A General Freight And Passenger Post; a Practical Solution of the Railroad Problem
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" From St. Louis to Hillendah, 1073 miles, the oil rate is 55 cents a hundred, for a car of 24,000 pounds, f 132 ; to Houston, eleven miles farther on, the rate is but ^iTik cents, or $80 a car. The rate for the shorter distance is $52 greater, or nearly seventy per cent, greater than for the longer. From Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, the rate is $43.20 per car; to La Branch, nineteen miles from New Orleans, $98.40." — Trusts, George Rice. The truth of Mr. Rice's statements as to the poor pr...oduct and high prices of this trust is corrob- orated by the revolt of the merchants of Western Massachusetts against the monopoly, inaugurated early in January, 1898. Writing under date of January, 3, 1898, the Springfield correspondent of the New York World said that after numerous complaints by their customers — complaints that had extended over many months — upwards of a hundred dealers had determined to free themselves from the monopoly and to buy oil of independent refineries, of whom they knew by experience better AND PASSENGER POST.
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