The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-08-30
SOUTH HAS ADVANTAGE
OVER OTHER SECTIONS

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Washington, D. c., Aug. 27-"Pro-
ducers and consumers in the South
now enjoy a distinct advantage over
other sections of the United States in
respect of freight rates and their rel
ative position is better than it has
been at any time in the past" says a
statement issued by Vice President
Lincoln Green ON the Southern Rail-
way system.
"This present advantage springs"
the statement continues, from the
fact that freight rates outside the
South have been advanced to a much
greater extent than within the South.
When rates in the East were ad-
vanced five per cent in 1915 and Is
per cent in 1917, no increases were
made in te South. On August 26,
1920, rates in the East were increas-
ed 40 per cent and in the West and
Southwest 35 per cent; in the South
the increase was only rs per cent
while" rates between the South and
other territories were increased only
33 1-S per cent:
''The result of all this has been to
give Southern manufacturers great
advantage in rates on both raw ma
terials and finished products, an ad-
vantage which is shared by Southern
consumers. AS an example: A cot
ton manufacturer at Greenvllle, S. c.,
drawing raw cotton from Hattiesburg,
Miss, and shipping his product to
Chicago, paid in 1914 combined rate
of $1.14 per 100 pounds, while the
manufacturer in Lowell, Mass, draw
ing his cotton from Hattiesburg and
shipping to Chicago, paid $1.30, CIV
ing the Carolina manufacturer rate
advantage of Is cents. Under pres
ent, rates the Lowell manufacturer
pays for this service $2.63, while the
Carolina manufacturer pays only
$1.ss 1-2 giving him a rate advan-
tage of IA 1-2 cents.
Examples showing similar results
can be given for other Southern mill
points. A compilation of rates on raw
cotton from Hattiesburg, and Jack
son, Miss, Fulton, Ala, Cothran and
Tifton, Ca, Spartanburg and Orange
burg, S. c., to Augusta and Macon,
Ca, Columbia and Greenville, S. c.,
Charlotte and Gastonia, N. c., to-
gether with the rates from these mill
points to Chicago, shows that the av-
erage increase on the combined in
bound and outbound shaul has been SO
cents per hundred pounds. Taking
the same points Of .origin the rates on
raw cotton to Lowell and Boston and
on finished productstfrom these points
to t-.ieago shoW.an average increase
of sf..20 1-2.% - -
"The position of5the. manufacturer
of pig ifens,in the Birmingham dis
trict, as regards competition with fur
naces in the North, has been likewise
| improved. A compilation of the
freight costs of assembling material
to produce one ton Of iron in the Bir-
mingham district, combined with the
average rate per ton on pig from Bir-
mingham to large number of points
north of the Ohio river, has shown
that the Birmingham producer now
has an advantage of ts2.15 over Gary
competitors, while in June, 1918,
this advantage was only .$1.95 per
ton.
"The advantage which the South
enjoys from its relatively favorable
situation as to freight rates is, of
course, not confined to the two indus
tsries which have been cited as illus
trat;ons but is shared by all lines Of
industry and by all consumers in the
South, since the freight charges paid
on the articles and commodities they
consume have not been increased to
the same extent that freight charges
on similar shipments in other terri
tories have been advanced"
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