. Freight rates . 500 miles. Therates range from 11 cents on first-class traffic for 5 milesto 55 cents per 100 pounds for 500 miles, and this scalehad been in effect as a whole for many years, althougli inspecific instances the rates had been advanced in onecase and reduced in others. Concurrent with the advance in freight rates through-out Official Classification Territory sanctioned by tlieInterstate Commerce Commission recently, the railroadcommission of the state of ^Michigan authorized a gen-eral readjustment of the existing class rates obtaining inthat state. Tlie rates currently in eff
. Freight rates . 500 miles. Therates range from 11 cents on first-class traffic for 5 milesto 55 cents per 100 pounds for 500 miles, and this scalehad been in effect as a whole for many years, althougli inspecific instances the rates had been advanced in onecase and reduced in others. Concurrent with the advance in freight rates through-out Official Classification Territory sanctioned by tlieInterstate Commerce Commission recently, the railroadcommission of the state of ^Michigan authorized a gen-eral readjustment of the existing class rates obtaining inthat state. Tlie rates currently in effect are reproducedin Table 2A. In sanctioning this increase, however, the Michigancommission, owing to the fact that it has been allegedthat many points in the state were enjoying preferentialrates occasioned by the disregard of distance in some in-stances, required carriers to recheck the entire state ratestructure, with the result that the larger portion of theadvance in rates in Michigan is due to this Ol T-H t—< 1^ 1—( T^ CO *-^ !«5i -< pa«pQ m w m P3« 22 FREIGHT RATES—OFFICIAL TERRITORY To serve this end, the carriers tabulated the result oftheir labor in a publication which, although in the form ofa basing book, is filed with the Michigan commission andthe Interstate Commerce Commission and is used as a TABLE 2A^Michigan Class-Rate Scale Classes Distance 1 2 3 J4 5 6 R25 R26 R28 5 miles 20 12 17 13 10 miles 21 16 9 7 18 13 15 miles 22 13 9 7 13 14 20 miles 27 23 14 15 25 miles 28 24 19 14 10 8 15 16 30 miles 29 25 8 35 miles 31 26 11 22 40 miles 32 27 16 9 23 17 18 45 miles 33 28 22 9 24 50 miles 29 23 17 12 19 55 miles 35 30 18 10 19 20 60 miles 18 10 26 19 20 70 miles 13 10 27 80 32 25 19
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