Arizona citizen., 1877-08-04
Cost Of Arizona FreIshts.

some interest to every person in this Territory, and the people of California, especially of San Francisco, are mak- ing it the subject of much newspaper discussion, and they make many errors
 which are injurious. We today quote l from Yuma letter 10 the San Fran cisco Post. Its statements are mainly correct, and yet Its erroneous ones are important. What it says about the construction of railways, is mere spec ulation of the correspondent and can
 pass as snch; but he errs in saying freights rom present end of railway eastward, is one-half cent per pound per 100 miles. The distance from Fl Moro, present railway terminus, from
 which goods are hauled by wagons, to l Tucson, is called about 800 miles, by those best informed. The cost of freight over its 5 toG15 cents per pound, ow- ! ing to kind and time of payment New
 York shippers cannot lay goods down in Tucson or Prescott in less time than can b done from San Francisco to the same points Freights come from San Francisco 10 Yuma in three days and ! from thence here in seventeen to twen- ] ty-five, and the shortest time we ever heard of being made on the direct east ern route from the railway is forty-five days and generally runs over sixty.
 We have heretofore stated the superior advantages of buying in eastern cities, and yet most of our merchants incline | to favor San Francisco. But they es- i innate all advantages of both places,
 and buy accordingly. They are con
 vinced that the through rate of 415
 cents per pound offered by the South
 ern Pacific from New York to Yuma,
 is very low, and we feel sure it leaves
 the $ P. no profit.
 The Southern Pacific IS giving their
 best and most careful attention 10 se-
 curing the Arizona freights. It Is al-
 most essential that they should sue
 ceed, and they thus view the matter. : Their road from San Francisco to Gu-
 ma is 700 miles in length, and over 300
 miles of 1t has comparatively little
 business this year. The general fail
 ure of crops in Southern California,
 makes but little freight to San Francis
 co and correspondingly little in return
 from it The people being thus crip-
 pied, they travel but little. The pas
 senger list telegraphed daily from Mo
 have to Los Angeles shows about
 the travel that a well equipped stage line could carry. We are informed
 that the passengers who get on and
 of the road at Yuma and IndIo from
 and to Arizona, average about as many as from all other stations for 800 miles
 of the road. All things considered,
 the company may be said to deal quite |liberally with Arizona. It has revised its tariff on ores SO that two or three
 tons are carried at as low rates as ten
 or more. On cattle and sheep, the
 rates are liberal, and on other freights, ! all things considered, the tariff is mod crate.
 ] Up till the road reached the Cobra
 do, the company's thought and energy
 were directed to its construction, and | in the meantime, the freight officers re-
 celyed much wrong information on
 which they unfortunately acted, but Just as they get at the exact facts, they 1 act so as to induce our business men
 to patronize the road We will not use space regarding the motives that
 actuate the company, for they are just ] the same that induce our merchants to | buy in New York and ship via New ! Mexico: but tLe company recognizes l that it must foster Arizona business to save itself from continued loss. The profits of other lines will not be used to make up losses on this. There is a growing trade down this way and the company can and must promote its growth. Self interest must make it friendly to Arizona, and as far as it is at all consistent with present and flu ture good business principles, onr peO- pie should reciprocate this friendli- ness