TERRITORY TRIBUTARY TO HAMPTON ROADS PORTS LOCAL TERRITORY SERVED The map facing this page shows approximately the territory within which the port of Norfolk has a rate advantage over Baltimore on the north, and Wilmington, N. C., on the south. In defining this territory, use has been made of class rates, first class only, in effect on the date of this report. In establishing the boundary lines only the more important border-line points have been used, and where the border-line passes through a given point it indicates that the rates are the same to Norfolk as to Baltimore or Wilmington, N. C., as the case may be. No attempt has been made to extend the territory beyond the Virginia and North Carolina western boundary lines, nor to show every individual point having rates favorable to Norfolk, but, in a general way, the local territory favorable to Norfolk is shown. INTERIOR TERRITORY SERVED In addition to the rates via all-rail fast freight lines operating directly from eastern cities and interior eastern points to the west, ocean and rail rates via the Hampton Roads ports are in effect to a portion of the central west. These rates govern the movement of domestic traffic largely from New England, New York, and northern New Jersey, destined to the consuming points in the Middle West and beyond. The traffic is brought to Norfolk and Newport News by coastwise steamers and there transferred direct to cars, which are carried in dispatch trains to the interior. These services are operated by the Old Dominion Steamship Co. and the Merchants and Miners Transportation Co. in conjunction with the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Norfolk & Western railways. Regular berths are allotted to the steamers at the railway terminals where the freight is given expeditious handling into cars consigned regularly to interior points. Through these combination ocean and rail dispatch services, freight is carried from points along the North Atlantic to the interior at a considerable saving in transportation rates over the all-rail rates. WATER AND RAIL DISTANCES The geographical position of the Hampton Roads ports with relation to important interior points of production, concentration, and |