Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1925, Page 2

PAGE TWO NEW TARIFFS TO PAVE WAY FOR MAJOR TRADE EXTENSIONS HERE History of Movement Carried to Successful Con- | clusion by Casper Chamber of Commerce Recited in Report. lated with this recent Wilkerson, ul Freight Ser t the hearing In| siven our cas preparation ted on the fe From Omaba on wi River-Nel | for 600 mit polits. to Colora Missixsippl were emple immediately | of Commerce people of € business man Chamber of C Claude Draper intervention ASSOCIATION REPORT neral Freight Service Assn. e of Casper, April 26th, 1926, of Commerce, und contentions | # Che Casper Sunday Cribune SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1925 ceiver of cz and 1096 miles, respectively, pre- scribed w first class rate from Chi- cago to Casper of 293, or 8 cents over St. Louis, Nothing in the Commission's re. port indicates how the proportional rates from Upper Mississippl River crossings were determined. These rates are used {in computing the through charges on shipments from | all points east of the Indiana-Illinais State line and, therefcre, are of vital importance. The material reductions in these rates will be of immense benefit to your community In fixing the rates on all other classes than first class, the Com- misgion has used the “Grand Island relationship” in every instance. This relationship is extremely favor- able to the jobber and to the re- rload shipments, The bulk of the carload business moves where commodity rates are not in | « ‘ect, on fifth class and class A | and B rates. ‘The percentage rela- tionship of th se classes to the first class rate in the Missourl River-Ne- braska scale and the nd Island scale {sas follow in percentage. Missouri River-Nebraska Scale 5 A B 46 50 40 Grand Island Scale 5 A B 36 43 33 Fifth class carries such commodl- ties.as canned goods, iron and steel, pipe, etc. Class A such commodities as machinery, ofl well supplies, etc., and Class B such commodities as building woodwork,.etc. It is, there- fore, apparent that the use of the and Island scale gives us a much more favorable rate adjustment than a comparison of first class es would indicate Iam attaching a tabulation show- would seem th departed ud sion im. ¢ result of ot by to g enn to the Con the rates t Chi same diff Omaha cor in making on points files will 1 in He udor of ¢ in the so-called decided case Was erefore, was hen our case River-Nebraska rison of (a) the (b)"the Om prescribed by proposition which would average cents and the Commiss A Forbes, Offic Standard Refinery; member Cha ber of Commerce Traffic Committee. | Photo by Dolan. influenced | sentation of | erably Paul, Minnen ra ton » common 50, St t place, ft Commisstor | Examiner ~.. with the rates f | Present | Bxaminer * | Proposed | xangin ile has passed into the duis to Casper d in weste the present If the same formula were adopted Chicago to have been as follow Chteago to Omat and | Omaha ing (a) the present rates, which it will be noted, are*slightly different from the rates in effect when the ease Was presented, this being due to subsequent changes; (b), the rates proposed by the carriers prior to the filing of the complaint with the Commission; (c) the rates proposed by Examiner Jewell; and» (4) the rates preseribed by the Commission. This tabulation will enable you to see, at a glance, what has been achieved by carrying the case to a| conclusion instead of accepting the carriers’ proposals, and I think should dispel any misgiving that may have existed as to the wisdom of your traffic committee In decid ing to have the complaint filed. While it may not be in the best of taste to mention it, I cannot refrain ut this time from calling to mind that when we asked the carriers to establish the compromise rates, they had agreed upon, leaving the ques- tion of filing a complaint with the Commission for subsequent consid- ration, they advised us that if the Casper interests were not satisfied with -what wag offered, they were ready to go to the Commission and were “inclined to the view that they might draw something hixher than that tendered.” Statement showing rates from eastern points to Casper, Wyo., in- volved in ICC Docket No, 00. Statement shows (a) present rates, (b) rates proposed by carriers prior | to filing of complaint, (c) rates rec- »mmended by Examiner Jewell, (4) t bed by I, C. ¢ Mxaminer ... 206 1 TOO cs 214, 182 150 118 Kar Proposed ICO .... Burlington Oponed -.- -.- Oe miner ... IGO), dissiuaka, 186 146 St. Louis e Present ~ Proposed Chi Examiner 100 .. Percents The following stdtement shows the avers new ates and the reductions: AVERAGE 1 relationships | Casper Chamber of Comm . exhibits, data and ence acquired, by the local Chamber which was Commission Reductions Effected Rates—Less Car Loads Of course, the C Commerce is more inter reductions Commission's By Prescribed sted in what making or that caused the Cc its conclusions. briefly as possible, mmission to re: movements interested, particulars and 1 Less-than-carload almcst entire ductions under cents per 100 pounds, as follows: from Omaha. necessitate considerable uctions from points be determined until a check*of the recollecticn quite a loess-carload S. Mechling, Manager People's of Commer CLASSES ages of the present movement of meats and; .pack house products from Omat Denver on all four c freight char reduced from 27¢ to 38e per 100 pounds, and it seems to me that this reduction from Omaha should force corresponding reduction in the price of Denver good From ie tefritory lying between the Missouri river and St. Paul, St. Louls and Chicago, there will be re- duetions varying in amounts from the amounts of the Missourt river reductions to the amounts of the st. Paul, St. Louls and Chicago reduc: tions, It will be necessary to grade the rates in this Interior territory in Missourl, Towa, Minnesofa, Iinols, and Wisconsin up from the Omaha and Kansas City rates to the St. Paul, Louis and Chicago rates, but the exact amount of the redue- tions cafinot be determined until a complete rate check is made. Your dry goods, notions, boots and shoe jonery, paper goods, all first- class freight, will be reduged from Chicago 68c, “und from St. Louls 4gc, I believe rome of your mer- chants get knit goods from St. Paul and the reductions on this is 88i4¢ a little over 25 per cent.. Hardware from St. 1 is second class, re duction The proportional rates prescribed from Mississippi river crossings will apply on traffic from all points east of the Illinol#-Indiana state line as far as the Atlantic coast. Rates on this triffic are made by combining the rates to the Mississippi river with the rate west thereof. ‘The re- ction in this rate, which, by the w is greatest reduction of all, will affect probably a larger LCL movement than any other, and should be of immense benefit to the community, It should be the means of enabling your merchants to buy Claude Parker, Manager F Bros. Cigar and To! them- ber Chamber of Commerce Traffic Committee. Photo by Dolan, rker much more ‘freely turerg in the east « termediate jobbing corts at Chicago, St. Louls and Missouri river points: A typical example of the operation of this reduction is as follows: New York to Miss. River ... Miss, River to Casper New York to Miss. River -. Miss, River to Casper Reduction oat You will save nearly and shoes, clothing, haberdashery, shipped from’ the eastern state Reduce as follows: Omaha Kansas-Cit St. Paul . Burlington Saint Louis Chicago Miss, River F sas, Nebras ete, precise exists as described heretofore in connection with LCL traf vizt the new rates will have to be grad- ed and the exact.amount of reduc | t one terri ictions ure, to in han the LCL reductions. For in stance, the Chicago fifth class is re- duced 30 per cent, the St. Paul fifth class rate nearly 40 per cent, the Mississippi Miver proportional fifth clase rate nearly 42 per cent. On a 10,000-1b. car of automobiles from Det the present rate is 456%, rate 336%, a saving of $109, £5 per cent. On a 40,000 anned goods from Sac Walter A. Schultz, Manager Cas per Branch McCord-Brad) |ber Chamber of Commerce Traffte Committee, Photo by Dolan, As to intermediate territory in Towa, Missouri, e@ same situation CASPER FREIGHT RATE VICTORY ANALYZED IN REPORT WHOLESALERS _ AEAPBENEFITS Great Saving. Is Made Possible for All Shippers. City, Iowa, present rate 1 new rate 84%. a saving of $154, a saving of over 30 per cent. Grapes, 20 000 Ibs., from Benton Harbor, Mich., present 265, aving of $82, about 16 per c Hardware, \ er Casy Brown Mere. Co, member Chambe of Commerce ‘Traffic Committee. Photo by Dolan, 36,000 Ibs., from St. Louis, present 2503%, new 200, a saving of $109.80, about 18 per cent. Stoves, 40,000 Ibs., from St. Louis, present 149, new 103, a saving of $184, about .31 per cent. tHeaters, 30,000 Ibs., from Pittsburgh, present 2, new 15844, a saving of $1 about 22 per cent. In this comment, I have had in mind solely such carload traffic as moved on full class rates. I am attaching a-tabulation of the com modities which were contained {uv the exhibits filed in our cuse show- ing thé present rates regardless of whether such rate was a class or commodity rate. Opposite each item I have shown the new. class rate ap- plicable to that artlle for the pure pose of showing thut the new'class rates aro, in many instances, lower than the present comod! ates. In the few instances where no new rates are shown, the new class rates will not mean that there will be no reductions on such commodities nor that the new class rates shown will in all ingtances represent the entire rate reduction to be established. Under the comission’s order, we are entitled to a revision of commodity rates, but I will discuss this later, or PRESENT RATES 489% 416% 334 25014 $14 201 -- 9716 79 6544 per pound on all the dry goods, boots drugs, stationery and like. traffic, ons Effected by Prescribed Rates—Carloads The reductions in the carload class rates 5 38% 41 54 4644 3945 45 ty 58 5s merely saying at this point that the commission's order will force a sub- 8 ntial reduction in every freight rate into Casper from territo: of Gr i Island and FE Commodity Rates, The ¢ t | cor v t Is [ other commodities should ab hed or revised wher ne to afford per a fair basis omparison with points with which it competes, observing sub- stanially the samo relationship here- in, prescribed in connection with the class rates. 1f sich revision is not made within a reasonable time by defendants, the matter may again ve beought to our atention.” There is no escaping the intent of the comission in this sentence. We ship" might be susceptible of differ interpretations, but I think a falr truction of language and what are to have, in respect to commodity rafes, a fair basis with competing cities observing the, ‘class relatiorm ship.” The words “‘class relation- the commission means is that the lationship of the prescribed Casper class to the class rates applicable, say to Denver, is to be the guide ir establishing new commodity rates to Casper, To illustrate: wire and nally are classified 5th cless, but there are commodity rates from Chicago to Denver as follows Minimum weight, 40,000 Ibs, 93¢ Minimum weight, 80,000 Ibe., 84c. The relationship of the 5th class rates will be as follows: Chicago to Denver rate 102 Chicago to Casper, rate 105 or 163 Per cent. We should, therefore, have rates from Chicago to Casper on wire and hails on the basis of 103 per cent of Chicago to Denver commodity rate ot— Minimum walght, 40,000 Tbs, 9¢c. Minimum weight, 80,000 Ibs., 8$'%40. There is golng to be considerable work involved in checking out these commodity rates and the eoopern | (Continued on L