Garland Globe | 1906-09-01 | Page 2 | Extortion is Alleged

EXTORTION IS ALLEGED... M Porto Rlcan Fruit Growers Appeal toi M Executive Council. 1H San Juan, P. II. Tho Porto IUco Fruit Growers' association has ap-, wLI pealed to tho oxecutlvo council jrcfl against tho proposed now freight tariff. Ifl of tho American Railroad company, M which will becomo cffectlvo In Novcni- ofl ber. The association claims that an wfl fdefSase amounting to from 200 to 300 fjj per cent over tho present rate would iH be ruinous to tho development of the fruit Industry. Tho railroad traverses thousands of acres of pineapple and fflH orange lands from which the first wH shipments wero made this year. Un- jH dor the torms of tho company's fran- . KM chlse the powor to fix rates is vested S jH In tho oxecutlvo council. '