F. S. A. No. 24319, ACIDS AND CHEMICALS FROM SOUTHWEST TO SOUTHERN TERRITORY, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided July 20, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on acid, acetic, glacial or liquid, and acetic anhydride from Houston and Texas City, Tex., to specified points in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, carload rates the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24320, ACIDS AND CHEMICALS FROM TEXAS CITY, TEX., TO MEMPHIS, TENN., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided July 25, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Acids and Chemicals from Southwest to Memphis, Tenn., 274 I. C. C. 533, amended to include authority to maintain rates over additional routes.

F. S. A. No. 24322, ACETALDEHYDE TO FALL RIVER, MASS., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3708 and 3752. Decided July 14, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on acetaldehyde from Tallant, Okla., Bishop, Houston, Texas City, and Winnie, Tex., tank-car load commodity rates made 30 percent of first-class rates prescribed or approved in Consolidated Southwestern Cases, 205 I. C. C. 601 and 211 I. C. C. 575, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24323, PIG IRON FROM TEXAS TO READING, PA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided July

21, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Daingerfield, Lone Star, and McCrossin, Tex., carload commodity rates on basis of 15.6 percent of first-class rates prescribed in the southwestern revision, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24324, SYNTHETIC RESINS FROM ORANGE, TEX., TO OFFICIAL TERRITORY, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided July 19, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to establish and maintain carload rates constructed on the basis of a distance scale.

F. S. A. No. 24325, PIG IRON FROM DAINgerfield, LonE STAR, AND MCCROSSIN, TEX., to GreensbORO, N. C., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided July 22, 1949. Long-and-shorthaul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain carload rates the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24326, BRICK FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO ALTAVISTA, VA., filed by Norfolk and Western Railway Company for itself and The Virginian Railway Company. Decided August 1, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain commodity rates the same as over the direct route, constructed on basis of scale prescribed in Brick and Clay Products in the South, 88 I. C. C. 543, increased 1 cent under Ex Parte 123, plus subsequent general increases. F. S. A. No. 24330, ASPHALT FROM WINNSBORO, TEX., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3725. Decided July 22, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Asphalt to the South, 215 I. C. C. 525, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, to destinations in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, carload rates the same as from Mt. Pleasant, Tex.

F. S. A. No. 24331, CAUSTIC POTASH FROM CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided July 29, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on caustic potash, in tank-car loads, to Fairfax and Lanett, Ala., Augusta, and West Point, Ga., rates the same as over the direct routes constructed in relation to class rates.

F. S. A. No. 24204, FERTILIZER To Washington, N. C., filed by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Decided May 25, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over the circuitous line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company from Norfolk, Pinners Point, and Portsmouth, Va., a carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24205, Lime from Carlton, Colo., TO THE WEST, filed by L. E. Kipp, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. A-3399. Decided May 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Lime in the West, 222 I. C. C. 653, amended to include authority to maintain to destinations in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, southwestern South Dakota, and southeastern Wyoming, carload rates the same as formerly in effect from Lime Rock, Colo.

F. S. A. No. 24209, ACETALDEHYDE TO SEIPLE, PA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3708 and 3752. Decided May 18, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on acetaldehyde from Bishop, Houston, Texas City, and Winnie, Tex., and Tallant, Okla., tank-car load commodity rates made 30 percent of first-class rates prescribed or approved in Consolidated Southwestern Cases, 205 I. C. C. 601, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24211, SLAG FROM ALABAMA TO MEMPHIS, TENN., filed by Illinois Central Railroad Company. Decided May 23, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Birmingham, Ensley, Pratt City, Thomas, and Woodward, Ala., carload rates the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24213, PHOSPHATIC CLAY FROM FLORIDA TO OFFICIAL AND WESTERN TRUNK LINE TERRITORIES, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to supplement No. 32 to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 940. Decided May 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Dunnellon, Fla., and other points in the hard-rock district of Florida, carload rates constructed on basis prescribed or approved in Kellogg Co. v. Abilene & S. Ry. Co., 273 I. C. C. 311.

F. S. A. No. 24217, Synthetic Rubber frOM TEXAS AND LOUISIANA TO THE SOUTHWEST, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for and on behalf of carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3595 and others. Decided June 7, 1949. Long-andshort-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Houston, Tex., Lake Charles, and Baton Rouge, La., and other producing points in Texas and Louisiana to Springfield and Sikeston, Mo., Helena, Ark., and Lawton, Okla., carlosd rates constructed on basis approximating 22 percent of first-class rates.

F. S. A. No. 24218, SUGAR, INTERMOUNTAIN TERRITORY TO OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS, filed by L. E. Kipp, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. A-3664 and Agent D. Q. Marsh's tariff I. C. C. No. 3529. Decided June 14, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Sugar to Texas, 210 I. C. C. 675, and Sugar to East Texas, 246 I. C. C. 1, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions. carload rates 2 cents less than rates in effect June 30, 1946, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24220, ILMENITE ORE FROM MELBOURNE, FLA., filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 979. Decided June 8, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain carload commodity rates to West Chicago, Ill., Newark and WoodRidge, N. J., constructed on basis of 16.7 percent of the appendix E scale of firstclass rates prescribed in Eastern Class Rate Investigation, 171 I. C. C. 481, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24221, Meat MEAL FROM SOUTHWEST TO ILLINOIS, KANSAS, AND MISSOURI, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3817. Decided June 9, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on con

ditions, to maintain on meat meal, feeding tankage, or dried meat scraps, accorded transit at Dallas, Fort Worth or San Antonio, Tex., from points in Arkansas, Louisiana (west of the Mississippi River), Oklahoma, and Texas, carload distance commodity rates.

F. S. A. No. 24223, Canned Vegetables FROM TEXAS TO OKLAHOMA, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company and other carriers. Decided June 6, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over circuitous routes from Lubbock and Plainview, Tex., to Bartlesville and Tulsa, Okla., carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24224, PIG IRON FROM MCCROSSIN, TEX., TO TRUNK LINE TERRITORY, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company and other carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No.3752. Decided May 26, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on condition, to maintain over additional routes to specified points in trunk-line territory, carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24225, KYANITE FROM CLOVER, S. C., filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 979. Decided May 27, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to Allegany and Frostburg, Md., and Lansdale, Pa., carload commodity rates constructed in relation to rates on like property from Cullen, Va., to the same destinations.

F. S. A. No. 24227, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS TO Augusta, Ga., filed by Roy Pope, agent, for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided June 6, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Gasoline and Kerosene to Augusta, Ga., 234 I. C. C. 43, amended to include authority to maintain on gasoline, kerosene, and other specified petroleum products from Savannah and Port Wentworth, Ga., to Augusta and South Augusta, Ga., a carload rate the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24228, PIG IRON FROM MCCROSSIN, TEX., TO MISSOURI, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3599. Decided May 26, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to specified points in Missouri, carload commodity rates the same as in effect over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24230, LIMESTONE FROM GIANT, S, C., TO GEORGIA, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 998. Decided June 9, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain carload rates to specified points in Georgia, the same as from Pregnall, S. C., described in Sand and Gravel in Southern Territory, 234 I. C. C. 433.

F. S. A. Nos. 24232 and 24233, SCRAP IRON OR STEEL FROM SOUTH TO OFFICIAL TERRITORY, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 950. Decided June 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from points in the South to (a) Middletown, Ohio, the lowest rates that may be constructed over any route on the basis approved in American Steel Abrasives Co. v. Aberdeen & R. R. Co., 269 I. C. C. 525, and (b) to points in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia included in the Pittsburgh, Pa., group, carload rates the same as to Pittsburgh.

F. S. A. No. 24236, CEMENT FROM KINGSport, Tenn., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Southern Railway Company and other carriers. Decided August 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Southern Cement Rates, 132 I. C. C. 427, amended to include authority to maintain on conditions, over circuitous route to Lynchburg, Va., and other stations on the Southern Railway grouped therewith, a carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24238, ACETONE CYANHYDRIN FROM HOUSTON, TEX., TO KNOXVILLE, TENN., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided June 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain for the transportation of acetone cyanhydrin and ethylene, cyanhydrin, tank-car load rates made percentages of the first-class rate prescribed or approved from and to the same points in Consolidated Southwestern Cases, 205 I. C. C. 601, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24240, HEATING OR COOKING APPARATUS FROM CHATTANOOGA, TENN., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Central of Gerogia Railway Company and other carriers. Decided September 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Rates,rom and to Pacific Coast Territory, 192 I. C. C. 153, 196 I. C. C. 197, and 210 I. C. C. 575, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, on heating or cooking apparatus to Pacific coast territory and intermediate points, carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24241, SYNTHETIC RUBBER FROM TEXAS AND LOUISIANA TO DAVENPORT, Iowa, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3595 and others. Decided June 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Baytown, Borger, Houston, and Port Neches, Tex., Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and North Baton Rouge, La., carload rates constructed on the basis of 36 percent of the appendix E scale of first-class rates prescribed in Eastern Class Rate Investigation, 164 I. C. C. 314, and supplemental reports, plus authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24242, Grain from Emmetsburg TO CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, filed by L. E. Kipp, agent, for carriers parties to Grain and Grain Products from Points in Iowa, 245 I. C. C. 783. Decided June 29, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief in the cited proceeding amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, for the transportation of soybeans, grain, and grain products, a carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24243, NATIVE LOGS TO ALTAVISTA, VA., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for and on behalf of Frankfort & Cincinnati Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided September 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Frankfort, Ky., a rate the same as over direct route, constructed in relation to the joint-line scale prescribed in Farris Hardwood Lbr. Co. v. Louisville & N. R. Co., 178 I. C. C. 671.

F. S. A. No. 24244, PIPE FITTINGS TO OFFICIAL TERRITORY, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 971. Decided June 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Various Commodities from South to North, 251 I. C. C. 627, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, from Pell City, Ala., and points grouped therewith to points in official (including Illinois) territory, Ohio River crossings, and Virginia cities, on pipe fittings, copper, brass, bronze, iron or steel, less-than-carload rates made percentages of constructive first-class rates.

F. S. A. No. 24245, FREIGHT, ALL KINDS, TO DALLAS, TEX., filed by Ira D. Dodge, agent, for the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided June 21, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted on conditions, to maintain from Galveston, Houston, and Texas City, carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24246, FREIGHT, ALL KINDS, New Orleans, La., to POINTS IN TEXAS, filed by Ira D. Dodge, agent, for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided July 12, 1949. Long-and-shorthaul relief, Export and Import Rates from and to Gulf Ports, 227 I. C. C. 61, and Commodities Between New Orleans and Texas, 248 I. C. C. 331, amended to include authority to establish and maintain over applicants' routes in-bound coastwise rates proposed in the application.

F. S. A. No. 24248, PIG IRON FROM TEXAS TO SYRACUSE, N. Y., filed by D. Q: Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided June 10, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Daingerfield, McCrossin, and Lone Star, Tex., to Syracuse, N. Y., carload rates constructed on basis of 15.6 percent of first-class rates prescribed or approved in Consolidated Southwestern Cases, 205 I. C. C. 601 and 211 I. C. C. 575, plus authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24255, Sugar FROM GULF AND SOUTH ATLANTIC PORTS, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent W. P. Emerson, Jr.'s tariff I. C. C. No. 380. Decided June 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from New Orleans and other points in Louisiana and Gulfport, Miss., Mobile, Ala., Jacksonville and Pensacola, Fla., Charleston, S. C., Savannah, and Port Wentworth, Ga., to points in Alabama and Georgia described in the application, carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24257, PHOSPHATE ROCK FROM FLORIDA, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company's tariff I. C. C. No. B-3160 and Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company's tariff I. C. C. No. A-8138. Decided June 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Bartow, Fla., and points grouped therewith to Memphis, Tenn., and Hattiesburg, Miss., carload rates the same as over direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24260, FORMALDEHYDE FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO OFFICIAL AND SOUTHERN TERRITORIES, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3708 and 3752. Decided June 21, 1949. Long-and-shorthaul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to Kingsport and Knoxville, Tenn., and specified destinations in official territory, tank-car load rates constructed 30 percent of first-class rates prescribed in Consolidated Southwestern Cases, 205 I. C. C. 601 and 211 I. C. C. 575, plus subsequently authorized general increases. F. S. A. No. 24261, SULPHUR TO MOBILE, ALA., AND EAST MOSS POINT, MISS., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3543. Decided June 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Port Sulphur, La., Bellaire and other specified points in Texas, a carload rate the same as over direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24262, ALUMINUM SULPHATE FROM BASTROP, LA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3595. Decided June 27, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to Pensacola, Fla., Vicksburg, Miss., Memphis, Tenn., and other specified points in Florida and Mississippi, carload rates constructed on basis of a percentage of constructive first-class rates.

F. S. A. No. 24263, Cotton From Baltimore, Md., to THE SOUTH, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for Baltimore Steam Packet Company and carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 754. Decided June 27, 1949. Longand-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over water-rail routes, to points in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, carload rates made with relation to allrail rates.

F. S. A. No. 24264, BRICK, Denver and GoLDEN, COLO., TO Pampa, Tex., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for The Colorado and Southern Railway Company and other carriers. Decided June 29, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted on conditions, to maintain carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24265, PIG IRON FROM TEXAS TO INDIANA and Michigan, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided June 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain