Report of the transportation bureau of the Merchants' exchange of St. Louis. Submitted to the executive committee, April 12, 1876, and ordered to be printed.

Name: Report of the transportation bureau of the Merchants' exchange of St. Louis. Submitted to the executive committee, April 12, 1876, and ordered to be printed.
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Excerpt from Report of the Transportation Bureau of the Merchants' Exchange of St. Submitted to the Executive Committee, April 12, 1876, and Ordered to Be Printed Pile comparative tables of mileage rates, and see whether the local tariffs of the roads leading from St. Louis, east, west, north and south, were so arranged as to render the traffic of a certain section of country directly tributary to St. Louis also, to see that through rates were not established to discriminate against your merchants. These instructions have been fully carried out, and the Bureau has now, through the kind cc-operation of railroad officials, secured a vast amount of information pertinent to the so-called transportation problem, which cannot fail of being generally and permanently useful and instructive. The correspondence, together with other detail work incidental to carrying out these instructions, has been large and of a varied character, but it has elicited an expression of good feeling to, and sympathy with, your new organization, which is highly encouraging and satisfactory. The officers superintending the Bureau were also directed to investigate closely into the lowest actual cost at which heavy freight could be moved to the Atlantic sea-board, and other places, with the View of ascertaining the practicability of permanent and uniform rates. It was held, and justly, by your com mittee, that Spasmodic cuttings of, and ﬂuctuations in, rates demoralized trade generally, and prevented your mer chants entirely from the investment of capital in undertak ings where profit was mainly contingent on a certain fixed rate of freight; that you realized a Well established fact, viz., that combinations were the inevitable results of un scrupulous, and it might almost be said insane competition for business; and that while you were anxious that the rail road companies should receive reasonable and remunera tive rates, you were also anxious that these rates, when once agreed to, should be uniform and constant, and that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Binding:: Paperback
Languages:: Published: English , Original: English
Number of Pages:: 100
Publisher:: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Publication Date:: 2005-12-20
Weight:: 181 g

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