. Freight rates and railway conditions; addresses and correspondence . tance of 300 miles fromany of our large jobbing or distrib-uting centers is approximately threeand one-half cents. A 10 per centincrease would add a little morethan one-third of one cent to thecost of a suit which sells for from$10 to $35. ■^^ Lesson VII. This bale represents the value of thecotton exported from the United States in 1906,namely, $401,000,000. The detached portion represents the bitethe railroads took out of it for freight charges. Ilcost the farmer an average of sixteen centsper hundred pounds to haul this
. Freight rates and railway conditions; addresses and correspondence . tance of 300 miles fromany of our large jobbing or distrib-uting centers is approximately threeand one-half cents. A 10 per centincrease would add a little morethan one-third of one cent to thecost of a suit which sells for from$10 to $35. ■^^ Lesson VII. This bale represents the value of thecotton exported from the United States in 1906,namely, $401,000,000. The detached portion represents the bitethe railroads took out of it for freight charges. Ilcost the farmer an average of sixteen centsper hundred pounds to haul this cotton from hisfarm to the railroad station for shipment, whilethe railroads received an average of only fortycents per hundred pounds for hauling it from pointof shipment to the various seaports for export. In other words, the cost to the farmer ofmoving the cotton from his farm to the railroadstation was more than one-third as much as therailroad charged for transporting it an averageof about 500 miles to the seaboard. ^ X (.Report of Department of Agriculture ). Lesson VIII. The rate on flour from Minne-apolis to New York, in carloads, istwenty-five cents per hundred pounds,or twelve and one-half cents per fifty-pound sack. The flour is sold to the con-sumer in New York at approximately $ per fifty-pound sack. An increase of 10 per cent in freightrates would add but one and one-quarter cents to the price of afifty-pound sack, or a little more than two one-hundredths of onecent per pound. The freight rate on a fifty-pound sack of flourfrom Minneapolis to Chicago is five cents per increase of 10 per cent in rates would add onlyfive mills per sack between these points, or one one-hundredth of one cent per pound.
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