The record-union., 1893-02-01
PERSISTENT MEASUREMENTS COR
RECTED.


The San Francisco Call the San Fran
cisco Bulletin, the Manufacturers Asso-
citation and the Traffic Association assert
day after day, and with a persistence in
dicative either of downright ignorance or
of malicious intent to misrepresent. and
thus to mislead, that railroad rates are so
adjusted that interior points can receive
goods from Eastern markets at a rate for
carriage about the same as is charged the
San Francisco manufacturer for shipping
from that city to the interior points.
-Four times within week this statement
has been put forth with great vigor from
San Francisco.
In an editorial article in the Call On
Sunday appeared a statement, of which
this is the substance:
Goods are brought from New York and
Chicago and distributed at all interior points
IN California at about the same rates the
goods manufactured in San Francisco can be
sent TO the same interior points. Eastern
goods are transported from 1000 to 5000
miles at the same rates as San Francisco
goods are transported from 200 10 500 miles
1t was followed up in the same paper
on Monday by repetition of the state
ment editorially, and the Manufacturers
Association was referred to as an author
ity.
Now let us see precisely what the truth
is. The facts are as follows, well-known
points being taken for illustration: From
SON EropoiSoo 70 Pod Io1,, ~ =; 100
San Francisco to Dunsmuir, 29S miles.
The rate on boots and shoes from New
York to San Francisco is 81 20 per 100;
New York to Red Bluff, 81 20; New York
to Dunsmuir, 81 20 per 100. That is. the
San Francisco manufacturer has in his
favor So 611 per 100 pounds when he sells
to Red Bluff, the rate from San Francisco
to Red Bluff being IS! cents; and 50 II per
100 pounds when he sells to Dunsmuir.
the rate from San Francisco to Dunsmuir
being 81 OS.
In clothing, such as bingham and
denim blouses, duck clothing, jumpers.
overalls and similar clothing of the
rougher kind, in cases (which is a spe-
cialty in California MANUFACTURED, the rate
from New York to Red Bluff is 50 723 per
hundred and to Dunsmuir 81 10 per hun
bred, as against the rate San Francisco to
Red Bluff, 5S!c; San Francisco to Duns-
muir, 81 0S per hundred. Thus the San
Francisco manufacturer has So IA per
h,,rIraI IN, ,,,e - d.
Bluff and So 05 per hundred in his favor
in selling to Dunsmuir.
On blankets in cases, also an item of
California manufacture, the same differ
entails in favor of the San Francisco mer-
chant prevail as on the items of clothing
just enumerated.
Barbed wire, in carloads, from New
York to Red Bluff is charged 81 81; New
York to Dunsmuir, 81 81. From San
Francisco to Red Bluff the charge
is Al cents; from San Francisco
to Dunsmuir, II cents, leaving a
differential in favor of the San Francisco
manufacturer of 81 10 per hundred
pounds when selling either in Red Bluff
or Dunsmuir. Now, 81 10 per hundred
pounds means one and one-tenth cents
per pound, which would be fortune for
an Eastern manufacturer.
The foregoing are but obvious illustra-
tons. The growth of our leading local
manufactures, notably in agricultural i'm
elements, is proof in itself that the field
is extending, otherwise factories, instead
of increasing in number and growing in
strength, would be on the wane. But the
Call says:
The fact is that since the Southern Pacific
Company went into the Transcontinental
Association it has been run in'the interest of
Eastern manufacturers.
Flatly, this is not true. The statement
is based partly on Ignorance, partly on
misapprehension; on ignorance in that
the policy of the Southern Pacific Com
pany. as examination will show to the
imnartial. and which we find confirmed
by the record, is and always has been to
build up California; on misrepresentation
in that what is attributed to the Trans
continental Association is mainly the re-
suit of the Interstate Commerce Act, as