The Arizona Rate Case

With the closing of the case before Commissioner Lewis Interstate Conimerce Commission Docket No' 15684e effort to obtain something like favorable rates from rs Angeles Harbor to the inierior of California and also rizona" inaugurated in I. C. C. Docket No. 153O3 and R. C. Casei Nos. 1951 and' 1973 now rests with the two rmmissions having jurisdiction.

I- C. C. Docket No. tSfOl and C. R. C- Case No' 1951 ere initiated by complaint of the Los -{n.g-eles^ Lumber :oducts Compiny vs-. The Southern Pacific-Company' R. C. case N". iqZS is entitled the Madera Sugar Pine )mpany et al vs. the Minarets & Western-Railway Com."y et lt and was combined with C. R' C. No' 1951 as the ;u'es involved were the same. These three cases cover the rli{ornia movement. I. C. C. Docket No. 15684 was ;ainst the interstate movement to Arizona.

The complaints alleged unreas,onable- rates out of Los ngeles Harbor to all p'oints,involved-when compared rvith m'ilar service for.greater distance from other and com:tins points. The- Madera Sugar Pine Company et al akii'g'the same allegations for their mo-vemenl decision as to rvho isright now rests with the and California Railroad Commissions. fur. H. M. Wade of 'San Francisco and Mr. Hof Los Angeles represented the Complainants an mer Wesdake was attorney for the Southern F sisted by Mr. H. C. Hallmark and IlIr- A. A. Joht Gwyn H. Baker of San Francisco ap-peared for tl Sugar Pine Company and others. In- all there an"array of legalialent around the table and the undoubiedly, ivhen decided, result in what has desired by iumbermen, an official and equitable a of the rates in question.

For-instance. the ra-te on lumber from, Westrvood, Cali,rnia, to Sacramento, California, is now 14c for a distance i 317 miles with a haul over the Sierra Nevadas' The rte from the Harbor to San Bernardino--€S miles is l6lc rd the rate from Portland to Los Angeles-l123 miles is )c as against 45c from San Pedro to Phoenix, Arizonai0 miles.

Many interests were concerned and interver Oregon and Northern California l\fills noticeablyexhi-bits were introduced by both sides and it will edly take some considerable time for the Comm disest them and render decision.

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