The Southern Railway carried bananas in 1902–1903 from Charleston to Lynchburg for 20 cents a hundred lbs., but if the fruit stopped at Danville, part way on the road to Lynchburg, the rate was 43 cents a hundred. The road said it had to make low rates at Lynchburg to meet competing bananas coming in by way of Baltimore. The Commission found, however, that the Lynchburg rate was 13 cents lower than the rate justified by competition from Baltimore or elsewhere.[305] It is claimed that railroad discrimination has decreased the taxable values of Danville several hundred thousand dollars from 1900 to 1904. The Danville representative said, “I have heard a great deal about confiscatory rates, fixed by a Commission authorized to fix rates, but I have not heard anything about confiscatory rates fixed by the railroads, whereby the property of the public and of municipalities and taxable values are destroyed; but those facts exist. They exist in my town, and these facts exist in spite of the fact that the city of Danville contributed $100,000 to the building of the Lynchburg and Danville Railroad.”[306] The rate on canned goods from Hoopeston, Ill., to Nashville, Tenn., is 27 cents per hundred. From Hoopeston to Memphis, several hundred miles further, the rate is 19 cents. From Greenwood, Ind., to Nashville the rate is 25 cents, to New Orleans 21 cents, to Mobile 20 cents, and to Memphis 19 cents.[307] The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the Norfolk and Western, and the Baltimore and Ohio, all carry lumber from the Blue Ridge Mountains. The rate from the Shenandoah Valley to Philadelphia is 16 cents per hundred, while from points in the region a hundred miles or so further west the rate is only 14 cents. “The man who is producing lumber to-day on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains, almost within sight of us, must pay 2 cents per hundred lbs. more to get lumber to Philadelphia than the man 50 or 75 miles further west, who gets his lumber transported for 14 cents. Now, 2 cents a hundred lbs. is 40 cents a ton. That is $12 a carload of 30,000 lbs., and that is probably about all the margin of profit there is in lumber of that kind.” All three of the railroads are controlled by one great railroad system, yet they claim that competition among them justifies the lower rate in the region where they cross.[308] The rate on lumber from Chattanooga to Buffalo via Cincinnati is 20 cents, while from Chattanooga to Cleveland, a shorter haul over the same road, it is 23 cents.[309]