58 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



Cash Registers 



Chicago or Kansas City to San Francisco $2 . 40 



Chicago to Denver 4 . 10 



Denver to San Francisco 6 . 00 



Denver to Grand Junction 3-5° 



Denver to Salt Lake 3.30 



Some time previous to August, 1896, Messrs. Grove & Pry or, jobbers 

 of hats and gloves in Denver, shipped 600 pounds of gloves from San 

 Francisco. On receipt of them, they discovered that some mistake 

 had been made in filling their order and immediately returned the gloves. 

 They were much surprised to find the rate on gloves was, San Francisco 

 to Denver, 600 pounds at $2.00 a cwt, $12.00; return, Denver to San 

 Francisco, 600 pounds at $3.00 a cwt., $18. oo. 1 



In a number of instances, there was in 1896 a discrimination against 

 manufactures in Colorado by a higher freight rate on raw material than 

 on the manufactured goods. This is quite apparent from the rate on 

 material used in the manufacture of mattresses. 



In 1883, the railroads first took notice of the manufacture of excelsior 

 in Colorado. At that time the rate from the Missiour River to Denver 

 was $1.40 a cwt. After the manufacture of excelsior was well begun, 

 the freight rate was reduced to fifty cents a cwt., the same as the rate on 

 cord wood. 2 The unfavorable freight rate which began in 1883 was still 

 in force in 1895. Manufactured mattresses were charged more than 

 the raw material as appears from the following table: 



100 pounds of curled hair in sacks, Chicago to Denver. 

 15 pounds of ticking, Chicago to Denver 



1 15 pounds of mattresses in a car of furniture, Chicago to Denver 1 

 Raw material in excess of manufactured goods $3 



25 



09 



Mattresses are worth at least 10 per cent, more than the raw material 

 on account of the added labor. A grease spot will injure a manufac- 



1 KlNDEL, op. Cit., p. 37. 



' Ibid., p. 54. 



