The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-10-24
RAILROAD RATES.

The maximum rate allowed by law
for carrying freight over the railroads
in. Nevada is twenty cents per toaper
mile. 1t having been charged by the
Virginia Chronicle that certain railroads
exceed this maximum, the Eureka Sen
tinel says it has not heard of any COM
plants on this score from the business
men of Eureka. and calls attention to
the following act, introduced by Sena-
tor Cassidy and passed by the late Leg
islature:
"Section,l. Any individual, compa-
ny or corporation, operating any rail-
road in this State, and every agent OF
such company or corporation who shall
violate or attempts to. violate, OF. suffer
or permit to be done, any act, matter
or thing in violation Of amy of tbs. pro-
visions of any statute in this; State
which, prescribes or regulates, the
charges which may be made aue col
lected by any individual, company or
corporation operating any railroad III
this State for the transportation OF
either persons or property, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeaDsr, and
ON conviction thereof shall pay fine Of
$1,000"
According to the provisions of this
act, any railroad company, or agent of
sach company, who charges more than
the maximum rate, allowed. by law for
carrying freight passengers. is guilty
of a misdemeanorya and subject.to a fine
of s., 900 for every offense.. To. is not
probable that they do it,. however, as
twenty cents. psp mile for, freight and
ten cents, perYnle for passengers ought
to be sufficient to satisfy the most
graspng railroad corporation in Neva-
da, or in the United States for that
matter. The. fact is, the maximum
rates allowed by law, fog freight. and
passengers in NeyaGa are so exormtant
tha.ithe-Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany, Fearless as it ,is.. said to be, does
not pretendtte collect them. This fact
shows conclnsively that, soulless as cor
porations are, they are not asggrinding
and greedy as +. cur l&w,makers. permit
them. to be. Party organs, like the
Virginia Enterprise, pitch into the Gen.
tsal Pacific Railroad Company OCCASION
ally for political effect, andf accuse it
OF charging excessive rates., but they
never utter syllable in condemnation
OF the lawmakers who authorized that
company to charge ten cents per mile
for passengers and twenty cents per ton
for freight, because these lawmakers
were Republicans. There are great
many people just like the Enterprise.
They axe everlastingly denouncing the
Railroad Company as monopoly, bat
accuse those who say the Isepub-
lican party is responsible for the crea-
tion of that monopoly, of being. rebels,
or something of that sorts. Fhe Cen
trial, Pacific Railroad Company is far
more generous to the people than Re
plblican legislators, and does not change
three-fourths of the rates for carrying
freight aud passengers which those law
makers empowers and authorizes it to
Charge over. It's road. The Nevada
newspapers, and politicians cry out
against the eNkortions of the company
to delude the people, but never say
word against tho party which gives
them power and authority to be much
more extortionate than they are. The
Enterprise is accredited with being the
official newspaper of Nevada railroads,
but, for effect, it strikes out at the Cen
tssl Pacific Railroad occasionally, al
ways forgetting to say word against
tae lawmakers, who are responsible fQr.
the excessive rates charged by that
company, for the reason, it is supposed,
that those lawmakers were Repub-
leans.