The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-11-17
BUSINESS MEN CAN
SAVE TIDY SUM
Promoters Claim Truck Ser
vice Will Reduce Trans
p0rtati0n
IMPORTANT MEETING
Proposition to Be Fully Ex-
planned at Community /
Club Friday Evening

Sauk Centre businessmen are
becoming actively interested in
the hearing the Minnesota Rail
road and Warehouse Commission
will hold in this city Tuesday,
Nov. 22, in the petition of Ray
mond Bros, Motor Transportation
Co., to be allowed to extend their
truck service from st. Cloud to
Sauk Centre on Highway No. 8
and west to Browerville on High
way No. 4.
When the matter of extending
the service to this city was heard
in June, 1926, the plan was to
include Alexandria. Alexandria
was opposed to the extension for
= the very good reason that that city
had a big advantage over Sauk
Centre because of the order issued
blythe Interstate Commerce Com
mission, effective September, 1925,
in the so-called Watertown- Fargo
discrimination rate case.
AS the Herald has recounted
many times Alexandria was not
designated as a iobbing center,
while Sauk Centre was. Under ex-
isting conditions a 100 pounds of
merchandise can be shipped from
Alex to this city at much less rate
than the same merchandise can
be shipped from Sauk Centre to
Alexandria.
The Minnesota Railroad and
Warehouse Commission protested
strenuously against the Interstate
Commerce Commissions order. The
matter was taken into Court and
the following paragraph from the
decision is the crux of the findings
We see no escape from the
conclusion that the Courts of
this State cannot compel re-
spondents (raiiroads) to cease
to charge rates authorized by
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, although as conse-
quence, the whole structure
of intrastate Class rates is
disturbed and glaring inequal-
tiles are, created"
The Court concluded:
The Interstate Commerce
Commission need not observe
the requirements of the Cash
man Act. The Railroad and
Warehouse Commission must
do SO as long as the Act is in
effect"
In discussing the rate discrim-
nations caused by the Watertown-
Fargo order of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, the Min
nesota Railroad and Warehouse
commission calls particular at
tention to the situation at Sauk
Centre. Both Freeport and Sauk
Centre have small flour mills
Flour moves from Freeport to
Clarissa, a distance of 46 miles,
through Sank Centre at less than
car load rate of 16 cents per hun.
dred; while from Sauk Centre to
Clarissa, a distance of only 80
miles, the rate is "a cents. The
report further says:
These inequalities in rates
effect not only the distributor
in relation with his competitor
from Minnesota points into
the territory affected, but
also the retailers situated in
towns adjoining each other
but separated by the artificial
breaking point of rates es-
tablished under the Fargo and
Watertown decision. The
same sharp differential in
rates between the points af-
fected also applies as between
incoming and outgoing NOV
ing opposite directions.
These incongruities in the
rail structure in Minnesota
are cited as circumstances
which undoubtedly had the
effect of creating support for
truck operation in Minnesota.
The railroads are not satisfied,
even yet, and there is a petition