Ellis and Company of Chicago received a car of tomatoes from Gibson, Tenn., 522 miles away, and another from New Orleans, 923 miles distant. The first was a Trust car with $74 icing charge; the other was an Illinois Central car with $15 icing charge. That is, the Trust charge was 5 times as great as the railroad charge, though the railroad car came 400 miles further, nearly double the distance in fact that the Trust car covered. Grapes have been shipped from the New York grape field to Boston in Vanderbilt refrigerator cars without any icing charge, while shipments in Trust cars between the same points in the same month paid $22 for ice. The Michigan Central has given notice that it has withdrawn from the Armour contract and will handle Michigan fruit products in its own cars supplying ice at cost which it says is $2.50 per ton. So the man who can ship over the Michigan Central will get a rate of $15 to $25 a car to Boston, while the man who has to use the Pere Marquette will pay $45 a car for ice.[283] Two Boston men recently (1905) had occasion to order each a carload of peaches from Michigan points some 20 miles apart. One car came from Coloma over the Pere Marquette with Armour charges of $45, while the other car came from Eau Claire over the Michigan Central with the same freight rate, but only $13.13 for icing,—$5.63 for the original icing, $5 for re-icing at Collingwood, and $2.50 for re-icing at West Seneca. A year ago, before the Armour contract with the Michigan Central expired, the icing charge on both railroads was $55 to Boston; now the Armour charge has come down to $45, but the Armour charge for ice in the case just stated was $9 a ton while the Vanderbilt railroads charged only $2.50 a ton, which last the Interstate Commission in a recent case has held to be a just and reasonable charge.[284] There are no icing charges on dairy products. The ice is paid for by the car company and the railroad. It takes as much ice for dairy products as for fruit, but the Trust is carrying its own goods in this field mostly and not the goods of other shippers, and so it has not felt the need of changing the original arrangement in respect to ice.