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Title: Railroad freight rates in relation to the industry and commerce of the United States
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: McPherson, Logan Grant, 1863-1925
Subjects: Interstate commerce Railroads
Publisher: New York, Holt
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nt consideration of rates of freightand matters pertaining directly to the transportation offreight. Of the remaining 448, thirteen have beenclassed as miscellaneous. Of these eight are in realitynot complaints, but docket numbers given by the Com-mission, for convenience of reference and filing, to pro-ceedings instituted by it. These numbers cover the in-vestigations, correspondence, and evidence as to rates,practices, accounts, and revenue; car shortage; consoli-dations and combinations; underbilling and misrepre-sentation of freight; the alleged purchase and sale ofcommodities by express companies. Ten of the remain-ing 435 complaints are as to freight classification. Theyapply respectively to roller letter copiers, cement burialvaults, wall paper, oil, wire brushes and brooms, wirecoat hooks, coal tar, cement, multigraphs and hay. These complaints are of trifling importance, exceptthat on hay. The advance of this commodity from the Public Sentiment and Hepburn Bill 283 s: V s o o
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c I F I ^ 1^a ou uu Oi o U u 05 CO w PC4 U o2 C/ih-l HO CA)U OH HH •-^ Slz; HO »-• O COP o o <o H H 284 Railroad Freight Rates sixth to the fifth class of the official classification onJanuary i, 1900, was immediately protested, but thecourts decided that the Commission did not have author-ity to order a change in classification. The complaintwas presented anew on July 17, 1907. At the suggestionof the Commission a conference was held between rep-resentatives of the National Hay Association and repre-sentatives of the railroads between the Mississippi Riverand the Atlantic seaboard. The railroads presentedstatistics showing that for 1907 they had carried 25,000cars of hay, averaging 11.3 tons per car, yielding aver-age earnings per car of $16.77; while they had hauled60,000 cars of grain, averaging 27.8 tons per car, yield-ing average earnings per car of $32.16. The averagehaul per car of hay was 167.4 miles, and the averageearnings per car per mile were 10 cents; while the av

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