CHART 14. PHOSPHATE ROCK-FLORIDA TO PENSACOLA and MontgomerY The rail rate on phosphate rock from Florida phosphate mines near Tampa to Pensacola, on the water, is $4.25. To Montgomery, Ala., in the interior, but about the same distance, the rail rate is $6.33. CHART 15. SODA ASH-FROM DETROIT AND BATON ROUGE TO ST. LOUIS FROM DETROIT TO NEW JERSEY Soda ash is produced in Baton Rouge and Detroit and used widely in industry throughout the country. Because of water competition from Baton Rouge to St. Louis, the rail rate is $5.25 for 653 miles. To permit the Detroit producers to meet their competition in St. Louis, the railroads reduced the Detroit-St. Louis rate from $8.90 (for 473 miles) to $5.25, the same as the Baton Rouge rate. But they still held up the rate from Detroit to S. Kearney. N.J. to $10.15 for 631 miles. CHART 16. PHOSPHATE ROCK-FLORIDA TO GREENSBORO, NC. AND ILLINOIS The Southern Railway is a part of the rail route from Florida to Greensboro— 97 miles for $7.44—and also a part of the route to Plaines Ill. where the railads propose to reduce the rate down to $6.25 for 1,205 miles, less than the Greensboro rate but almost twice the distance. CHART 17. PHOSPHATE ROCK-FLORIDA TO SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORFOLK Florida rock goes by rail 802 miles to Norfolk for $4.95, but the user in Spar tanburg, S.C., pays a rail rate of $6.91 for only two-thirds as much rail service. CHART 18. COAL-SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, SOUTHERN INDIANA, AND WEST KENTUCKY TO MINNEAPOLIS Illinois mines at West Frankfort enjoy a $3.37 freight rate for the 619-me haul to Minneapolis. West Kentucky mines at Madisonville have to pay & for a 700-mile haul. Southern Indiana mines pay $5.02 for 595 miles. |