against in- creased rates mining timbers be- | tween Flagstaff and Williams and l Clarkdale. At this point F'ennemore 1 interposed a protest of his own
 against the filing of exhibirs at this
 on the ground that he was asking for 1 a blanket increase and not increases ] in specific cases This ended the
 morning session.
 l In the afternoon R. A. Nickerson of | the Saginaw Manistee Lumber com ! pany urged the keeping down of rates
 on logs between BelIemont and Will 1 Hams. F.. R. Rountree, traffic expert 1 of the Douglas chamber of commerce and mines, took up the question of in l cIeases in freight rates into Douglas; | ( of ri ia hlI | reau examined increases on farm prod ucts, and then C. l.. Blaine, traffic l expert for the Arizona Packing com
 pany, began an attack on the proposed l increases from a new angle. He did not protest. he said, against
 a specific increase in rates. but he did
 protest against an increase which was i based upon "an average of averages, and which placed upon Arizona ship 1 pers burdens which should be carried I by other states, which, he alleged, are 1 getting lower rates in the majority of 1 instances, than this state, and he
 asked for justification in tariffs for 1 this reason.
 Switching Rate Attacked I The next hearing was that of the petition of the Shattuck- Arizona com pany of Cochise county for reduction l in switching charges from the present rate og $6.50, assessed by the Fl Paso | X Southeastern railway. The mining
 company was represented by T. O.
 NcGrath, and the railroad by Eugene l Fox, genra1 traffic manager; l.. U.
 Morris, general superintendent. who
 was operating witness for the railroad
 J. l.. Stewart of the legal department,
 and w. c. Barnes, freight traffic man
 ager.
 The third hearing was of a sin l gular nature. In this proceeding the
 Santa Fe railroad, through G. H. Baker, l assistant general freight agent asked for a charge of $1 a car for loading and
 unloading cattle in transit for food and
 water or other purposes in cases where
 no attendants accompany the shipment. 1 There was. he explained, formerly a i charge of $1.25 for this service. but in
 issuing printed tariff on cattle ship
 ments the publishers unaccountably i left out this service charge, so that the petition of the railroad company was. 1 in-reality, a reduction in charge instead of an increase.
 As the charge is to be assessed only l when the shipment is from or to a l public stockyard, defined as stock yard where there are federal inspectors
 and which are under the control of cor
 porations other than the carrier, c. T.. i Blaine protestd on the ground that it is discriminatory a protest which was
 met by the assertion that as there were i no public stockyards in Arizona q protest on grounds of discrimination
 in intrastate rates could not we'll be
 supported.