The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-17
Ice. ANNOUNCES
new SCHEDULE FOR
SHIPMENTS IN AREA
Rates for Single and Double
Decked Cars Vary as Do
Minimum Weights
DISTRICT RULES CHANGED
New Mexico and Arizona Re-
ceive Slight Preference in
Some Respects
DISTRICT RULES CHANGED

washington, July 17.SEcThe IN
terstate commerce commission Fri
day ordered revision Of freight rates
in the west on livestock, in most in
stances the changes being reductions.
The rate on cattle and on hogs,
sheep and goats In double = decked
cars was fixed at q minimum Of II
cents q hundred in western trunk
line and southwestern territories.
Increasing one cent every 10 miles
up to 100 miles and beyond this point
by one cent for varying distances.
For calves and hogs in single-decked
cars the minimum was fixed at 12.5
cents and for sheep and goats IN
single decked cars IA cents.
Mountain Rates Higher
In Mountain and Pacific territory
the rate on cattle and on calves: hogs,
sheep and goats in double -decked cars
was fixed at a minimum Of IL cents,
Where shipped in sin~gle-decked
cars, the rate on calves and hogs was
fixed at q minimum Of IA cents and
on sheep and goats, IS cents.
The minimum weight for carload
lots Of stocker and feeder cattle was
fixed at 10000 pounds in southwest
ern territory, New Mexico and Arr
IONA and $4,000 in the remainder OF
the western district.
Minimum weights for calves
throughout the western district on
stocker and feeder hogs was fixed at
5000, single decked. and $4,000. dou-
bled -decked.
For sheep, the minimum weights
throughout the western district were
fixed at 10000 pounds in single
decked and 10000 In double -decked
cars.
Lower on Feeders
The rate on stocker and feeder
cattle shipped ordinarily from
ranches to some place where they
ere prepared for market was fixed at
not to exceed IS per cent of the rates
on fat cattle.
The commission opinion dealt at
length with the situation In the live
stock industry. Agriculture. n OF
u great basic industries" said the
commission. "is probably unique In
that it cannot set the price at which
its product Is sold with relation to the
cost Of production.
cThe price 1t receives is fixed large
" by forces outside its control o
ably not until the industry is so o
ganized by effectively controlling
production that it acquires the same
bargaining power in selling as those
who buy It's product will the problem
of eliminating recurrent linancia!
depressions be permanently solved"
Say Rates Reasonable
The commission said the purpose
Of the Hook Smith resolution, under
which the investigation was MADE
which resulted in the change, was to
assist depressed industry to the x
tent that minimum reasonable rate
levels and properly distributed trans
poration burdens could do. but that
it was not the intent Of congress that
n commodity even though 1t be
one produced by an industry suffering
a financial depression should be
transported by the carriers at less
than reasonable rates.
livestock Is a commodity which.
from its nature, cannot be expected
to do more to pay It's own way: that
is, It cannot sustain q rate level that
will. produce more than the cost OF
rendering the service plus q minimum
of profit" 1t said.
Judged even by these standards.
livestock IN portions OF the western
district is not at present bearing Its
fair share Of the transportation bur-
den and under the rate levels herein
found reasonable 1t will do no more
than meet these minimum require
ments"