The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
REDUCES ALABAMA RATES.
 ON FERTILIZER
Mileage Basis To Be Used Entirely By Latest
 Arrangement
MANY TOWNS PROFIT
 BY NEW SCEEDULEl
Fertilizer Now Entitled To Lowest Scale Of
 Freight Rates
State CanItal Burvam

MONTGOMERY Ala May 51-H New fertilizer rates for rhe mns1 part representing a reduction from exlsrlng rates. were ordered today by the AAa-l bama pubic service c0mmisslUm for E application ST aIl raiIroeds Gf theH state. The daS<ion of the colRiszlam was handed dowht Nsfter ex1emx1ve henr- ings. as part of theNceneral frslghH rate investigation being eA-ried out ky thef commission The new fRTe structure am fertilizer, fertilizer mate-EaAs and re-i lated articles eliminates zHl speelaK7 rates and places the stzteis fsErliEzsr freight rates on a mileage basRs-
 In it's decision the cgznmES<lrl tpok the position that fertilizer ae a low grade essential commodity which SADwM be given the lowest consistent rzrImg Hn theI general freight structure The cn@-l missions opinion took cpgmizzmce af the federal transportation act Of 1990 whsrh undertakes to assure that im the agxTe- gate railroads shall earn n reasUnAhAs return on the fair va11e of their FrSmA critics under honest efficient and en nOmical management -lnRsmWeh aS th general principle has been definitely am specifically declared by fe6era1 Ax we must accept ii SA fixed Poalcy. the commission stated
 Called Lsw Grade
 In it's decision the cnrnmisSium fmr1A ther stated the principle of dlfferemtintl ing between high grade and low gr1d articles in fixing general scale Gf EzfE Fertilizer was held to be a commsdl entitled to the lowest rating ocm<lzte with sound economy
 In prescribing the new fertilizer raEe reference was made by the cwmmExzia to scales prescribed by the In4Erx1z commerce commission in the MsmFA Southwestern case The osuDEsxla stated We believe that a 5nxa an reasonable scale of rates may he caE structed by observing the Memph Southwestern scale as a guS6e huE Isan somewhat lower leVel, which WE @ # lieve is justified. and changing thsN graduation slightly to conform Dnres nearly to our method of haRnRcInx xhe scales and distributing the burdens ef transportation
 The new scale represents reGancEa1mz to a large number of points in the x4z1E- while in some instances where EztEs were depressed they were rREsSA- Inc following are examples oe the eject ek the new scale-
 
 duced from S1!92 to S1-75 per tam Montgomery to Atmore-, from $259 Sa S2.35 Mobile to DecatHr. from S4 to S405; Mobile to AndRauzla- fruz $2.59 to S2.55: Mobile to HarSseARs from S4.39 to S4-05- Dntham to Sam son, from $1-5S to S1-45- Ds1hzn t1 Brundidge. from S145S to %1-5O= SeamzS to Whitehall. from SPA aD $190: Raa- noke, to Abanda, from S1@z tD 90 osnsx- Larger reductions were mRae i'm S1Imt line hauls; for example the rate frsza from S225 to S19O; MDnrxvm@Ey to, Dadeville. from S2S2 to $25= Mnmq gomery to Glenwood, from $z.T1 S1. .95: Montgomery to Myrtss~s9d from $269 to S2.35; Dothan to Gemezs from S2.59 to S1 .9O- D0than tn CgGs wood. from $212 to Slit
 RaIl Proposal Rejected
 The suggestion of the cRrriers fhzk cotton seed oil cake and neal, ccGHEn- seed hulls. peanut eil cake and meah and soy bean oil cake md meal be Szkgl out of the fertilizer Inst was Ee5scEsa-
 The commission prescribed a mEnR- mum carload weight of 40,000 pounds, except for cottonseed hulls, fer wMlcA the minimum was set at not higher Gh2z 30.000 pounds
 Commissioner Frank F. Morgan rre- pared the report of the cCmmass5o@ Gn the case. which was cCQcurred m by President A G. Patterson and C1uzzEs- sioner Fitzhugh Lee