The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1873-09-06
BENEFITS OF THE CENTRAL.

The following from the Sacramento
Union, of the ID inst, contains so much
of truth that we copy it in order to show
the actual state of affairs, affecting rates
of transportation, in this State.
A letter Just received by the UNION from a bu-
siness man Of Austin, in the State of Nevada,
enables us to give specifically SAME of the out
RACES in common practice by the railway COM
pany on the people of the Silver State. The
town of Austin, by the old wagon and stage
route, is about as miles from Sacramento. Our
correspondent states that seven years ago THAT
is before the railroad era,l the stage fare from
Austin to Sacramento was $40" 1t now costs
by railway and stage S45 %. The railway dis.
lance is about $50 miles, and about rs miles Of
staging. "Seven years ago" he says, ait cost
six cents per pound to freight powder from Sac
ramento to Austin by team" Now it costs six
and a half to seven cents per pound by railway
$50 miles and team rs miles and nearly the
same on " all bulky goods, oils, etc" He adds
what is but the truth, that ST ans could load
at the Sacramento levee and freight to the va
rious points IN Nevada and make money at these
rates" We add that merchants of this city
during the teaming era freighted from here to
Austin at six cents per pound. He says they
charge $50 per carload to ship horses from Sac
ralnento to Wadsworth, a distance of but lS9
miles, and S212 for a carload Of barley to feed
the horses The reason for this yillianOus dis
elimination is apparent !" they carry the horses
cheaper than the barley because the horses can
walk and the barley can't"
Here is another statement to which we call the
attention Of the senate Committee on Transpor-
tation, whereof Casserly is a member, and we
beg that he will not omit it in his report. The
Austin man says +" We ship a carload of can
dies from Cincinnati TO sell at Virginia City
They oblige us to pay full rates to sacramento
1867 per carload in currency. They then make
us pay them $3.50 in gold to take the candles
back from sacramento to Reno 1.-THE point where
Railway to the Reno and Virginia City road
where we wished them at first p
People in Nevada desiring to 60 to the East
ern States from Battle Mountain, Elko or other
points on the Central Pacific road, have to send
to San Francisco to procure their tickets, because
tho ticket from San Francisco to Omaha costs
less than a ticket from Elko to Omaha. Yet the
distance from Elko to Omaha or Chicago is COS
miles less than the distance from Omaha or Chi
cago. Well may this correspondent remark
" Such a state of things seems almost incredi-
ble." Is IL any wonier, in the face OF such facts
that the State of Nevada languishes and lags be-
hind Colorado and Utah, Notwithstanding her
immensely superior resources? She is in the
coil of the anaconda even tighter than Califor-
mia, where the people are threatening rebellion
means. Is II, then, any marvel that the much
abused and outraged Nevadans should begin to
talk Of revolutionf They are the victims of a
systemized robbery, as the writer of this letter
says, that Is 9 beneath the tricks of a common
road agent" AMI yet carried on by the warrant of
law-of laws bought and paid for by the monop-
oily, who have for years past owned and con-
trolled the Legislatures Of that State and this as
absolutely as they do their own cars and engines.