APPENDIX Part 1: Cost of handling 38 carloads of blackstrap molasses from New Orleans, La., to Peoria, Ill., via Illinois Central Railroad Co., 38 cars handled separately (not blocked) Expense per 100 pounds. cents.. South-bound, empty movement (cars handled separately, not blocked): Expense per 100 pounds of 38 loaded cars north-bound, handled as a solid block and empties returned at carriers' convenience (see part 3), less expense per 100 pounds of 38 loaded cars north-bound handled as solid block (see part 2).. Total expense per 100 pounds, round trip.. -- cents -- ! Computed on the basis that there would be 14 cars switched at Jackson, Miss., (exh. 15) which at 1.73 minutes per car (New Orleans yard average), applied to the average train (61 cars), would produce 0.40 minute per car. Restated yard-engine minutes applied to engine-hour expense restated as to accounts 202-221 and 273. Not affected by restatement accounts 202-221, 273, and 400. : Computed on expense per carload restated as to account 273. 4 Computed on percentage restated as to accounts 532, 504, 537, 507, 540, 508, 541, and 142. Computed on all other restated expenses. 6 Weight of shipment, 3,600,000 pounds. Part 2: Cost of handling 38 carloads of blackstrap molasses from New Orleans, La., to Peoria, Ill., via Illinois Central Railroad Co., 38 cars handled as a solid block Expense per 100 pounds 6. South-bound, empty movement (cars handled separately, not blocked): Expense per 100 pounds (see part 1) - Total expense per 100 pounds, round trip- .cents.. 1 Computed on the basis that interchange and transfer switching at New Orleans would require 30 minutes each, instead of 14.1 minutes and 24.4 minutes, respectively (the latter two figures were based on an average of 9.1 and 16.9 cars per service, respectively, and it is estimated that 30 minutes is more nearly the time required to handle 38 cars). Thirty-three cars would be switched into the 38-car block at Stuyvesant dockyard for assembling practical train which at 1.73 minutes per car divided by 71 cars (restated practical train) would produce 0.80 minute per car, and caboose-switching expense per car computed on basis of the handling of a 71-car instead of an 83-car train. At Jackson, Miss., estimated 14 cars switched (exh. 15) at 1.73 minutes per car divided by 71 cars would produce 0.34 minute per car. At Memphis hump, switching reduced to 15 minutes for handling 38 cars instead of 31 minutes as shown. Cabooseswitching expense per car computed for the handling of a 71-car instead of an 83-car train. At Fulton, Ky., estimated 11 cars switched (exh. 15) at 1.73 minutes per car divided by 71 cars would produce 0.27 minute At Mattoon, Ill., 33 cars switched from train at 1.73 minutes per car divided by 71 cars would product 0.80 minute per car. Restated engine-minutes applied to engine-hour unit expense restated for accounts 202-221 and 273. per car. Computed on the basis that traffic would be handled in a 71-car train instead of an 83-car train, and unit_expense per gross ton-mile restated for accounts 202-221, 273, and 400. : Computed on unit expense restated for account 273. • Computed on percentage restated for accounts 532, 504, 537, 507, 540, 508, 541, and 142. Computed on the basis that all others are restated expenses. 6 Weight of shipment, 3,600,000 pounds. Part 3: Cost of handling 38 carloads of blackstrap molasses from New Orleans, La., to Peoria, Ill., via Illinois Central Railroad Co., 38 cars handled northbound as a solid block but returned empty separately, not blocked 1 Restated on same bases as described for the loaded movement (part 2 hereof) and on the bases in the following notes for the return movement of empty cars. New Orleans expense for taking caboose off train computed on same basis as for loaded movement. Jackson, Miss., expense for switching 14 cars computed on same basis as for loaded movement. Fulton, Ky., expense for switching 11 cars computed on same basis as for loaded movement. Mattoon, Ill., expense for switching 33 cars into train computed on same basis as for loaded movement. Computed on same basis as for loaded movement. Computed for 38 cars at unit expenses restated for account 273. Computed on same basis as used for loaded movement. • Weight of shipment 3,600,000 pounds. 235 I. C. C. No. 27879 1 RAILROAD COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ET AL. v. ABERDEEN & ROCKFISH RAILROAD COMPANY ET AL. Submitted March 31, 1939. Decided December 4, 1939 1. Upon rehearing, prior finding in the original report, 215 I. C. C. 379, that rates on lettuce, in carloads, from the Phoenix or Salt River Valley district in Arizona would be unduly prejudicial for the future, modified. Nonprejudicial rates from the Phoenix and Yuma districts in Arizona and the Imperial Valley district in California prescribed. Other findings in that report affirmed. 2. Rates on potatoes, asparagus, broccoli, peas, and cabbage from the Phoenix district in Arizona found not unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or unduly prejudicial. 3. Rates on lettuce, melons other than watermelons, carrots, and cauliflower, in carloads, from the Phoenix and Yuma districts in Arizona and the Imperial Valley district in California, found not unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory but unduly prejudicial for the future. Nonprejudicial rates prescribed. 4. Damage not proven. Reparation denied. Frank B. Austin, Hal F. Wiggins, Ira H. Rowell, Scott Elder, and Warren K. Brown for Railroad Commission of California and other complainants in No. 27879. Carl R. Schulz, H. R. Brashear, Walter A. Rohde, T. G. Differding, and W. G. Stone for interveners supporting complainants in No. 27879. R. C. Fulbright, John N. Furlong, and Hollis B. Gray for certain Arizona interests. Wilson T. Wright, W. M. Cox, Amos A. Betts, and L. G. Reif for Arizona Corporation Commission. Harry Holden, J. W. Cornell, and M. Reese Hattabaugh for Public Utilities Commission of the State of Idaho. E. R. Tanner, W. Le Roy Hamilton, and Harry E. North for certain interveners of Yuma County, Ariz. 1 This report embraces also No. 26650, American Fruit Growers, Incorporated, et al. v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railway Company (H. B. Stewart, Trustee) et al.; No. 27752, Fred G. Hilvert Distributing Company et al. v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railway Company (H. B. Stewart and George E. Hagenbuch, Trustees) et al.; and No. 27926, Miller-Johns Company et al. v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railway Company, Debtor (H. B. Stewart and George E. Hagenbuch, Trustees), et al. Gerald E. Duffy, E. C. Pierre, A. M. Reinhardt, J. E. Lyons, L. N. Bradshaw, Carleton W. Meyer, John J. Fitzpatrick, and M. Carter Hall for defendants. BY THE COMMISSION: REPORT OF THE COMMISSION Exceptions to the proposed report were filed by complainants in Nos. 26650, 27752, and 27926, and by interveners of Yuma County, Ariz. Defendants and complainants in No. 27879 replied, and argument has been heard. In No. 27879 the Railroad Commission of the State of California and 91 shippers and growers of lettuce, hereinafter referred to collectively as the California commission, allege that the rates on lettuce from California to destinations in southern, southwestern, western trunk-line, and official territories, in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, and in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, Canada, are unjustly discriminatory and unduly prejudicial and unduly preferential of the State of Arizona. In No. 26650 division 2 found that rates on lettuce from origins in the Salt River Valley of Arizona, hereinafter referred to as the Phoenix district, to destinations described above, were not unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory or unduly prejudicial in the past, but that for the future they would be unduly prejudicial to the extent they exceeded 90 percent of the rates which may be concurrently maintained from points in the Imperial Valley, Calif., and in central California to the same destinations. That proceeding was reopened and assigned for rehearing with No. 27879. By stipulation the prior record was made a part of the record in No. 27879. In No. 27752 Fred G. Hilvert Distributing Company and many others allege that the rates on cantaloups and melons, except watermelons, and the minimum of 24,000 pounds applicable in connection with some of the alternative rates from the Phoenix district to destinations described in No. 27879 are unreasonable and unduly preferential of California, New Mexico, and Texas. In No. 27926 the Miller-Jones Company and many others allege that the rates on fresh and green fruits and vegetables, including asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, peas, and potatoes, from the Phoenix district to the destinations above described, are unreasonable and unduly preferential of California producing districts. The States enumerated in this and the other complaints considered herein in which the destinations are located are Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hamp shire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Prior to September 5, 1936, the same rates applied from California and Arizona origins to destinations covered by the several complaints on melons, fresh fruits, lettuce and other vegetables, except that two bases of rates applied alternatively from Arizona origins on melons and some of the vegetables. On that date defendants in compliance with the order in No. 26650 established rates on lettuce from the Phoenix district 90 percent of the rates which were applicable from other points west thereof in Arizona and California. The California commission seeks in No. 27879 to have the finding of undue prejudice in No. 26650 reversed and the parity of rates which existed prior to September 5, 1936, restored. Complainants in No. 27752 seek rates on melons, except watermelons, and complainants in No. 27926 seek rates on vegetables from the Phoenix district lower than rates which may be maintained from the Yuma district and the California districts. The California commission intervened, opposing lower rates on melons or vegetables from the Phoenix district than from points in California. The Yuma County Chamber of Commerce, McDaniel and Sons, Inc., L. M. McLaren Produce Company, Inc., and W. B. Allen intervened in No. 27752, alleging that the rates on melons, except watermelons, from Yuma County, Ariz., hereinafter referred to as the Yuma district, to destinations named in the complaint were unjust, unreasonable, and unduly prejudicial and unduly preferential of the producing districts in California, and that the maintenance of lower rates from the Phoenix district than from the Yuma district would be unduly preferential of the Phoenix district. Rates for the future and reparation were sought. The petition of intervention was filed more than 6 months prior to the hearing. It was granted by us, and a copy of it was served on defendants. The California Farm Bureau Federation, the chambers of commerce of Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno County, and Los Angeles, Fresno Traffic Association, Public Utilities Commission of the State of Idaho, and American Fruit Growers, Inc., also intervened. Rates will be stated in amounts per 100 pounds. They do not include the general increases authorized March 28, 1938. LETTUCE The several districts producing lettuce may readily be divided, owing to different climatic conditions, into two groups, the winter vegetable group, embracing the Phoenix, Yuma, and Imperial Valley districts, and the spring, summer, and fall vegetable group, embracing the remainder of California. The Phoenix district extends about 9 miles northwest, 30 miles west, and 31 miles east of Phoenix. The Yuma district extends from Araby |