Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01

994, $40 pounds. If we add the pounds
shipped by the latter place over the Cali
fornia Southern up to October 81, 1889,
count more than is credited to Sacra-
mento, to with the 7, 116,OOO and still Los
Angeles shipped but 53.lO5,97O, and the
excess of Sacramento's shipments were 80.
6S8,0S0 In the matter of west-bound
freight, Los Angeles very considerably ex-
ceeds the Sacramento figure, but foot
note calls attention that all freight west
bound to Cotton is included in the Los
Angeles figure, so that no just comparison
of imports can be made between the two
places.
We find from this report also state
ment of the employees of the railway sys-
TEN of California. Out of the 1882 hands
employed, the Southern Pacific Company
employs 1854; of the 500 locomotives
operated, the Southern Pacific Company
runs 702; of the ,O82 railroad stations in
the State, S97 of them are those of the
Southern Pacific Company. The railroads
employ in their operation, one locomotive
to each 4.94 of mile; one passenger car
to each 3.S1 of mile, and 3.S freight cars
to each one mile of road operated. The
Commission, in concluding its report and
which contains many valuable statistics
that must be reserved for examination at
later date, says:
We think it opportune in conclusion to refer
to a subject which, during the last year or two
has forced itself on the attention OF every one
connected with railway management, control
or regulation. and to which this Commission
has given wa;chful attention. We refer to the
operation of the Interstate Commerce Act
Alter very dihgent inquiry, we are inclined to
the belief that the fourth section of the Act
known as the long and short haul clause, is
prejudicisl to the interests of our State. Our
people are large consumers of all the manu-
features and many Of the products of the East
ern States and are vitality interested in securing
advantageous rates for the transportation from
remote States. which manu- acture largely and
cheaply, or supply the products we need. With
in very few years our people have become
large producers of commodities tor which the
home market is very limited, but for which
there is q vast market in the Eastern States, and
to the expansion of the marketing area for our
products, we must, in a large measure,
look for continued prosperity. Any law
restricting our markets, whether as
consumers or producers is of doubtful
public utility. There can be nothing
wrong OF harmful to the interests of
the people of this nation in the greatest free
dom for interchange of commodities between
the East and West, and the law which makes
the rates and facilities to or from remote Sec
tons of this great country dependent on the in
terests of intervening sections of comparatively
trifing importance 10 Us, cannot be beneficial
in its results to this State This we think
wrong on the highest public grounds nor can
we conceive it to be in any sense to the real in
terest of our people Although the functions Of
this Commission are necessarily and properly
regulatiye, we think it well not TO lose sight of
the fact that our own railways are very
large distributors of moneys in our midst, Il
large proportion f their earnings returning
into general circulation, which is not the case
with foreign carriers. On the whole we feel
justified under every wise consideration in
entertaining the hope that eonsiderate and
timely national legislation will obviate the
anomalies which the present Federal law reg
ulating carriers has produced.