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per 100 pounds for class A to 16 cents for class B and class H. An 
important group of commodities carried over this route consists of 
fresh fruits and vegetables. Some of the freight rates applying to 
these products are of considerable importance to the fruit and truck 
industry of the Norfolk region. The following rates applied in 1912 
to shipments from Norfolk to Baltimore: Berries were charged from 
18 cents per crate of 24 quarts to 42 cents per 60-quart crate; fresh 
fruits, 7 cents per bushel box, 1 1 cents per half -barrel box or carrier, 
20 cents per standard vegetable barrel, and 25 cents per sugar barrel; 
cabbage, cucumbers, and spinach, 15 cents per flour barrel and 20 
cents per sugar barrel; lettuce and potatoes, 20 cents per flour barrel 
and 23 cents per sugar barrel; tomatoes, 11 cents per half -barrel car- 
rier; and watermelons, 2 J cents each. The charge on cotton in 
square bales was 40 cents per bale if compressed, and 50 cents if not 
compressed. Cotton in cylindrical bales was charged at the rate of 
10 cents per 100 pounds. 
FREIGHT TARIFF ZONES. 
An example of the application of what may be termed "zone rates" 
is afforded by the tariffs established by the Eailroad Commission of 
Alabama for the Alabama and Tombigbee Elvers. Freight tariff 
No. 3 of this series applies to shipments between Mobile and three 
principal cities up the river — Demopolis, Montgomery, and Selma. 
This tariff is based chiefly upon the Southern Classification. Cotton 
and cement are given special rates, but other articles are charged 
according to their respective " classification." The six numbered 
classes are charged from 30 cents per 100 pounds for articles in class 1 
to 10 cents per 100 pounds for those in class 6, and the lettered classes 
9 cents per 100 pounds for articles in class A to 19 cents per 100 
pounds for those in class H. Articles coming under class F are 
charged 20 cents per barrel. The rates just quoted apply to ship- 
ments between Mobile and any of the three cities mentioned. Freight 
tariff No. 2 applies to shipments between Mobile, Demopolis, and 
points located between those cities. This schedule of rates is chiefly 
a " commodity" tariff, each article being given a special rate. For 
landings in general on the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers and their 
tributaries tariff No. 1, also a " commodity" tariff, applies. 
Another instance of a zone system of freight rates is that afforded 
on the route between Evansville, Ind., and Bowling Green, Ky. ; 
including parts of the Ohio, Green, and Big Barren Eivers. There is a 
special tariff between Evansville and Bowling Green. Other landings 
are divided into four groups, according to their distance from Evans- 
ville, No. 1 being the nearest to that place. The freight rate from all 
landings on the Tennessee Eiver between Florence, Ala., and its 
mouth, to and from St. Louis, is the same for a given commodity. 
It costs as much to ship from St. Louis to any one landing in this ter- 
ritory as to another. 
