. Freight rates and railway conditions; addresses and correspondence . 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 pe
. Freight rates and railway conditions; addresses and correspondence . 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
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