Both the citizens and the city have been greatly 

 benefited by the operation. They expect to do even a 

 larger business next winter, and are so well pleased 

 with the way the thing has worked out that they hope 

 to make it a permanent institution. 



Many other towns on the range have established city 

 yards on one system or another, but none of the others 

 are so well organized or so well operated as the one 

 in Virginia. 



THE RAILROADS AND THE CORD 

 WOOD RATE 



THE intricacies of railroad rate making have been 

 too much for many a legislature, state commis- 

 sions, courts and fabulous-priced experts. There does 

 not seem to be anyone who understands them as a 

 whole, although in certain individual cases their cause, 

 purpose and effect seem to be quite clear. It is little 

 short of mental suicide for a layman to even consider 

 them, and we do not want to risk what little we have, 

 but possibly it is safe to put it in the form of a ques- 

 tion, or rather questions. 



Why should logs carry a lower rate than cordwood? 

 We are told : because cordwood is hauled but once, 

 while logs make lumber and lumber makes more freight, 

 and better paying freight. It sounds like the old pro- 

 verb at one time so popular in Republican communities. 

 ' * More rain, more corn ; more corn, more whiskey ; 

 more whiskey, more Democrats." If there is a definite 



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