Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-17
LEGISLATION ON RAILROADS.

- 3, notice That speaker JaStOu mas gwen
t.,t,.,o of a bill to regulate fares and freights
-; ,lroads The bill will doubtless be forth
e.,,,1;eg i'll few days, when we can all judge
q: =, merits Speaker CASTOR is an old res
,igu- of Nevada, and ought to be able to pre-
p,r,, bill that will be just. While our reo-
ne e greatly and justly exercised on the
c,i,, lion of fares and freights, at the same
-. there is not a man in the State who
g. =, not appreciate the blessing which rail
go can be, and who does not want their ex-
ION. We trust, then that no legislator
>, 10 anything in malice or spirit of re-
Q toward railroad companies. They are
led to justice precisely as are individuals.
:: say this much, first, because it is right,
=. secondly, because Just now the great
-. t of Nevada is two or three hundred
IS Of new railroad There are some hun
is, probably altogether three thousand
., no are idle in the State, and who need
.ioyment Our mining superintendent
everrun with applicants daily, and every
f,te house in town has daily applicants for
,risy. A railroad running south one hun
D.: i miles from here, or from Carson, would
,&e work for ten thousand, possibly twenty
.usand men, in places where all now is ST.
t. This is a most important considera-
IL and in its bearings reache out to the
crest, not only of the poor, but of every
<-payer in the State. A road north from
,,,o is almost as important as one south
va Carson. Such road would reduce
third the cost of almost all the staple ar
4es of food now consumed by our people
i the dumb helpers, and open up an Him
Die tract Of timber. A road north from the
,ntral Pacific to Paradise Valley will be al
-nst necessity within twelve months.
nd to Tuscarora is almost necessity now.
Ill these roads will traverse deserts, and de-
:ad wholly upon local patronage for support.
ese facts should never be lost sight of by
;sislstors. They should exact strict justice
IN railroads the same as from individuals,
1t no more. And when justice is secured,
,.ry encouragement should be extended to
-:lroad companies, because there are no
ally prosperous countries except those III
.,,ich railroad facilities are abundant, but at
lie same time cheap, and how to secure
.enty of roads, and at the same time limit
nose roads to just rates, is the problem
mich our legislators are called upon to
.restle with. -EnterpriSe.
The assumption in the foregoing is that
LOCAL railroads develop mining centres. The
= ,ntrary is the fact. Prosperous mining cen
sr4s cause the building of railroads.
The experiment of railroad building has been
I'd TO the cost of the merchants and team
AIRS of Western Nevada, Railroads in this
part of the State have proven an absorbent OF
al neighboring industries Notably the wood
and teamsters interests.
In the early days of Nevada everybody
reaped the benefit of big prices. The team
ser, the farmer, the merchant, the mechanic,
ae foundryman, all had taei share. Now
al the best business of the Staae concentrates
in tn e railroads.
Now the prices are reduced on everything
but transportation.
The railroads have monopoized the bust
nsss which used to give employment to two
thousand teams; thousands of mules; great
numbers of prosperous stable nen; hundreds
II quartz teams; and many industries now
dead
Everything is down to bed rock prices but
abroad freIghtS and fares.
Look at the determinations practiced by
he V. & T Railroad III transporting wood
Ind lumber. We viii particuIarize, all in
good time.
Wherever mining district supports many
cams and large trade, there the railroads
lave been and will be pushed
The Central Pacific Railway has tapped
he State and given it's merchants in bond age
% the merchants of San Francisco.
Let no people be humbugged by the spe-
ious talk Of railroad lobbyists, agents and |
awyers.
The Rni1road companies m,N nerer buiLd
Dad ony,rhere until they are sure 1T mill pay
hem; and eren then they wW try and induce
he people whoss industries they mean to absorb
0 facilitate their schemes; and then they w;Ii |
are t6ei grading done by Chinamen.
Remember what we have said