SPECIAL RATE PROBLEMS: THE SOUTHERN BASING POINT
SYSTEM; TRANSCONTINENTAL RATES; PORT
DIFFERENTIALS, ETC.
Contrast between the basing point and trunk line
systems, 380.--Natural causes in southern
territory, 381.--Economic dependence, 381.--Wide-spread
water competition, 382.--High level of rates, 382.--The
basing point system described, 383.--Its economic
defences, 384.--Early trade centres, 384.--Water
competition once more, 385.--Three types of
basing point, 387.--Purely artificial ones
exemplified, 388.--Different practice among
railroads, 390.--Attempts at reform, 391.--Western
_v._ eastern cities, 391.--Effect of recent industrial
revival, 392.--The Texas group system, 393.--An outcome
of commercial rivalry, 394.--Local competition of trade
centres, 395.--Possibly artificial and unstable, 395.--The
transcontinental rate system, 395.--High level of
charges, 396.--Water competition, 396.--Carload
ratings and graded charges, 398.--Competition
of jobbing centres, 398.--Canadian
differentials, 400.--"Milling-in-transit" and similar
practices, 401.--"Floating Cotton," 402.--"Substitution of
tonnage," 403.--Seaboard differentials, 403.--Historically
considered, 403.--The latest decision, 403.--Import and
export rates, 404-409.