178 BULLETIN 711. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
At the time the above rate- were in effect, the Northern Pacific Kail- 
road Co. quoted distance rates as follows, the special rates mentioned 
above to be applied when less than the distance rates. These distance 
rates deal with all main and branch line stations in the State of 
Washington west of and including Ellensburg. Wash., except the 
haul between Granite Falls and Kobe. Wash., on the Monte Cristo 
Branch. 
Table 29. — Distance, freight tariffs. 
[Minimum, 7.000 feet per car.] 
Rate in dollars 
Distance. - per 1,000 feet. 
10 miles or less SI. 00 
Over 10 miles and not over 15 miles 1. 25 
Over 15 miles and not over 20 miles 1. 35 
Over 20 miles and not over 25 miles 1. 40 
Over 25 miles and not over 30 miles 1. 45 
Over 30 miles and not over 35 miles 1. 50 
Over 35 miles and not over 40 miles 1. 55 
Over 40 miles and not over 45 miles 1. »J" 
Over 45 miles and not over 50 miles • 1. 65 
Over 50 miles and not over 55 miles 1. 70 
Over 55 miles and not over 60 miles 1. 75 
Over 60 miles and not over 65 miles 1. 80 
Over 65 miles and not over 70 miles 1. 85 
Over 70 miles and not over 75 miles 1. 90 
Over 75 miles and not over 80 miles 1. 95 
Over SO miles and not over 85 miles 2. 00 
Over 85 miles and not over 90 miles 2. \)r> 
Over 90 miles and not over 95 miles 1_ 2. in 
Over 95 miles and not over 100 miles 2. ID 
Over 100 miles and not over 110 miles 2. 15 
Over 110 miles and not over 120 miles 2. 20 
Over 120 miles and not over 130 miles ._ 2. 25 
Over 130 miles and not over 140 miles 2. 30 
Over 140 miles and not over 150 miles 2. 35 
It should be noted in connection with the special rate^ that the 
rates depend on the amount shipped: al>o that the rates are applied 
in connection with a carload minimum. In a specific case it is easy 
to measure the effect of the former, while the latter is difficult to 
get at. If the logs are large and sound, the latter will have the effect 
of increasing the quoted rate but little, if any. Where the logs are 
small and extreme care is not used in loading, the actual rate per 
thousand feet may be 10 or 15 per cent higher than the quoted rate. 
One company, operating in small second-growth timber and paying 
;i quoted rate of SI per thousand feet, found at the end of a year that 
they had actually paid $1.15 per thousand feet, the increase being 
due to the fact that a lar°:e number of the cars did not contain the 
