The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-05-05

Z threat 20 increase the amount should they
make II pnbic. It means highway robbery,
sir, with hot pincer and thumb-screw accom-
paniments.
rAIsEHooD AND AuDAcrrY.
think have now satisfactorily shown that
the people Of Nevada are struggling under
weight Of railroad impOsitiOns alike unprecc-
dented and unendnrable. Yet, in bis annual
report Of July, 1879, and in bis late reply to
Judge Black, the President Of the Central Pa
ciic Railroad Company audaciously attempts
to defend these outrages. He says:
Determinations, in one sense, may be said
to be made only upon compulsion aud always
against the carrier, 10 he would not take les,
thsn his maximum rate unless forced to do so
by some Of the causes above stated. Disclim im-
nltlon against an individual ora community isa
thing nnknown. The discrimination most preju-
dicial to tho interests Of the company IL that
which arises from competition by other carriers.
which forces lower rate than could otherwise
b wisely obtained
Hero is tho cool admission that, but for COM
petition, the ma nagers OF the Central Pacific
would charge maximum rates in Ill instance 8.
tho freight business OF the road.
In reference to their freight charges In Ne
vada, I ahould like TO know what they would
consider '.maximum rates." the rates l am
warranted in believing they would az but for
the unembarraseing competition Of pack mules
and OK teams. Why, sir, incredible 40 i may
seem, seventeen years ago freiRhts were hauled
on wagons from Sacramento to vir,yinia CITY. up
throueh the heated valleys and over the rough
roads and frozen SUBMITS Of the mountains, for
prices but trfie in advance Of existing railroad
rates between those two points. IN layorable
weather Sacramento freights weret then delivered
in Virginia City at 3l.5O per 100 pounds. The
railroad rates are now Sl 46l< but 81 cents
per 100 less than old teamnx rates.
This ID the only competition which tho people
OF Nevada have to Offer to the railroad imposi.
ton, the only competition with which the rail-
roads are confronted in fixing their rates be-
tween the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains,
for our etreams die il the great basin. and des.
ert barrier and mountain ranges frettine the
clouds have clooed to us al cheaper avenues Of
commercial eupply. Yea. pack-mule competi.
ton in Nevada. Of which the Directors OF the
Centr,l Pacific inferentially complain 9 eogf
Of wicked and unnecessary menace 10 their
financial well-doino. i. indeed. All that stands
between them and the establishment of rates
IN keeninO WITH ther ranacitv. and their
charr.s are scheduled inst rhnde below fic-
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