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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



Transcontinental Commodity Rates, 1896* 



California Terminals to 



Kansas City, St. Joseph 



and Omaha, 2,157 



Miles 



California Terminals to 



Pueblo, Colorado Springs 



and Denver, 1,545 



Miles 



Agricultural implements 



Brushes 



Blankets 



Chocolate 



Sugar 



Drugs and medicines 



Hides (green) 



Honey 



Ink • 



Lard and substitutes 



Machinery, class A 



Oilcloth (floor) and linoleum 



Paint (earth and mineral) 



Rice 



Soap 



Skins, Russian sable, silver fox, sea otter and 



blue fox 



Martin, fisher, cross fox and white fox 



Bear, beaver, otter, mink, lynx and red fox , 

 Deer, raccoon, muskrat, squirrel, reindeer etc , 



Pi. 40 

 2.20 

 2.50 

 2.20 



•75 

 3.00 

 1.30 

 1 .10 

 3.00 

 1.30 

 1 .40 

 1.90 

 1 .00 

 1 .00 



.82 



6.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 3.00 



* KlNDEL, OP. Ctt., p. 24. 



Colorado was under similar disadvantages when it came to shipping 

 goods out of the state. It did not seem to be the scheme of the man who 

 made the rates to allow Denver to be a distributing point. The follow- 

 ing tables giving the freight rates from Colorado cities to certain points, 

 and also the rates from other cities to these same points, show that it 

 generally cost more to ship from Colorado than from other cities even 

 though in the latter case the haul was often much longer. 

 First Class Rates, 1895* 



New York to San Francisco. . . 



Chicago to San Francisco 



New Orleans to San Francisco. 



Omaha to San Francisco 



Denver to San Francisco 



Omaha to Salt Lake. 

 Denver to Salt Lake. 



Chicago to El Paso . . 

 Denver to El Paso . . . 



B>i .00 

 1 .00 

 1 .00 

 1 .00 

 3.00 



1.65 

 1.65 



1 .62 



* KlNDEL, op. dt., p. 53. 



