24 BULLETIN 191, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table I. — List of demurrage bureaus, their headquarters and jurisdiction, and variations 
from the uniform code on interstate traffic. . 
[Uniform code: Free time, 48 hours; demurrage rate, $1.J 
Demurrage bureau. 
Headquarters. 
Num- 
ber of 
roads. 
Territory embraced in States of— 
Addi- 
tional 
time. 
De- 
mur- 
rage 
rate. 
Birmingham . . 
Q-f- T.nnio 
18 
15 
13 
14 
12 
38 
17 
7 
11 
23 
8 
18 
14 
31 
20 
52 
7 
19 
18 
18 
Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and 
Mississippi. 
Illinois and Missouri 
Chicago 
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and 
Ohio. 
ming. 
Georgia and Tennessee 
_ 
Chattanooga. . . 
Peoria 
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, 
Missouri, and Wisconsin. 
Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, 
- . 1 ■ *> y unii-U£ . 
Intermountain 
Salt Lake City 
TYnln+Vi 
0) 
K ) 
( 2 ) 
T 
Missouri Valley 
Kansas City... 
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Illinois, Kansas^ Missouri, Nebraska, 
and Oklahoma. 
(f\ 
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North Carolina 
Raleigh 
North Carolina 
Minneapolis. . . 
San Francisco . 
AiiniiGsotti ^Nortti Dsikotst South 
Dakota, and Wisconsin. 
Arizona, California, and New Mex- 
ico. 
Idaho, Oregon, and Washington . . , 
( 5 ) 
( 6 ) 
Pacific Northwest 
Atlanta 
Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina 
Tennessee 
Tennessee 
Nashville 
Virginia and West Vir- 
ginia. 
Western 
Richmond 
Omaha 
Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Tennes- 
see, Virginia, and West Virginia. 
Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and 
Wyoming. 
Michigan and Wisconsin 
Wisconsin 
Milwaukee 
1 Allows 96 hours for unloading ore and concentrates. 
2 Charges $5 per day on certain high explosives. 
3 On flax and grain demurrage begins to accrue day following placing of cars. 
4 Allows 72 hours at Butte and East Helena for unloading shipments of coal, coke, concentrates, lagging, 
lime, lime rock, lumber, ore, and stulls. 
& Allows only 24 hours for unloading tank cars. 
6 Charges S3 per day on all commodities in Arizona and California and on tank cars in New Mexico. 
