Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1903 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

Lake Shore officials announce that their large freight yards at Elkhart, Ind., and Collin wood, Ohio, are now open. Import rates will be higher next year. All the Atlantic port rail lines have assented to the advance of 10 per cent in the inland rates. Shipments of oranges from California this season are estimated at 28,000 to 30,000 car loads.' Last year they were 23,000 car louds. From 1894 to 1903 the freight traffic of the United States—the number of tons carried one mile—increased from 80,335,000 to 157,289,000. It is announced in Chicago that the officers of the roads operating west of Chicago are determined to inaugurate a reform in the system of reserving Pullg>nn berths in advance. Articles of consolidation of the Youngstown and Southern and the Youngstown and Salem, under the name of the former, have Wen Hied with the Secretary of State of Ohio. The Texas railroad commission has ruled that certificates of weight on cotton from point -of shipment to destination shnll take precedence and then affidavits of fail roads and consignee in the order named. A joint conference was held In New York last week between the import committee of the trunk Hue association and a numtffir of traffic officials of western roads. The objoct of the meeting was to fix all import rates on a stable basis, such as will prevent the shipment of foreign gjpds to points In the West at a lower ratfs than Is made for the mams class of articles from points In this country. It was agreed to establish a fixed tariff of rates from till ports with the rates from Baltimore as the basis, the golf railroads to have a 10 per cent differential In their favor.