FREIGHT RATES AND MANUFACTURES EST COLORADO 59 



tured mattress, but hair in sacks is not likely to be injured very much 

 in transportation. The effect of these rates on the mattress industry 

 in Denver is shown by the fact that when the Brown Palace Hotel was 

 built in that city, the hotel company bought 20,000 pounds of curled 

 hair mattresses, and at that time the freight rate was so adjusted that 

 had the company bought the raw material and had it shipped in 

 and manufactured in Denver, the difference in the freight rate alone 

 was so great that it would have added $800 to the cost which the 

 company had to pay for the mattresses already manufactured in the 

 East and delivered. 1 



The same disadvantage appeared at that time when Denver was con- 

 sidered as a distributing point. The Missouri River cities were favored 

 by the rates. 2 



100 pounds of moss, New Orleans to Omaha $0 . 59 



15 pounds of ticking, Chicago to Omaha 07! 



o.66£ 



115 pounds of mattresses, Omaha to Trinidad 1 . 43 



Total $2 . 09 



100 pounds of moss, New Orleans to Denver $1 .59 



15 pounds of ticking, Chicago to Denver 26 



$1.85 



115 pounds of mattresses, Denver to Trinidad 82 



Total $2.67 



Difference in favor of Omaha $0 . 58 



A study of freight rates from Denver to the various cities which served 

 as the distributing centres of the country shows that these rates were 

 considerably reduced on January 1, 1895, and remained so reduced till 

 November 1, 1895. At the latter date they were raised somewhat though 

 not to the level of the old schedule. The changes are shown in the fol- 

 lowing table: 



1 Ibid., p. 45. 

 ■ Ibid. 



