Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-01-05
A STATE RAILROAD.
A Carson Ian Disc0urses on a
Great Proposition.

L
gate the proposition that | now pro
pose, and carry 1T out, we will have
the best State in the Union. My
proposition is for the STATE Of Ncr-
! ada to build IL railroad from Carson,
or some other central point liz New
ada, to the Sacramento River, and
to absolutely own and control the
road for the benefit of the people.
For instance, start at Carson, run
up through Carson Valley, Fred
| ricksburg, Diamond Valley, Alpine,
| around Lake Tahoe on the South,
through Lake Valley and then over
the hill to Strawberry, down the
American river to Placerville, and
from there to the Sacramento river,
which will put this State in direct
communication with the ocean and
make this State a competitive point,
the same as New York, San Fran
cisco, New Orleans or Boston, and
we could make our own rates and
get goods in here as cheap as they
can in San Francisco.
In running this road through the
country have just mentioned, there
are thousands of acres of land, both
farming and timber, with plenty Of
natural reservoirs for the storage of
water for irrigation and manufactur-
ing purposes, and all of this land
would be covered with thousands of
homes of industrious families, with
nes farms, new mines, stone and
slate quarries, and manufactures of
different kinds.
There would be no end to bust
ness for the road. Now in order to
make this a success, the road must
be run for expenses and in+e~rs' "'
the bonds only, for % or 81 years.
The freight and fare charges must
be reg lated in accordance with
those expenses.
In order for the State to do this
we will first form new political
party, throw all old party issues
aside and go in with this one issue
alone The platform must be most
binding; the penalty for violating
the platform must be death. When
putting candidate on the ticket for
the Legislature or any other office,
first state to him the proposition
clearly and make him thoroughly &C
quainted with the platform, and
then ask him if he can go to the
Legislature on platform that has
death penalty.
These strict measures would have
to be used, for just as soon as it was
known what we proposed to do, the
sack would be sent to head 1t of, and
the penalty to cur platform is all
that we would have to head off the
sack Next in order after getting
our representatives, would be to get
the necessary legislation constitu-
tional, and otherwise, and bond the
State for three million dollars, at 3
per cent per annum, bonds redeem
able in 30 years.
Make the Governor, State Con-
tro,'er, State Treasurer, Surveyor
General, and Attorney General a
Board of Directors; the Governor to
be the General Superintendent, and
he could appoint his assistant super
intendent, the committee to see that
the representatives stand firm for
this proposition must be secret
committee appointed by the Cen
trail Committee of this party, AMI
with the penalty properly executed
there will be no danger of any mem
Der falling.
When this road is complete it will
not be necessary to charge more than |
So for a round trip from here to San
Francisco and not more than J of a |
cent a pound for freight, local rates.
and not more than $40 car for car
Dads. The bonds will be paid by I,
the generation to come, the rising
generation, and the falling genera
ton only pays the interest Oh the
bonds, and by the time the bonds
become payable the State will have
become so prosperous that the in
crease in taxes viii pay 1t and the
people will never feel it. The man
that OWLS one dollars worth of prop
erty today will when the road is
be worth So, it will be as
cheap to live in Nevada as in San