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Show 60 Birmingham, Alabama, plant years, the was illlBuch the same since position, of the U. S. Steel relatively Corporation low costs of production tmute. to offsri the added expense entailed to reach tidewater at Mobile, Alabama. The ,ever, rail, majority located at are of the Eastern and Midweste'rn steel varying cOUlbinati.on, rail-water, or reach Western markets. plants (excluding haul Tables in recent years have cut these distances not or produced for them in the West. Freight tion. within the structures are regio. servtul, to This rates case back to 1919' articles from. Utah an produced quantities enjoyed, with the, in the Western to meet the market demand they economic condi self-perpetuating. are to the- Such rate underlying predicated, such change in the West until recent years. applicable COmDlon points Portland ancl SeaiUe remained the based upon have which Ecept as orders of the ID.ters.tate Commerce Commission, by general dating Plant) change; however, relative is slow. moclified not tend to be considerations upon which a.. the Panama Canal to o·riginally dictated by ecollomic was a11- / rate structure's, subject long comparative advantage Sparrows Point in sufficient use a how- 6 show that rail rate changes any exception of certain steel mill products Stes, and must through and 5 deeplyJnto the inland, plants, to the to Los same. general Allgeles, This 80, 000 lb. carload minimum . line of iron and steel San Francisco, rat weight.2 -.as $12.00 During the a net ton, same ' 2M. Uh Freight Rates As The'y W. Prickett, t'Rert· Dealing Relate to the Geneva (utah) Iron aad Steel Plant Following Its of Publicity COllversion For Comme-rcial Operating Purposes. "; and Industrial Development, State of Utah, (June 11, 194 , p. 2. May Dem- |
