FREIGHT RATES AND MANUFACTURES IN COLORADO 



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Oil- 

 Chicago to San Francisco 



Colorado common points to San Francisco 



Pickles — 



Chicago to San Francisco 



Denver to San Francisco 



Soap — 



Chicago to San Francisco. 



Chicago to Denver 



Denver to San Francisco. 



•78* 

 .96 



.90 

 .60 



•75 

 •77 

 .82 



* KlNDEL, op. Cit., p. 36. 



The following table of rates shows the impracticability of carrying 

 on the jobbing business in Denver under the discriminations prevailing 

 in 1896. Shale is a town on the Rio Grande Railway 28 miles west of 

 Grand Junction. 



Chicago to Omaha $0 . 80 



Omaha to Shale 1 . 65 



$2 



Chicago to Denver $2 



Denver to Grand Junction 1 



Grand Junction to Shale 



Denver jobber's rate in excess of Omaha's $1 



By 1895 the jobbing business in Colorado had not reached any appre- 

 ciable development, most of the jobbers supplying the state having found 

 it more profitable to locate at the Missouri River. 1 



The rate on cash registers illustrates likewise the same disadvantages 

 of the jobber at that time. 2 



1 Ibid., p. 14. 

 ' Ibid., p. 37. 



