Show Rate Sheets Puzzle I 1 Novice ovice Complicated form Used byRoads I He was a novice in the matter of railroad rate sheets or tariffs as the railroads are pleased to call them and ho had often otten wondered why it was that rato rate clerks were so often oCten slow In the giving of or a rate for a a. shipment of ot freight when I asked over tho the phone as to th the rte rate from Salt Lake to some som point in another state Mechanically he picked up from the table in a railroad office where ho he was waiting to see the general freight a agent nt what was designated as Western Vestern Freight Tariff A and pages this is 15 what he found in its it lh re w were re named Hi ICO particiPating participating tariffs and tey were di divided divided divided di- di vided Into sixteen groups with wih several several sev sev- eral oral miscellaneous points outside the sixteen groups and pertained to I rates from Chicago St St. Paul Peona Peoria Peo- Peo ria na Dulu Duluth lh Mississippi and Missouri Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- river points and also points designated a as Iowa groups There were also additional points named In m Colorado Indiana Kentucky Oklahoma Wisconsin and between n these points point and Salt Lake and Ogden and points taking tho the same sae rate as these Inspection disclosed the fact that the commodities named in the tariff tar tar- tr- tr iff if numbered 1716 and that the commodities ranged from hydrochloric hydrochloric hydro hydro- acid to oxide of zinc that in addition additon to the Salt Sal Lake and Ogden rate stations took tho the same rate which Included Five Points on the north to Payson on the south and Mounds on the south southeast st and on the northeast that on class rates 1 and A to E B there were ten classes casses from the same points except those classified as intermediate that in addition additon to points taking the Salt Sal I Lake rate were numerous points named to which special lal commodity commodity com com- I rates are named where tho the Salt SaH Lako Lake rate rte does not apply and that arbitrary class rates arc are used In fn connection with class rates are which also named Then he was informed that this this this' is simply one of BOO freight tariffs In the office and that they are be being being being be- be ing supplemented amended cant can- can ing t i P H. H u u LU all are published in I al accordance with the tho rules of the tile interstate commerce commission which specifies specifies fies the size of the paper on which the tho rate sheets shall be printed the size of ot the type to be bo used and the order in which the subject matter matters I Js s arranged with wih respect to participating participating par par- i character Index of ot commodities commodities com corn with a list of ot stations And then he realized why a rate clerk cannot tell tel off of hand just what rate a commodity takes from Salt Sal Lake to Jerusalem like a merchant merchant mer mer- chant can cn state the price of su su- su I gar |