Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-12-25
RAILROAD DISCRIMINA-
 TON,


 do complain most bitterly of what i
 most c.earlY most unjust diScrimi
 nation in rates, matter that give our business men no chance what ever Tn competition with California | business men. Iu verificatiGn O this assertion we have secured, iron entirely trust worthy and authentic
 sources, the following facts ano
 figures which show for themselve: how the matter complained of stands
 Take for instance a carload ot flour, 10000 pounds; the actual
 freight charged on it from Los Angeles to Tucson is $164, or S2 cents per 100 pounds; the distance is 496 miles, which makes the rate a frac- tion over 165 mills per 100 pounds per mile. For the same carload the railroad company's charges from Maricopa to Tucson are $80, or 40 cents per 100 pounds; the distance is 91 miles, which makes the rate a fraction less ;that A mill per 100 pounds per mile. To put the above rates in round numbers and plain terms the business men of this valley pay very nearly four times as much for hauling 100 pounds one mile over the railroad as Los Angeles men do, which, in itself, is sufficient 10 establish the original proposition. But we extend the illustrator by statement of further facts, which, with the above, we tabulate for the sake of convenience of comparison, making, as before, carload of four of 10000 pounds the basis of the calculation:
 Los Angeles to Tucson:
 Distance 496 miles; rate per 100
 lbs, e2 cents, or 1.65 mills per 100
 lbs. per mile.
 Maricopa to Tucson:
 Distance 91 miles; rate per 1Os
 lbs, 40 cents, or 4 mills Ter 100 lbs per mile.
 Los Angeles to Benson:
 Distance 542 miles, rate per 100
 lbs, s9' cents, or 15 mills per 100 lbs per mile.
 Maricopa to Benson:
 Distance 137 miles; rate per 100
 lbs, 55 cents, or 4,01 mills per 100
 lbs. per mile. 1 Los Angeles to Wilcox:
 Distance 592 miles; rate per 100 l
 lbs, 82 cents, or IA mills per 100 | lbs. per mile. Maricopa to Wilcox:
 Distance IF miles; rate per 100 |
 lbs, 60 cents, or 4 mills per 100 1
 lbs. per mile These illustrations might be7ex- tended still further and applied to grain and hay, in which cases it would appear that the discumina lion is yet more grinding than in he case of flour. Furthermore, if | the rates from Maricopa to Yuma md Los Angeles 10 Yuma were com> pared they would show still greater | discrimination, which practically | shuts out our produce entirely in that direction. Again, we have shown that the rate from Mar1copa 0 Tucson, per 100 pounds, is 40 .ents by the carload; from Tucson o Maricopa the rate is 10 (ten) cents ! per 100 pounds in any sized cargoes. These are facts, which any of our business men who ship over the oad will verify.
 And yet, if merchant should ap- ply to any of the freight agents along he road in Arizona or at Los Ange- es for a rate on flour from Les Angeles to Tucson, he would be informed that It is $1.25 per 100 pounds; such, however, is not the act, as we can show by indisputable evidence.
 Agaln, the argument IS put for ward, in support of these unjust rates, that5freight cannot be moved 1t the same rates, or nearly the same rates, for short distances as for ong distances on account of the increase of handling. How this can enter into the consld- sration: it. is difficult to understand, for it a we'll known fact that the shipper is obliged to load his goods onto the cars and the consignee re- moves them from. the same without cost, in either case, to the raiHoad | They furnish no help in either case; they are at no expense, and, on the average, their rolling | stock is standing still longerand hence less wear and tear and no risk. Sl-'-
 In view of these facts there can certainly beno good reason why one man should be compelled to pay