The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-17

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and" 1t did not so appear at that
but afterwards Committee met
Mr.. Marcy, freight Agent of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company, and Mr..
Mills of the Central Vermont, and held
at Rutland. After this meet
ing an offer 10 reduce rates to few points
in New England was made by Mr.. Marcy,
but were SO slight and unimportant that no
attention was paid to this offer Of Mr..
Marcy.
The 20tl July tariff, as before appears |
was in force just one month and then re-
voked, as Mr. Hyde predicted it would be.
Subsequently, Mr.. Marcy says in three
weeks it was in part restored during the
pleasure of the company. so as to enable
those who contracted slate during the ope-
ration of the Goth of July tariff TO fulfill
their contracts without loss So much,
with the addition Of an offer hy Mr.. Marcy
to make a slight reduction to few eastern
points, is all that has come from this appl-
cation of the association to the Delaware
and Hudson canal company To reduce their
rates. There is no evidence that this COM
pany has ever reduced the rates on its own
roads one penny. What reduction there
has been has been effected on connecting
lines. The association has never com
planned of rates on connecting lines 1t
asks no reduction on those. The NeuH
saws THIS road delaware and Hudson
canal company could not accommodate
the producers without the cooperation of
connecting roads" and " it was through
Mr.. Marcys efforts that the Goth July tar
| if was brought about" Very likely it was
brought about by his efforts, bnt does tile
Herald expect to find any one so stupid as to
believe that this company could not reduce
its own rates from S25 to SIG a car from
the ouarrics to Schenectady without the
cooperation of connecting lines?' The
Delaware and Hudson canal company take
at the rate of 81 cents per ton per mile to
Schenectady, and from thence the slate
goes TO all points west at the rate Of one
cent per ton per mile and while the goth
July tariff was in force some of the west
era roads dropped below the one per cent
For hauling to Rutland the Delaware ant
HUDSON canal company charged $3.50 PEI
car, which Is over five cents per ton pc
mile, and from Rutland it is taken north
east or south, at 40 cents per ton pc
mile.
/ The truth is, and the HcrUM ought t.
| know it, that the slate interest through tn
: association has held out its hands implor
ingly from the first for reduction of rates
: and its attitude to this day has never bee
changed, and the Xerald's idea that tn
producers were satisfied on the 25th o
July, with the exception of Mr.. Hyde
9 who wanted to get into the legislature wit
t the matter, is SANDER not only upon MI
D Hyde, but upon the association. Nothin
: can be further from the truth. We shoul
all of us be ready and willing to accel
: reasonable rates, il we can be assured {
y their being permanent. Put them whel
Y they are on the Vermont Central, and a
c sure the producers that they will renal
}. there, and my word for it, Mr.. Hyde wi
f press his bill no further in the Vernon
C legislature but until Il reasonable rate
C had we say to Mr.. Hyde, do the best &c
Ii can. With our business, it is strugg
d for life. We cannot long pay such rat
# and live. We want no special rates fof j
l. dividuals. We ask that every slate pr
), Queer have the same rates.
e The Herald represents that Mr.. Hy'
?. has over-estimated the value OF the sla
n interests that he has estimated them
" $S,OO0,0 900, when good judges cstima
he them at only million and a half. NJ
s, Hyde took his estimate from statistics FL
le nished the association by the produce
a themselves. The estimate may be too hig
or 1t certainly is if the rates of transport
s. ton are to be kept up where they are no.
re The real estate on which crops out the sla
G. rock 60 plentifully will be worth its val
~ for pasture, moving, or pillow land, and
more, unless some way can be devised
n transport the manufactured article at k
rates than now. But the HercM ought
I'd know, for it published it, that the amou
I'd of slate produced in 1878 was milli
n and half. 1t ought to know, too, I'll
I'd this interest alone in 1878 paid the De
cd ware and Hudson canal company
il freightng to Schenectady and Rutla
IS over $50. 900 almost up to what the mi
1t, bic interest paid. 1t matters very lit
he what the interest is valued at. it would
in a very heavy business but for the high IA
he on the Delaware and Hudson canal co
on pany's roads.
ID. The Herald says that sit further
ne pears before the committee that tn
lat fourths of that interest are opposed to
ire passage of the BILL" This is false, but
an will not say that the HeraM knows it,
lte it evidently knows very little Of what
lily attempts to enlighten its readers on I
est subject. Three or four men were indu,
on in some way, best known to themselves
nd testify before that committee in the inter
clip of the railroad company. Two of then
ce, my certain knowledge have talked lou
IN, and longer, and in severer language of
ar high rates than any body else.
TN l have perhaps already written more Il
, Il THE GLOBE will have space for, and N
iey leave several points untouched that
oh' signed to notice. No one who is acqua
w. ed with the slate and marble interests
ley this county can doubt their importal
the Blot them out and you would sink {
vas half the value of the property Of Rutl
NC county. do not mean by this that
u.s. valuation of those interests wouli be {
'tly half, but annihllate them, and every i
ana of real estate in the county would drol
lch ,.olun Our fnrn, lnnia ,uonlh moi In ,rl