Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-01-21
THE C. p. DISCRIMINATION.

tongued and paid ad vocates of the corporation
are in Carson instructing the various COM
mittees and the members how to act in the
premises. Men of average sense and ability
in the Legislature need no advice from Mr..
Gage or any body else on the framing Of rail-
road bills. Would a committee who had a
bill under consideration regarding the pun
isbment of felones, admit the agents of
thieves, murderers and highwaymen to their
rooms to advocate the views of felons on the
subject? The people do not send Assembly,
men to Carson to debate with railroad agents
on the subject of fares and freights. Two
years ago an act against rairotA 49,, .li,..ua-
tons was passed by the Les .s.~,.A.. Any
violation OF the act is punishable by inpri>on,
ment. During the past two years the railroad
companies, through their agents, have con-
tnued to violate the law, and every one of
these men should be i'll Jail to pay for so do
ing Let us see how these determinations
have been made. The APPEAL has received
a mass Of evidence upon this subject which
will astonish the people of Nevada when
printed, We take few samples from the
heap. A box OF eggs from Salt Lake to
Cherry Creek costs one man 50 30 a box, and
the same number Of eggs, in the same sized
box, and the same weight, costs another man
65 cents. A hundred pounds of squashes
costs one man in freight 81 30, and another
SIS cents Hams, tea and case goods cost one
man 81 o. per hundred, and another 90 cents.
These are determinations against individuals,
by which means the friends of the c. Z. Road
can drive rivals out of business. A car load
of merchandise from San Francisco to Toano
CD cnv Inn
load of 10000 pounds. This is for the shipper
who does not bow to the corporation and vote
and work for the road. Special rates are
granted, however, to friends of the road by
which car load of freight is conveyed from
San Francisco to Toano tor S245.
The following is a private agreement en-
tered into by the G. p. X. X. and merchant
doing business along the line of the company.
The name of the merchant is not published
for obvious reasons. The contract is partly
printed and partly written, and reads as fol-
lows:
This agreement made and entered into this
third day of May, n. d. one thousand eight
hundred and eighty, by and between the
Central Pacific Railroad Company, party OF
the first part and the firm OF -,
--, Nevada, party of the second
part,
Witpesscth: That in consideration of the
agreement of the party of the second part, as
hereinafter described, to be, by the said party
of the second part, fully performed, main
tanned and fulfilled, SAID party of the first
part hath covenanted and agreed, and doth
hereby covenant and agree, that upon all the
goods, wares and merchandise shipped by or
consigned to the said party OF the second part
at ---, Nevada, on and after the date
hereof, and during the term OF one year next
ensuing, the freight charges shall not exceed
the following rates, in United States Cod
Coin:
1t being mutually understood and agreed
that all rates hereinafter quoted are per one
hundred pounds unless otherwise stated.
For all articles not hereinafter specially pro-
vided for, if shipped from san Francisco to
Toano, Nevada, at the rates provided by the
printed schedule of Rates numbered eighteen
isl and dated to take effect November lst,
1876, which is attached hereto and made a
part of this agreement. If shipped from
Ogden, Utah, to Toano, Nevada, at the rates
provided by the printed schedule of rates
numbered nineteen [l9l and dated to take
effect November lst, 1876, which is attached
hereto ami made part of this agreement.
For flour, in carloads of not less than twen- |
ty thousand pounds, from San Francisco to
ToanO, one dollar; from Ogden to Toano fifty |
cents. |
For coal oil, from San Francisco to Toano, |
one dollar and seventy-five cents from Ogden |
to Toana, one dollar and five cents.
For ordinary gunpowder, from San Fran |
cisco to Toano, two dollars and thirty-tive |
cents; from Ogden to Toano, one dollar and |
Ave cents.
For salt, in carloads of not less than twenty |
thousand pounds, from Sau Francisco to
Toano, seventy-five cents; from Ogden to
Toano, thirty-five cents.
For onions and beans, from San Francisco
to Toano, one dollar and twenty-five cents;
from Ogdon to Toano, one dollar.
For dried fruits, from San Francisco to
Toano, two dollars; from Ogdon to Toano,
one dollar and fifty cents.
The said party of the first part further
agrees that the freight of the said party of the
second part shall be transported without I'M
time and attention as compared with goods
of the same class consigned to other parties.
In consideration of the foregoing special
rates of freight, which are LOWER THAN THE
PUBLISHED TARIFF, the party of the second
part hath covenanted and agreed, and doth
hereby covenant and agree 10 ship or cause
to be shipped by way of the Central Pacific