. Freight rates . routeseither of rail or water; and the railroads running from Cin-cinnati have always adjusted their rates accordingly. On therail line, for instance, extending southeast from Cincinnatito Charleston, via Chattanooga, Atlanta and Augusta, the in-fluence of eastern buggies was felt wherever a transportationline from the east came in. At Chattanooga it was of slightconsequence, at Atlanta it was important, at Augusta it wasof controlling force, and at Charleston it was rates from Cincinnati increased gradually until afterpassing Atlanta far enough to be affecte
. Freight rates . routeseither of rail or water; and the railroads running from Cin-cinnati have always adjusted their rates accordingly. On therail line, for instance, extending southeast from Cincinnatito Charleston, via Chattanooga, Atlanta and Augusta, the in-fluence of eastern buggies was felt wherever a transportationline from the east came in. At Chattanooga it was of slightconsequence, at Atlanta it was important, at Augusta it wasof controlling force, and at Charleston it was rates from Cincinnati increased gradually until afterpassing Atlanta far enough to be affected by eastern buggiescoming up via Augusta. There the rate reached its maximum,about half way between Atlanta and Augusta. Thence it de-creased, and was the same at Augusta as at Atlanta, and atCharleston it was still lower. He continued by giving a simple illustration makingclear the essential features of nearly every case in theUnited States where competition of routes leads tolower charges upon the longer LQNG-AND-SHORT-HAUL CLAUSE 335 Imagine four cities, N, B, S and W, at the North, East, Southand West points of any closed figure, as a let an eastern railroad run from N through E and Sto W, and a western from N through W and S to E. Thereare then two overlapping routes from N to each of the twoother cities, an eastern and a western. To S they are prac-tically of equal length, but to E the eastern is much theshorter, and to W the western. Let 90 be a reasonable aver-age rate from N foe E or W, and 180 the same to S; or onefor each degree of the circle traversed. Now, if no restriction is placed on competition, the easternroute will not only compete with the western at S, but cleararound to W; and while it could not hope with its longerdistance to do a very large share of the business, yet it mightget some remunerative employment for idle cars and enginesin a dull season. But it could not charge more than 90 for theservice, perhaps not even quite so much,
Size: 1776px × 1406px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectrailroads, bookyear19
