Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-12-23
RAILROAD, STAGE q TEAM.

A correspondent Of the Uklah press
gives some of his experience connect
ed with stage fares and team freights,
and compares them with what he
formerly considered the sxtortionste
railroad charges. This correspond
emit was once one of the most violent
dsnunciators of what he thought was
railroad extortion, but now make the
following comparison:
First about fares: The distance
from here to San Francisco is 121
miles. The first 81 miles is staging,
fare % 25, time at present about Z
hours. The other 90 miles is by
railroad fare 81; time for 80 miles,
A hours. Comment upon the fare add
time 10 unnecessary at the present
state of the roads. Rather than be
crammed in a mud wagon, passengers
prefer to walk aud get a rest, while
on Donahue's road we are comf.rta
BILE for the remainder of the trip, at
q cost of about one third of that Of
staging. Many of US would oday
gladly pay IS for the 81 miles If We
could ride in the cars, Keep our wear
ing apparel clean, and make much
better time. As we'll as others,
have paid tie extortionate prices OF
the C. P. and V. & T., in Nevada, aud
now am paying the price of hauling
by team, to Wit: Railroad charges
from San Francisco to Cloverdale,
80 miles, Sc 40 per ton; thence to
here 81 miles, by team Tin the Sum
mer) $40 per ton, and now when the
rainy season, or Winter, has set in, it
10 $50 per ton, and so'n, | SIN inform
ed, will he from to 4 cents per pound
according to the state of the roads.
The charges of the railroad remain
the same, So 40, rain or shine.
The above will be appreciated by
any person who is obliged to make
journeys by stage at this season Of the
year, especially if they begin their
journey in clean we'll warmed cars.
10 concluding the correspondent
strikes the keynote of a we'll known
air when he says:
Snow we are anxious for railroad,
and if it ever gets here we'll have a
public celebration in honor of the
event, but if SIX or eight months after
wards we are not provided with free
ETC., we will akin the man that
put the money up to build the road
if he ever comes here"
The same remarks with q change
of figures will apply to almost any
railroad on the Coast, and as we'll to
the C s. G. as to any, which road is
hauling freight and supplies at rea-
sonabls figures to points where before
built, it was almost impossible to
haul by team at any figure. In so
doing it has opened larg, section
of country rich in mineral resources,
and made q market for the products
of many districts, which previous TO
the building of the road, were as
though they were out of the world so
far as transportation of ores was con
cerned. Nevertheless there are many
cheap politicians who manufacture
by catering to the prsju.
dices of the ignorant who loudly de-
claim that railroads are running the
and there are plenty stupid
enough to believe them, with the ru-
in wrought by the road in plain view
in the form of cheaper travel, cheaper
fseight, greater comfort and facilities
and new districts constant
ly being developed which give em
ployment to those who complain
about paying SIS for the same haul
Ing which would previously have cost
them from five to eight times that
amount.