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Class C. Parsnips, pitwood (for mining purposes), potatoes 

 (in bulk or in sacks), salt (packed), soda, straw (hydraulic 

 or steam-packed), waste paper (for paper-making). 



Class i. Cardboard, cotton (unmanufactured), onions, 

 printing paper, finished wrought iron in shafts (for driving 

 mill wheels), soap, sugar (in bags, cases or sacks), tallow, 

 vinegar (in casks). 



Class 2. Bacons and hams (cured and packed), celery, 

 coffee, copper, earthenware (in casks or crates), crucibles 

 (plumbago or clay), oranges, ropes, raw wool or yarn. 



Class 3. Baths, calicoes, carpeting, china (in hampers), 

 combs, cotton and linen goods (in bales, boxes, etc.), cutlery, 

 groceries, hardware, lead pencils, tea, wheelbarrows. 



Class 4. Light drapery (various), footballs, garden arches, 

 grates, ovens or stoves, haberdashery, hats (soft felt), lamps, 

 umbrellas. 



Class 5. Amber, engravings, feathers, cut flowers, hothouse 

 fruit, furs, dead horses, lace, looking-glasses and mirrors, 

 musical instruments, picture frames, silk. 



These examples indicate the gradual rise in value in the 

 articles included in the several classes, though, assuming that 

 the traffic will bear the rate, other considerations as well as 

 value will apply, among these being liability to damage during 

 transit, weight in proportion to bulk, and nature of packing 

 or cost of handling. 



It is further to be remembered that although a good deal of 

 raw material is carried in the lowest classes at rates which 

 might work out at less than " cost " price, when every item 

 in respect to " cost of service " and interest on capital ex- 

 penditure had been allowed for, the commodities in question 

 may reappear in various successive forms as part-manufactured 

 or, eventually, as manufactured, articles, paying a successively 

 higher rate, in accordance with their progressively greater 

 value, on the occasion of each further transportation. Even 

 when these results do not follow, the commodities carried at 

 these low rates may help to develop the resources, or to expand 

 the population, of a particular district, and thus serve to 

 create traffic in other directions. 



While, also, the rates for the low-value articles may not 

 cover every item in the so-called cost of service, they do 

 contribute to the revenue an amount which might otherwise 



