Item No. 35 Ice (4,000 pounds preservative will be allowed free with each car of ice)... 36 Iron-Band, bar, boiler, sheet, corrugated, horse and mule shoes in kegs, straight or mixed. 37 Iron, scrap and junk, straight or mixed. Bones, hoofs, horn, bottles, old, empty, that have been cable or motor cars, including brakes, bumpers, cable 40 Lime 41 Live stock Rule 1.-When live stock is loaded in cars over 35 Rule 2. The following minimum weights on ship- Cattle (beef or stock) and calves. Sheep and Goats, double deck Hogs, single deck Sheep and goats, single deck Rule 3.-All railroad companies, private companies or individuals, owning or operating a railroad or railroads in the State of Arkansas, are required to furnish a sufficient number of double-decked cars for the shipment of sheep or hogs, to supply the demand for such cars on their respective lines, and to allow shippers to load both decks in said cars with sheep or hogs to the aggregate extent of 20.000 pounds, which cars so loaded shall be received and transported by such railroad companies or private companies or individuals as one car load of stock. It shall not be lawful for said railroad companies, private companies or individuals, to charge or receive for the transportation of double-decked car of sheep more than is charged by such companies or individuals for a car load of stock other than sheep. Should any railroad company, or private company or individuals, owning or operating a railroad or railroads in the State of Arkansas, refuse or neglect to furnish cars as provided in the two preceding sections, it shall not be lawful for them to charge or receive for the transportation of a car of sheep or hogs more than onehalf the rate charged for the shipment of car load of stock other than sheep or hogs. (Act March 25, 1889, Amended Act 112, April 19, 1895.) That whenever any railroad company or corporation doing business within the limits of this State, shall receive and ship any live stock or poultry by the car load, said company or corporation, shall, inconsideration of price paid for said car, pass the shipper or his employe to and from said point designated in the contract or bill of lading without further expense to shipper. (Act 51, March 26, 1895.) 24,000 24,000. 24,000 24,000 24,00 24,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 10,000 10,000 Item 42 The rates prescribed in Railroad Comimssion of Arkansas Standard Freight Distance Tariff, amendments thereto, and in current tariffs covering live stock, will be valid when shippers execute the proper live stock release on the stock contracts of railroad companies. In the transportation of shipper or his employe in the charge of live stock or poultry, the following rules shall be observed: 1. Pass one person each way in charge of one car, any kind of live stock or poultry. 2. Pass one person each way in charge of two to five cars on any kind of live stock when shipped by same party. 3. Pass two persons each way in charge of six to ten cars on any kind of live stock when shipped by same party. 4. Pass three persons each way in charge of eleven or more cars of live stock, which is the maximum number of men that will be passed with stock from one shipper on the same train. The limit for return passes shall be: For shipper or his employe accompanying horses or mules, not to exceed twenty-five days. For accompanying other stock or poultry, twenty days. Lumber rates will apply upon lumber, except walnut. butternut, cherry and woods of value; also on the following articles in straight or mixed C.L.: Base boards. Bed slats. Blocks, corner and base. Blocks, head and plinth. Box lumber or shooks, including scarfed berry box material, in bundles or racks. Cross arms. Curtain poles, in rough, cut to dimensions and turned Guttering, rough. Lath, pine. Lumber, including ceiling, flooring (except wood carpet), wainscoating. match blocks and circus seats (not upholstered nor with backs). Paving blocks. Pickets. Piles.. Rough sawed hewn shapes for agricultural implements and vehicles. Window stools, aprons and hoods. Articles taking higher than lumber rates: Walnut, butternut and cherry lumber and walnut logs Mahogany, holly and woods of value, see Classification. The following articles, when loaded in straight or Sash, glazed with common window glass or unglazed (if glazed, released). Scroll work. Shelves. Shutters, inside and outside. Spindles. Stair work, newels, risers, treads, railings, balusters and post ornaments, K.D. and taken apart. ings. Store fronts. Turned work, entering into the construction of build *Wainscoting. Wash tub covers. Window, door, blinds and screen frames, set up or K.D. Windows, screen. *Window stools, aprons and hoods. The basis for rates on inside finished material will not apply on articles named when polished or varnished. Note The foregoing rates will not apply on the articles named when manufactured from mahogany, rosewood, lignum vitae or other valuable foreign woods. The following articles when loaded in straight or Ax handles, turned. not further finished. Sleigh wood, turned, not otherwise finished. Shapes, for vehicles, dressed. Shapes, for agricultural implements, dressed. Applies when manufactured from woods other than those enumerated above as taking lumber rates. Item Car Loads COMMODITIES. Note. The less car load rate on wooden cross All other articles taking lumber rates and higher Piling, logs, telegraph or telephone poles and other long timbers requiring more than one car, shall be charged for at minimum weight of 20,000 pounds for every car used. 43 Staves, headings and hoops, straight or mixed car loads...... 44 Mattresses, except coiled wire or spiral spring, spring beds and spring bed bottoms, coiled wire or spiral spring.. 45 Packing house products The rates on packing house products will apply on following articles, straight or mixed car loads in ordinary or refrigerator cars, viz.: Bacon, in bags (or separately incased in canvas), barrels, boxes, casks or crates. Beef, dried, loose or in sacks (or separately incased in canvas), boxes, barrels, casks or crates. Beef, pickled; cracklings, cottolene, grease, in buckets, tubs. pails or barrels. Hair, hog's. Hams and shoulders, in bags (or separately incased in canvas), boxes, barrels, crates or casks. rels. Hide and sheep pelts, green. Intestines, hog and beef, uncleaned, in boxes or bar Lard, in crocks, buckets, boxes, barrels, casks or in Lard, leaf, packed or in bulk. Meats, dried or salted, in bags or sacks, (or separately Meats, pickled, in glass, packed in boxes or barrels, Oleo, oil, in barrel or tierces. Pigs feet, packed. Pigs feet, in bulk, to be loaded and unloaded by owner. 24,000 30,000 10,000 20,000 Sausage. dried. or kegs Sausage casings, pickled, in barrels Sheepskin, trimmings, green. Sterine, tails. Tallow, tallow oil. Tripe, in kegs, barrels or casks. It is understood that sheepskin trimmings, green, are points trimmed off the sheepskin after it has been lined, and consists of the ears, nose, hoofs, and other "projections. Note.-Rates shown in above item applying on packing house products will also apply on common soap, boxed, in less car load quantities and in straight car loads. 46 Pottery and Stoneware Eearthenware and stoneware, consisting of churns, crocks, flower pots, jars, jugs and other articles manufactured of Potter's clay, except fire brick, fire clay, sewer pipe and drain tile. 47 Sugar, syrup, molasses, glucose and rice, straight or mixed.. Stone. per ton of 2,000; rough stone, sand, gravel and bauxite.. Salt 48 49 50 Wheat, flax seed, hemp seed, millet seed, Hungarian seed, 20,000 24,000 30,000 24,000 24,000 Item No. COMMODITIES. Car Loads 51 Whisky, wine, and other liquors, in wood, O. R. L., any quantity. 52 Wagons, farm and log 53 MISCEFLANEOUS RATES AND RULES. Rate of three dollars per car will apply on lumber in car 54 Empty beer packages returned. Beer packages, empty, including empty beer bottles, in barrels or boxes, returned to point of shipment, minimum weight of shipments, loaded in refrigerator cars, 15,000 pounds. In other kinds of cars, 20,000 pounds shall be charged one-fourth Class "E" rates, with a maximum charge of 7 cents per 100 pounds, and a minimum charge of $5 per car load. 55 Minimum charge. 57 No shipment, however small, will be taken for less No shipment will be taken for less than 25 cents. When current class rates are lower than the commodity rates 58 Switching charges. The reasonable maximum charge for switching loaded cars to warehouses, elevators and industries, between connecting lines at all points within the State of Arkansas, shall not exceed: 3 miles and under, $3.00. 5 miles and over 3 miles, $3.50 per car. 7 miles and over 5 miles, $4.00 per car. Rule 1.-The above are maximum charges for switching and cannot be exceeded, but railroad companies are at liberty to charge less than said maximum, provided if they charge one shipper less they shall charge all other shippers under substantially similar conditions, the same, and no discrimination shall be made between shippers or industries at the same junction point. Rule 2.-Railroad companies are at liberty to absorb all or any part of switching charges, but if they absorb the charges for switching or any part thereof of any commodity for any shipper, they shall likewise absorb for all other shippers of the same commodity under substantially similar circumstances. Rule 3.-At all junction points and connections of carriers, where railroad companies, by agreement, either express or implied, are charging for switching less than the above maximum they shall continue to maintain such express or implied agreement for switching until otherwise ordered by the Commission. Rule 4.-Switching includes the hauling of loaded cars from station yards, side tracks, elevators or warehouses to the junctions of other railroads when not billed from stations on its own road to said junctions, and from junction of other railroads to the stations, side tracks elevators and warehouses situated on the tracks owned or controlled by the railroad company doing said switching; it is that transfer charge ordinarily made by moving loaded cars for short distances for which no regular waybill is 24,000 |