The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-03-08
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lev of the T.. V. VI. 20. 10 transport Oo"'
10 Rock Island for one fourth the price at
which it was sold, and that he was deter
mined that the public, and not the coal
producers alone, should have the benent
Of that reduction.
There was considerable more discussion
about the lots and the manner OF doiis
business, when the Mayor asked Robinson
If Wilson would like the lot granted 10
him, if the river track was taken up
Robinson replied that he could not
say =,
The Mayor then asked him what he dld
want, and he replied that he wanted tne
Council to take up the river track and give
Wilson permission to put down another
one to get to the lot granted him
The Mayor said that no such track
could be put down without running across
the lot granted to the G. V. NJ Co. hob
inson admitted that to be true, and then
wanted the Council to take away from MI
Gable the upper lot, and then let Wilson
run track across it,-but no member OF
the Council seemed to entertain that idea.
/ Alderman Stengel said he would oppose
the putting down of any more tracks on
the levee by any one, that the levee and
/ landing was too circumscribed now Tor our
river business, and he was opposed to
abandoning the public laniing to coal
dealers or any one else.
/ After some further discussion, Robinson
left the Council room, Mr.. Cable having
previously left.
The Mayor then said thr matter had
better be disposed of in some way, where
upon Alderman Stengel moved that the
proposition, printed above Of the e. ',
VI Co. be accepted by the Council The
motion was seconded by Alderman Copp,
aud unanimously adopted
From the above it will be seen that our
people now have prospect Of cheaper
coal if Wilson and Robinson will accept
cheap transportion and that the only rea-
son we cannot now have cheaper coal is
that they don't do so, but prefer paying a
higher rate
The C. V. VI. Co has never been known
to go back on its pledges, aHl the public
knows that it has the ability to perform all
it promises The clamor has been, here
tofore, that the C. V NJ c. charged too
much for transportation, bur now it seems
10 be that it charges too little 1t is a
pity that these fault-fniing gentle
men can't be pleased with any
proposition They are afered trans
portation on their own terms and il
We don't have cheap Goa ii looks as
though the fault would be theirs. For ten
years our people have had the benefit OF
the pledge of the c. V. NJ Co. that We
should not be charged for coal in Rock
Island more than three times the price d
mining and now we have the additional
pledge Of that company thar we shall MOI
be charged more than four times the price
of transportation to Rock Island, so that i
We get cheap mining or cheap transporta
ton we are sure of cheap c'al,
This offer of the c. V. NJ Co. has beer
the subject of some considerable discussion
about town for some time, and there is NJ
doubt about its being mad in good faith
In fact it is susceptible ofproof that Rob
inson was offered the written guarantee o
the c. '. NJ Co. to carry il out in goo,
faith and give him every needed facility il
t. putting his coal upon the market, but j
ID must be understood that K did not appl!
IS TO tritiing quantity j; meant bushes
lie "a supply, say, By Robinson and Wilson
Id of somewhere near the quantity produced
ID by the c. V NJ. Co. There was still
Il another point in toe proposition
be viz that if any other partie
nd had coal transported to Rock Is
he land over the Peoria or any other road a
he a less price than Wilson or Robinso
Il might be paying, then, il that case, the
81 should have a corresponding amour
no transported by the G. V. NJ Co to Rec
d. Of coal we're not reduced The suggestia
as that the c. Y. NJ Co. would charge f.
Of coal in Rock Island only four times I'll
at price of transportation was not intended I
IN apply to trifing quantities. as to whic
ne quantities these parties should be place
he in as good position as any others wi
" might come to this market
At. Shall we have cheap coal Messrs vi
no son 4 Robinson?