Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-01

~ per cent increase IN the rates
rates on milk.
2 The increases may become effective
upon five days notice given BY the car
| riers to the commission and the public
and they must be put into effect before
January /. 1921 Since the government
! guarantee to the roads expires on Sep
tember first. it is generally expected
that the advances will be put into force
before that date.
Valuations As Basis.
In arriving at the increases the com
mission placed the valuation Of the rail-
road properties at s1S.900,00000O as
against the S2O.616. 100000 estimate of
the railroad executives.
The increase granted by the com
mission are estimated by ii to he suffi-
cient to absorb the wage award of the
railroad labor board which the COM
mission placed at S61S.O0O,0O0 and to
bring the net income of the carriers
to the 5l2 per cent granted under the
transportation act
The commission authorized the ap-
plication of the general increase to the
rates on commodities. Special rates
hitherto prevailed and the charges
therefore will be increased according to
percentage ordered in the various
groups.
Total Freight increase.
The freight increase total is estimated
at S1,13i, 100000 on the basis of 6 per
cent of the ,900.000,000 placed by
the commission on the properties of all
the roads. The increase OF 40 per cent
IN the east is estimated to yield approx
lmateIy S150000,000. The % per cent
granted southern roads is estimated to
yield about S1oo,000.000 while the west
ern and mountain Pacific roads get an
increased return of about S2s4 1000, 600
on freight rates.
Passenger increase.
To the increase of S1134 900. 600
TO the nations freight bill will be added
ana increase @ in passenger rates aggrega
ting S233, ,S2I $50; a Increase of Put.-
man rates aggregating S1,42o.999 and
advance III milk rates of about s. 100000
HE increases granted are designed to
give the roads net income of 81, per
cent on their valuation a nd an addition
al half of | per cent t o make what
the commission described as an appro-
PIRATE provision for addition improve
ments betterments of equipment Il
character chargeable to capital account"
Ocean Rates.
toastwiSe steamship lines were
authorized to inerease freight rates TO
railroads operating between the sanr
points or in the same territory"
Electric Lines
The commission also gave electris
railway lines permission to increase
their freight rates by the same percent
age as approved for trunk lines in the
same territory. The commission added
thiswas not to BIT construed as an
expression disapproval of increases,
made or proposed in the regular manner.
in the passenger fares of electric lines.
from figures submitted to the COM
mission by the carriers when their appli-
cations for the increases were made.
1t was unofficially estimated that the
apportionment of the advance would work
out at about 81, ,2S5.50o.O0O on freight,
s-aat, 600 on passenger; S43 100000 on
pullman; S4.50o,000 or milk and 1,40O-
zoo excess baggage charges.
On the same calculations the eastern
roads would get the greater nart of the
total increase. receiving approxilnately
sSl3 3,93oNo as compared with S55a.-
iSo,u00 for the western lines including
those in the mountain Pacific territory
and S13o. DOS 900 for the southern car
rers.
The increased charges on freight alone
We're estimated as equally a levy of ST.
per capita per annum for every man
the nations population at 1t6,N0,o0O
for the year 1920, recently made by the
census bureau.
Rates As Asked
The increase in passenger pullman.
and excess baggage rates were exactly
those asked by the reads Freight in
creases requested were 1910 for The
eastern roads sos for the western
roads and 3S.91 for the southern roads.
the total estimated TO yield S1.356,ooo,-
N0. The eastern roads thus We're granted
- of one per cent more than they sought
the western roads approximately what
they sought but the southern roads re
reived approximately II per cent less
than they had requested,
Southern Roads.
In connection with the increase tor
the southern roads the COMMISSION sald
hat the financial condition of those car
riers was more favorable than the hnss
in either of the other groups. IN view
sc this condition the commission held
That they were better able TO meet the
demands on them than some of the
,ther companies and the referee did not
,eouire as large an increase.
Equipment Allowance.
1.-The increase here authorized" the
commission said, "are intended to Yield.
he additional .one-haf of one per cent
f the aggregate value of the roads to
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