Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1871-02-04
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editorial Of late number Of The Baltimore
Gazette. and are glad TO see that there
IS. a, least. one paper in Bsl.imore,whIc
has the independence to offer its columns
TO the we'll founded complaints Of our,
people along the line Of The d. q "
Railroad, in reference 10 the unjust dis
ordinations made against them in lis
charges for transportation -
We fullErecognze The value OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Road 10 the city oil
Baltimore, Tue importance and magnitude
OF the works il has on hand. and HE nu'
merons difficulties with which II has at
times TO coalsnd. 1t is no! our object 10
hamper il, but rather 10 aid II, and, as
rule. We decline 10 open our columns 10
attacks which. though often correct. are
too often personal. There are times,
however, when it lie bu, fair that The pub
lie should hear both sides OF question,
and as our columns have been made use
Of BY one party, /, is but right 10 throw
Them open, al ess, for once, 10 lis acver'
saries. /, is This feeling which induces
US to publish The following letter, signed
by most respectable and responsible gen.
lleGen. 1t shows that the BALTIMORE and
Ohio Road, like all other corporations, is
mos, virluous when competition is great.
est. This letter, as will be seen. is seve.
raj days old, but has been crowded out,
with this article, for TWO dave, by the un-
usual press Of mater. We can only say
TO our Hedgesvile subscribers, "the moIe
competition. The better for you and for
us." The letter is az follows:
HeDoEsvILLE. January 81, 1871.
lNessrs. Editors-The people Of Berk-
eley county generally, and the GILL;
zprs of our own town especially, have
long suffered from the high rates charged
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In
late address Of President GsUeus he
states that freight is carried from Baln-
more TO Chicago al the low rate OF fifty.
five cents per one hundred pounds, whilst
we are charged. from Baltimore TO Mar.
linsbOrg, forty ceris per one hundred
pounds; 10 North Mountain Station, forty
TWO cents. and to Cherry Run. forty FIVE
cents. which. being added to The CON.
mission charged a, way stations, (ten
cents per hundred pounds,) would make
the total cost fifty.,~o cents 10 North
Mountain Slotion, being one hundred and
seven miles from Baltimore. whilst. for
three cents additional, the same quantity
Of freight is carried from Bait more to
Chicago, a distance Of eight hundred and
twen,y.six miles. We have men living
in our community that have hauled goods
10 This point from Baltimore, before the
railroad was in operation, a, foriy-fve
GEMS per hundred pounds, proving that
thirty years ago, we received goods from
Bdlumore, by wagons. al lower rates than
we can now obtain them by railroad. The
farmers Of our COUNTY have also suffered
under the oppressive lax Of twenty seven
cents per bushel for every bushrl of
wheat shipped from this point to your
city, whilst the farmers Of an adjoining
county, VIZ; Washington county, Mary
land, send their wheat TO The same mar.
Ike, a, the rost Of Ten cents per bushel,
over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. the
distance being nearly the same. In the
course Of few months the Cumberland
Valley Railroad. from Hagerslown to
Msrlinsburg. will be completed /; then
will the people more generally be enIgh'.
ened in regard TO the oppressive tax un-
der which we have abored, and, whilst
the interests Of Bal,lmOresns have long
been associated with our own. should an.
other road offer superior inducements &c
other cities, we may be necessitaded TO
look TO "our interests elsewhere"
CITIZENS OF HEDGEsvILLE.