Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-21
MORNING APPEAL.


RAILROAD TO VIRGINIA CITY.-Last Mon
day and again on Tuesday citizens meeting
was held in Truckee for the purpose Of dis
cussing the project of building railroad from
Reno to Virginia City. A committee was ap
pointed whose duty it shall be to lay the
whole question before Leland Stanford, Mark
Hopkins and Huntington, and ascertain from
the latter parties what action they were will
ing to take in the matter, and make full re
port on the subject.
We have heard the report that the manag-
ers of the Central Pacific have telegraphed to
Yerington, Bliss & Co. that unless they re-
duced freigh on the V. & T. r. r. one-half
that they would build an opposition road in
side of three months Reno Gdzette.
Business is business. There is no poetry,
nor sentiment, nor loftily expressed indigna-
ton in it. The Truckee mill companies are
in arrears to the Truckee merchants. 1t is
necessary that these latter-who have taken
the mill-men's lumber ut something less than
half its value,-should make sale OF their
largely accumulated wares. So they are very
busy making fuss. They, and not the c.
P. Company are trying to scare the Y. & I.
people, The Central Pacific management are
On the contrary, they are the most successful
and unrelenting monopolists in the United
States. There is nowhere else such one
sided railroad system as that which is control
led and mainly owned by Stanford, Croker,
ct ais Doubtless the Central Company would
like to seize the " & T. Companys road on
their own terms But we do not believe they
can ever do So The Bank of California peo-
pie are very stiff in the back. Sharon is an
exceedingly difficult man to move by any
blufing process. Mills is very sound ON his
financial pins, and very stubborn He could
afford to give away his railroad interests III
Nevada and still have enough to keep him
from want. Still, rather than sacrifice their
interests, business, we say, being business,
We suppose the V. & T. people would sell out
or make any business-like compromise sooner
than see their property rendered worthless.
But the Central Company cannot possibly see
any business in railroad to Virginia City
an opposition line If they can, they will
doubtless build it; but they will not build it
out of spite OF any such terms are limited at
by the Gazette. And 1t would be very un-
business like and strange if the Central Pa
cific Railroad Corporation should deliberately
seek a quarrel with Senator Sharon. He
holds q seat in the upper branch of Congress
and owns a very large share of the '. 4 T.
Railway. His interests and Jones interests
are very much in common They are both
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as well as Sharon is an owner in a line of rail
road which is independent of the c. z. Com
pany's line. The latter corporation are con-
stantly asking legislation at the hands OF Con-
gress. If the managers of that concern are
as acute as We believe them to be, they will
hesitate long time before doing anything to
bring upon themselves the enmity of these
strong, influential members of the Senate
Even business men fall out sometimes and do
some very foolish things; but we do not be- |
lieve that the Central Pacific People and the |
Bank of California management are anything |
but the best of friends-too good friends to |
let their interests clash-too shrewd friends |
to so far fall out as to give the general public |
the benefit of their chickering's. Your big |
capitalist rarely does business in that style. |
If the G. ?. already had line running to |
Virginia, doubtless they would put the tariff
down in order to injure the V. & T.; but we
do not believe they are going to build an OPP
position line for the sake of compelling re-
duction of rates, or that they have made any
such threat as the Gazette speaks of.