Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-04-06
Railroad Freights.

: Complaints are made now and then that the
freights on the Raleigh and CASTOR Road are too
high, and that proper disposition does not exist to
reduce them to rates corresponding with those Of
the Petersburg and Seaboard and Roanoke Roads.
The Raleigh and CASTOR Road is 81 miles long,
the Seaboard and Roanoke so, and the Petersburg
CO. Now we undertake to say, and it will be shown
if necessary, that general thing the fieghts on
the Raleigh and Castor Road are loaoer than on the
two other Roads named, and that Notwithstanding
the Raleigh and CASTOR Road has to transport artic
les seventeen miles further than one and thirty
miles further than the other Every effort has been
made by Maj. Wider the President of the Raleigh
ard Castor Road, since he has been in office, to
equalize reights between his Road and the other
two; but what benefit will it be to farmers and bu
siness men, if when he makes reduction upon ar
ticles, corresponding advance is at once made by
the other Roads? 1t is plain that no benefit would
result, while our own Road in which the State is
deeply interested, would be injured in its income
Major Wilder is now in Petersburg, or was on
Thursday last comforting with the Directors of
the Petersburg Company, with the view of equal
zing feights and of securing just and fair system
of operations between the two Companies and
in addition to this, proposition made by the Rrcs
dent of the Raleigh and Castor Road to the Sea-
board Company, is now pending, the object of which
is to divide between the two Companies on affair
basis the amounts by which it is desirable to reduce
the existing charges produce and various articles
of merchandise. What the result of these confer
enccs with the two Companies referred to will be,
we cannot tell; but thing is certain and that is,
the President of the Raleigh and CASTOR Road will
have done his duty on the subject and it will be
reights to hold him responsible and ccnsure him on
account of high freights.
1t is a mistake to suppose that Railroad Compa-
nies carry articles short distances at the same
rates per mile that they carry them long distan
ces No Railroad any where can do this The
trouble and expense of handling of loading and un
loading is the same whether the articles are to be
is and always has been, that the charge dminishes
as the distance increases.
The idea that President Wilder would discrimi-
mate in favor of one point his Road against anoth-
er point, or that he would seek to benefit Raleigh
to the detriment or injury of any other place. is alike
unfoundel and absurd. We feel sure that he has
at heart the interests Of the entire Eoad and of the
entire region of country through which it passes
and all his friends ask for him is fair trial in his
responsible and laborious Office and the just judg-
ment Of the public upon his acts. For our part, we
consider him peculiarly we'll qualified for the place
which he fills; and such is our confidence in his
business habits Judgment and energy of character,
that we do not expect to change our opinion of him.
At any rate, we are determined to give him fair
trial as President Of the Road; and this in common
justice he is entitled to, well from those who com.
plain as from those who do not