, 1881-04-16

1hOse people who think that there Is
no hardship and oppression to communl-
ties a. a result Of freight discrimination
by the railroads should read the speech
Of Hon. Rollin NJ. Daggett Of Nevada,
deli ered before the legislature OF that
STATE.
TIE Central Pacific railroad, OF which
Mr.. Leland Stanford, who recently Sc
positively declared tha: the people had
no tight to interfere with the railroads,
is President, has practically monopoly
of he carrying trade through Nevada,
and The way in which that privilege IS
exe-e,sed shows what business men
hi. ht expect if there was no competition.
STAFFORD has said that discriminating
aga Est an individual ST a co,nmunity is
:Ling unknown" Mr. Daggett accepts
the challenge thus issued, and shows that
eth er Mr.. Stanford doesn't know what
he IS talking about or wilfully misrepre-
senis the facts. In his speech Mr.. Dag
get, quoted from the schedule rates Of
the company and from copies Of receipted
bills of shippers, showing that goods
going from the east into Nevada, con-
signed. to such points as Reno, Winnie
mucca and Elko, have to pay the full
rates TO San Francisco. and local rates
back to the point where they are un-
loaded. The rate per car load for coal
oil from New York tn San Francisco IS
$500. Wmnemucca is 475 miles this
side of San Francisco, and on the same
kind of freight coming eastward there is
local charge of $3.50 per car lead from
San Francisco to Wnnemucca That, OF
itself, is an extraordinary consideration,
but the unlucky persons to whom the
goods are consigned at Winnemueca find
that if they get their coal oil from New
York they will have to pay the $500 per
car lord clear to San Francisco with the
$3.50 per car load local freight from San
Francisco to Winnemuccs, making in all
the enormous total of 500, or $50 more
than they would if the oil we're unluaded
st San Francisco instead Of at Winnie
mucca, 475 miles this side Of the former
point The freight of car load Of pc.
troleum from Pittsburg to Sacramento
cost $40 %, but if consigned to Battle
Mountain, Nevada, it will amount TO
s77375. Wyoming coal is carried to
San Francisco for 30 ton, but if un-
loaded at Reno, three hundred miles
this side Of San Francisco, the charge
will be S14 a ton. We quote further
from All editorial in the New York
Times:
Limestone is used in the reduction /
of ores There was formerly an extor-
tionate charge for bringing it from Cali
fornia A deposit was found a few miles
from Virginia City, but no sooner was
beginning made IN the working of II than
the railroad rates went down so that the
California article uudersoid that of Ne
vada, and the new enterprise WAS ruined.
The machine shops Of Cold Hill and
Virginia City could easily supply machi-
merry to Eastern Nevada and Utah, if
they could obtain transportation at rea-
sonable rates, but the railroad charges
500 carload more from Reno to Utah
thar from san Francisco to the same
point, and The Nevada business is pre-
vented from developing. So it is that
the Central Pacific rules the industries
of a sovereign state with rod Of iron.
Mr.. Daggett estimates the amount ex-
torted from the people Of Nevada in this
way BY the Central Pacific in ten years
at $50, ,0O0, 600 in excess of what the road
would have earned under a fair and gene
rons management Yet this is the rail
road that owes it's very existence 10 the
bounty of the government III giving
away the lands belonging TO the people,
while its president to-day defies both the
government and the people to collect
even what they are legally entitled to
from its earnings Plainly the country
will not endure such state OF things for
many years