. Railway problems; . thence by water and rail to New York, was, at thetime of the hearing, 211 cents per hundred pounds. The de-fendant apparently published no through rate from St. Cloudto New York, but applied to such shipments its local ratesfrom St. Cloud to Duluth or Superior, in combination with thethrough rate from those cities to New York. The local ratefrom St. Cloud was 12 cents, and the through rate from Duluth161^ cents, making the rate from St. Cloud to New York 28^cents. Flour from St. Paul to New York by the defendants line ^ Decided November 29, 1899. Interstate Commerce Repor
. Railway problems; . thence by water and rail to New York, was, at thetime of the hearing, 211 cents per hundred pounds. The de-fendant apparently published no through rate from St. Cloudto New York, but applied to such shipments its local ratesfrom St. Cloud to Duluth or Superior, in combination with thethrough rate from those cities to New York. The local ratefrom St. Cloud was 12 cents, and the through rate from Duluth161^ cents, making the rate from St. Cloud to New York 28^cents. Flour from St. Paul to New York by the defendants line ^ Decided November 29, 1899. Interstate Commerce Reports, Vol. VIII,pp. 346-363. The Long and Short Haul Clause is discussed in Ripleys Rail-roads : Rates and Regulation, chap. xix. 297 •JPS |;\1I.\\A\ jKissis tlirou>j;li St. (loud. It was conceded by the defendantthat its division of the tlnougli flour rate from St. Paul yieldedit altout ;).3T5 cents per hundred pounds, as against 12 cents])er huii(hed pounds when tlie tvansj)ortation was from St. The rates on coal from Duluth to St. Cloud are, soft per ton, hard coal i| per ton ; to St. Paul .| perton for hard coal and 75 cents for soft coal. The transportationin the latter case is through St. Cloud. There are three lines of railroad, besides that of the defend-ant, connecting St. Paul and Minneapolis with Duluth and THE ST. CLOUD CASE 299 Superior,—namely: the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha,distance 179 miles; the St. Paul & Duluth, 160 miles ; the GreatNorthern, over the Eastern Minnesota, 169 miles. It was alsosaid that the Great Northern had in process of construction aline by which the distance would be somewhat reduced. Largequantities of freight move between these points, and these threelines are active competitors for tliis traffic. The rail lines fromSt. Paul to Duluth in connection with water lines upon theGreat Lakes furnish a means of communication between and the northwest and the Atlantic seaboard and the
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