. Railroads, rates and regulation . e still from the complications of competition of markets,are not common, but occasionally arise. Chattanooga, whichaspires to be the commercial and industrial centre of easternTennessee, is about 150 miles southeast of Nashville, as showniby the accompanying sketch map. Owing to the south-western trend of the Appalachian Mountain valleys, it is only846 miles from New York by rail, almost as the crow flies; whileNashville has access to the North principally through Ohio river ^ Cf. the opinion in the Savannah FertiUzer case in our Railway Prob-lems, chap. Xn.
. Railroads, rates and regulation . e still from the complications of competition of markets,are not common, but occasionally arise. Chattanooga, whichaspires to be the commercial and industrial centre of easternTennessee, is about 150 miles southeast of Nashville, as showniby the accompanying sketch map. Owing to the south-western trend of the Appalachian Mountain valleys, it is only846 miles from New York by rail, almost as the crow flies; whileNashville has access to the North principally through Ohio river ^ Cf. the opinion in the Savannah FertiUzer case in our Railway Prob-lems, chap. Xn. ^ Chapter XI, infra, also in volume II. LOCAL DISCRIMINATION 229 gateways, over lines, at the best, 1,058 miles in length. Bythese lines, therefore, the latter is 212 miles further from New-York than Chattanooga. But the two competitive places areonly 151 miles apart; whence it follows that the shortest pos-sible all-rail line from New York to Nashville, swings around tothe south by way of Chattanooga. The situation is complicated. by other combined rail and water routes from New York throughNorfolk, Savannah, and Charleston. But all these lines alsoreach Nashville by coming up through Chattanooga. Fromevery point of view, therefore, Chattanooga, on the basis ofmileage, is the nearer point to New York — 151 miles nearer bythe direct line, all rail; equally nearer by all combined rail andwater routes: and 212 miles nearer than is Nashville by theroundabout all-rail lines through Louisville or Cincinnati. Itslocation corresponds to X in our second variation of the oystercase; namely, an intermediate point on the direct line to 230 RAILROADS another more distant point Y, which latter enjoys the compe-tition of more roundabout routes. The disability against Chattanooga, against which it pro-tested, was substantial.^ Its first-class rate from New Yorkwas $ per hundred pounds, while Nashville paid only nine-ty-one cents. On various commodities the Chattanooga rateswere from tw
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