The principal biscuit company receives from $8 to $16 per 100 pounds for its crackers and cakes, averaging $10 per 100 pounds for its leading brand. From its New York plant to Boston the freight rates are 19 cents per 100 pounds, to Atlanta 62 cents. The rate from Chicago to Montgomery is 69 cents, to Houston 81 cents, to Denver 97 cents. From either New York or Chicago to the Pacific Coast the rate is $1.60. These rates apply to carload lots, all goods being sold delivered, the company absorbing the freight. The retail price is the same all over the United States as it is with shoes, cigars, soap, proprietary medicines and dozens of other familiar articles. On cotton, the great staple product of the South, the freight rate structure has been in process of development even a longer time than that affecting the movement of grain from the West. From the plantation into Memphis, the largest inland cotton center of the United States, a typical rate is 30 cents per 100 pounds for one hundred and fifty miles. From Memphis to Boston the rate is 57½ cents, and from Memphis to the Gulf 30 cents per 100 pounds. From Augusta, Ga., a central market of the Eastern cotton growing district, the rate to Charleston and Savannah is 21 cents, to Brunswick 23 cents and to Norfolk 26 cents per 100 pounds. A bale of cotton contains five hundred pounds and is therefore worth, at 11 cents a pound, $55. The aggregate transportation charge on this bale from the plantation, one hundred and fifty miles from Memphis, to Boston, is $4.27. Mainly because of the rapid shifting of the sources of supply, there has not yet been developed a stable structure of rates for the movement of lumber in all parts of the United States. By way of illustration, however, it may be said that a fair average rate on lumber into Memphis from the forests of Arkansas is six cents per 100 pounds, or $2.40 per 1,000 feet. Lumber going from Memphis to New Orleans for export will pay $4.80, or a total transportation charge from the forest of $7.20 per 1,000 feet. A fair average rate to the markets in Ohio and Indiana is $8 per 1,000 feet, a total transportation charge from the forest of $10.40. This is on the kind of lumber that in 1905 and 1906 sold at about $40. The rate on yellow pine from New Orleans to Chicago is 24 cents per 100 pounds.