Railroads: Rates and Regulations

Name: Railroads: Rates and Regulations
Author: Ripley, William Zebina

Ripley, William Zebina

Railroads -- Freight -- Rates -- United States; Railroads and state -- United States

Contrast between the basing point and trunk line
        systems, 380.--Natural causes in southern
        territory, 381.--Economic dependence, 381.--Wide-spread
        water competition, 382.--High level of rates, 382.--The
        basing point system described, 383.--Its economic
        defences, 384.--Early trade centres, 384.--Water
        competition once more, 385.--Three types of
        basing point, 387.--Purely artificial ones
        exemplified, 388.--Different practice among
        railroads, 390.--Attempts at reform, 391.--Western
        _v._ eastern cities, 391.--Effect of recent industrial
        revival, 392.--The Texas group system, 393.--An outcome
        of commercial rivalry, 394.--Local competition of trade
        centres, 395.--Possibly artificial and unstable, 395.--The
        transcontinental rate system, 395.--High level of
        charges, 396.--Water competition, 396.--Carload
        ratings and graded charges, 398.--Competition
        of jobbing centres, 398.--Canadian
        differentials, 400.--"Milling-in-transit" and similar
        practices, 401.--"Floating Cotton," 402.--"Substitution of
        tonnage," 403.--Seaboard differentials, 403.--Historically
        considered, 403.--The latest decision, 403.--Import and
        export rates, 404-409.

                              CHAPTER XII

              THE MOVEMENT OF RATES SINCE 1870; RATE WARS

    Contrast before and after 1900, 411.--Revenue per
        ton mile data, 412.--Their advantages and
        defects, 414.--Nature of the traffic, 416.--Low-grade
        traffic increasing, 416.--Growing diversification of
        tonnage, 418.--Present conditions illustrated, 419.--Length
        of the haul, 421.--The proportion of local and through
        business, 422.--Effect of volume of traffic, 424.--Proper
        use of revenue per ton mile, 425.--Index of actual
        rates, 426.--Its advantages and defects, 427.--Difficulty
        of following rate changes since 1900, 427.--Passenger
        fares, 429.--Freight rates and price movements, 430.

    Improvement in observance of tariffs, 431.--Conditions
        in the eighties, 432.--The depression of
        1893-1897, 433.--Resumption of prosperity in
        1898, 436.--The rate wars of 1903-1906, 438.--Threatened
        disturbances in 1909-1911, 439.

                              CHAPTER XIII

                  THE ACT TO REGULATE COMMERCE OF 1887

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Railroads: Rates and Regulations

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