Before the Interstate Commerce Commission, Cement

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Excerpt from Before the Interstate Commerce Commission, Cement: Informal Presentation in the Matter of Discrimination Against the City and Port of Philadelphia, in Railroad Freight Rates for Transportation of Portland Cement, Philadelphia, December 19, 1908Summary. - Geographically, economically, and equitably, Philadelphia should be the center of distribution for an immense volume of Pennsylvania Portland Cement. Phila delphia is the nearest seaboard point to the mills. It is 21 miles nearer to the center of the Lehigh District than is Jersey City, which is the second nearest seaboard point. The grades are easy, and the facilities for handling this commodity in Philadelphia are fully as economical as those in any other port. Yet it is found that this commodity does not come to Philadelphia for distribution at all, and that a ton of cement costs 550. More to Philadelphia consumers who must use it, than it costs the consumer in Jersey City or vicinity, and say 250. More than it costs the consumer in New York City. There are no legitimate grounds for the existence of such a state of affairs.The docks at Jersey City, and Hoboken (port of New York) are constantly availed of for the transshipment of Port land Cement from the inland carrier to the ocean carrier with all the activities that this implies, while not a ton of cement comes through Philadelphia to be forwarded to its ultimate destination by water.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.