Excerpt from Before the Interstate Commerce Commission, Docket No. 13494, Investigation of Class Rates To, From and Within Southern Territory: Brief for North Carolina Corporation Commission It should always be borne in mind, however, that the trunk line adjustments applied by the Norfolk and Western and the Chesapeake and Ohio and their connections from Cincinnati and Louisville and the whole of Central Freight Association territory to Virginia cities absolutely controls the adjustment of through rates to all of the destinations here involved, whether in Virginia or in North Carolina, with the exception of that portion of the State of North Carolina lying west of Statesville and Gastonia. Even beyond the points last men tioned the Virginia cities rates make the rates on some of the classes as far west as Asheville. (p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.