Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-06
Newton Booth, and hence that pledge
must be received with qualifications.

must be received with qualifications.
Well. a bill was introduced into the
Assembly intended to reduce and equal
ize fares and freights on the railroads OF
the State. The Unioa declared the bill
good in the main but thought it was too
lenient toward the Railroad. The Fec
ord said it was an infamous bill, that
under it the branch roads running
through sparsely settled regions OF the
State must suspend the running OF tralns'
denied that present rates were unreason-
able and declared that there was no such
thing as unjust discrimination for or
against towns or individuals In the
CHARGES of the railroads and challenged
any proof to the contrary.
Stanford published a letter to the same
effect. Strange as it may seem, not one
particle of proof was offered IN response
to this challenge Edwards. the author
Of tho bill in tine Legislature. could
offer 10 better showing than to state the
freight charges on merchandise iIoin
San Francisco 10 Woodland III contrast 10
the CHARGES on wheat-which Is always
carried lower than NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Knights Landing TO San Francisco. The
Union could publish 10 charge OF dlscil-
,nina;ion except that 1.-THE t'''""-
was excluded from the cars. The
Record replied that the statement
was flat falsehood. swift
declared it was an outrage that men IN
the mountains were obliged to pay more
freight and fare per mile than laon IN
the valley, a statement with SO little rea-
son that one is justified in dismissing
Mr. Swift as one of the biggest fools or
the crardest knavcs in the world. Ed
wards shows that the Pennsylvania Cen
trail cost only some SIC. 900 per mile.
| and hence declares that 1t was an insult
to believe that the Central cost
SI13. $50. He neglected to state that
when the Pennsylvania road was built
| dollar would do more work and buy more
material than two dollars will now, and
! further that when the Central Pacific
was built, dollar was worth but half
what it row is. While the bill was pend
ing before the Assembly the Union was
mean enough to say that the grades Of
the Central Pacific were not much more
than those Of the Pennsylvania Central,
and that it ought to carry passengers
and freight at nearly the same rates.
The Pennsylvania Central, built night III
a region where rails and cars are made,
with its morning. evening, mail and &C
commodation trains daily and all loa,:et!
( with passengers, with freight trains al
most innumerab!e. constituting, indeed,
| one of the great arteries OF trade betwes,!
the great Mississippi valley and the A
lantic cities; to say this road, built at
fearful cost. and running for hundreds OF
miles through desert waste, should
work upon schedule OF prices adopted
bv the other simply shows that the -
ion does not mean to tell the truth. The
bill passed the Assembly by an over
whelming vote, and was sent to the sen
ate. In the meantime a new sensation
has arisen The people of Grass Valley
and Nevada, tie two most tiourishins
mining cities in the State, want little
narrow-gauge to connect their towns
with Colfax TIE roads if built will be
only some twenty miles long, and viii
cost only some $500, 0O0-not SO much
as an ordinary mile of grading on the
Central through the Sierras; but sudden
" the fact is developed that at the rates
proposed by the Freeman Bill, theil
road will not pay reasonable interest OIL
the money and hence memorials are IL
order. 1t remains to see what the Sen
ate will do in the dilemma. l suppose
DoIIie Warden is to swept Nevada mex
Summer. 1t is pleasant for men Il