are standard and diferenol C-C on rail-lake-and-rail routes. Temporary relief was authorized by order no. 11343.

The rates proposed are the same is, or are differentially related to sixth class or column 23 rates from Bangor or Portland. They reflect an effort to enable Maine shippers to reach the destination territory on a fair competitive basis, and it is represented that they are the result of agreements between shipper and carrier representatives. Since the rates are differentially related to class rates, it follows that fourth-section relief is necessary if the proposed bases are to be maintained, since relief has been granted in connection with the class rates. As in the case of newsprint rates, departures occur in rates over direct and indirect routes, the same destination grouping is observed, and all departures are found at points of destination. Applicants' prayer for relief free from the equidistant provision of section 4 is based on the same grounds urged in the case of newsprint

rates.

This adjustment may be illustrated by the following examples showing rates from and to representative points. Revenue statements are based on carloads of 36,000 pounds. The rate on paper from Millinocket to Newark, N. J., is 37 cents over the lines of the Bangor & Aroostook to Brownville Junction, Canadian Pacific to Delson, Quebec. Napierville Junction Railway Company to Rouses Point, N. Y., Delaware & Hudson to Wilkes-Barre, thence Pennsylvania. Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Reading, Pa., are intermediate points taking 38-cent and 39-cent rates. This route is 12 percent circuitous, is 959 miles in length, and the 37-cent rate yields 7.7 mills per ton-mile and 13.9 cents per car-mile.

From Rumford, Maine, to Peoria, the rate on boards is 43 cents. Over the lines of the Maine Central to Portland, Boston & Maine to Northampton, Mass., the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company to Harlem River, N. Y., Lehigh Valley Railroad Company to Buffalo, the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company to Chicago, thence Chicago & North Western, 1,577 miles, Limestone and Manlius, Ill., are intermediate points to which the rate is 44 cents. This route is 26 percent circuitous, and the Peoria rate yields 5.45 mills per ton-mile and 13.63 cents per car-mile. The rate on paper, here considered, from and to the same points is 4 cents higher.

An all-rail differential departure rate is found in the 37-cent rate on boards from Rumford to Peru, Ind., applying over the lines of the Maine Central, Canadian Pacific, Pere Marquette Railway Company, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company through St. Johnsbury, Vt., Detroit and La Crosse, Ind., 1,284 miles, North Judson and New Buffalo, Ind., being intermediate and taking a 38

cent rate. This route is 15 percent circuitous. The rate to Peru yields 5.76 mills per ton-mile and 10.37 cents per car-mile.

A representative differential rail-lake-and-rail situation is found in the rate of 39 cents on boards from Rumford to Effingham, Ill. Over the lines of the Maine Central to North Stratford, N. H., Grand Trunk Railway system and Canadian National to Depot Harbor, Ontario, Canada Atlantic Transit Company of United States to Chicago, thence Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, 1,524 miles, Shumway and Sullivan, Ill., are intermediate and take a rate of 40 cents. The 39-cent rate yields 5.12 mills per ton-mile and 9.21 cents per car-mile. These proposed rates and earnings thereunder are compensatory.

DISHES, PLATES, AND TRAYS FROM MAINE

In application no. 15330, as amended, Agents Frank Van Ummersen, W. S. Curlett, B. T. Jones, and C. W. Galligan for and on behalf of carriers parties to Van Ummersen's tariffs I. C. C. nos. 160 and 200 apply for authority to establish and maintain commodity rates on pulpboard or wood-pulp dishes, plates, and trays, in carloads, minimum 24,000 pounds, subject to rule 34 of official classification, from Waterville and Oldtown, Maine, to destinations in central and Illinois territories over all-rail, rail-and-lake, and rail-lake-and-rail routes named in Maine Central tariff I. C. C. no. C-4340, without observing the long-and-short-haul provision of section 4 of the act. Temporary relief was authorized by supplemental order no. 11448.

Applicants propose rates from Waterville the same as the column 32.5 class rates from Portland, observing the full column 32.5 class rates to Pittsburgh or Youngstown, whichever is higher, as minimum. From Oldtown, rates would be made uniformly 2 cents higher than those from Waterville. Over rail-and-water routes the recognized class-rate differentials under the all-rail routes will be observed and grouping at destination points is the same as that heretofore described. Under the adjustment, no departures will occur at intermediate origin points and destination departures are the same as those present in fifth-class rates from Portland. Relief free from the equidistant provision is sought.

Prior to December 3, 1931, the effective date of the rates prescribed in Eastern Class Rate Investigation, supra, Waterville and Oldtown were in the Boston rate group on traffic to central and Illinois territories. Dishes, plates, and trays are fifth-class articles and formerly moved at those rates. Following the class-rate adjustment, Waterville and Oldtown were placed in the higher-rated Bangor group. The proposed adjustment herein is an effort to restore somewhat the

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Basis of rates on paper and boards proposed in application no. 15203
The basis for the proposed rates over all-rail routes is as follows:
To destinations in trunk-line territory:

(1) From Madawaska, Maine, on the Bangor & Aroostook:

(a) On paper, etc., rates 6 cents per 100 pounds higher than the sixth-class rates published from Bangor, Maine, pursuant to the eastern class-rate revision.

(b) On boards, etc., rates uniformly 3 cents per 100 pounds less than rates on paper, etc., mentioned in item (a).

(2) From Millinocket, East Millinocket, Searsport, and Woodland,

Maine:

(a) On paper, etc., and boards, etc., rates uniformly 3 cents per 100 pounds less than rates in item (1) from Madawaska, Maine.

3) To destinations in central, Illinois, and western trunk-line (extended zone C) territories:

(1) From Augusta, Fairfield, Gardiner, Livermore Falls, Madison, Rumford, and Waterville, Maine, rates on paper, etc. and boards, etc., the same as the sixth-class rates and column 25 rates, respectively, from Portland, Maine, issued in compliance with the orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Dockets 15879 and 17000, Part 2, except that over the standard all-rail routes the full class rates from above points of origin to Pittsburgh, Pa., and Youngstown, Ohio, will be held as minimum rates.

(2) From Enfield, Howland, Lincoln, Orono, South Brewer, and West Enfield, Maine, rates on paper, etc. and boards, etc. uniformly 2 cents per 100 pounds higher than those in item 1 from Augusta, Maine, etc.

(3) From Madawaska, Maine:

(a) On paper, etc., rates 5 cents per 100 pounds higher than the sixth-class rates published from Bangor, Maine, in compliance with orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Dockets 15879 and 17000, Part 2.

(b) On boards, etc., rates uniformly 3 cents per 100 pounds less than those in item (a) immediately above on paper, etc.

(4) From Millinocket, East Millinocket, Searsport, and Woodland, Maine, rates uniformly 3 cents per 100 pounds less than rates in items (b), (3), (a) and (b), from Madawaska, Maine.

Over rail-and-lake and rail-lake-and-rail routes the same relationships will be maintained, i. e., the recognized class-rate differentials under the all-rail rates. 219 I. C. C.