The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-09-29

To Petersburg. ............ d ~
To Norfolk. .................''..''.'' . -
10 New Ork..... = -
Thus goods are taken from Memphis to
New York at less cost than from Mem
phis to Lynchburg, and at dollar and
eight cents less than to Norfolk. General
MALONE represents 203 miles of railroad
and the sea line to New York. He re-
ceives of the charge to New York on the
combined line eighty-six cents, while
should the freight stop at Norfolk he gets
eighty-two.
On freight coming east from the Grand
Junction we have
To Richmond. ...............'......@S 90
To Norfolk. .........-.... .....'.'''..''' ~
To New York. ...............'.... ..'''''.' -
None of this freight, of course, would
stop in Virginia in the face of a premium
to 90 to New York. ...h
"Take Knoxville. The charge thence to
Norfolk IL 81, and TO New YORK Is *z'os-a
difference merely nominal. -
"Again: the charge from Richmond to Mem
phis 10 tS. So from New YORK tits " ~. from
Richmond 70 Corinth 1t IL $3.li; from New
York 1t Ii Is .06."
We add to these charges westward, ga
thered from q paper in the office of the
Board Of Public Works, that the rates
of through freight from Ne,o Fork on the
Southside railroad is eighteen cents per 100
pounds, while the Virginia and Tennessee
charges on the same freight thirty cents per
100 pounds. Yet for the freight from
Richmond, on the Virginia and Tennessee
road, the charge is seventy cents per 100
pounds. The same inequality Is main
tanned on the Southside railroad upon
local freight. On freight from Rich
mond the Danville road charges st1-
teen cents per 100 pounds to- Burks-
Vile. and the Southside, west Of Bufks'
Vile, charges on the same freight trenty-t,oo
cents-makipg airty-eight cents per one hun
Died mounds from Richmond to Lynchburg,
-. distance Of 1873 miles, while New York
nays from Petersburg to Lynchburg-about
the same distsnce-only eighteen cents per
one AsHdyed pounds t e."
These rates relate to articles of the third
class: but like determinations character
ize,all others.
The Enquirer alleges that there is CON-
petition carried on between the Southside
road and the Orange and Alexandria road
on freight from Lynchburg to Baltimore.
The agents Of the latter line complain that
General MALONE underbids them they
charge ffty-fye cents on second class
freight, and he charges ninety-eight. 1t
may be inferred from the competition that
the rates are varied. But Virginia inter-
ests suffer from the competition. Com
pared with the nominal rate Of fifty
hve cents per 100 pounds On the
freight from Lynchburg to Baltimore, we
hsye that Of eighty cents from Lynchburg
70 Norfolk Is that building up Norfolk
Are these rates likely to build up any place
In Virginia
It's evident from the statements al hand
that the through rates are not remnnsrs-
tive, and that the loss In made up on ,oca,
freights--i. e., on the people Of Vi,oin,o
No copies Of these local freights are fur.
nished 10 the Board Of Public Works
which ought to have them in book re.
corded for public inspection. Indeed, II
this Board has no power to check the
abuses referred to, great omission has
been made In its organization.
These statistics show but q partial view
Of The Ahtal effects Of the railroad regula.