Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-11-28
FAIR FREIGHT r

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week in the Court House bv Con-
gresham Newlards he pointed out
the Importance of making Reno a
distributing center. He advised that
a competent committee be Appointed
to consult with the railroad people
on the subject and expressed the hope
tina continuous pressure, without
heat or rancor, would eventually
produce an impression. for. IN his
opinion, it is as much in the interest
OF the railroad people as of the citi-
zens of Reno to build up this State
Regarding this very vital question
the Reno Journal has the following to
say:
A plain statement of facts relative
to the transportation question in Ne
vada certainly could not be consid-
cred heated or ranCorOus by the rail
road company. Under existing regu-
%latlons, nuless merchants. misrepre-
sent matters, and as proof that they
do not they exhibit freight receipts to
S~ubStantlate their assertions, a Ne
Vada merchant pays nearly three
times as much for a carload of freight
from points east of the Missouri river
as a Sacramento merchant has to paw
Tor a similar carload taken through
Nevada and over the Sierra Nevada.
That is a reason, and a very convinc-
ing one too, why goods purchased al
the factories IN the East cannot be
sold as cheap in Nevada as in San
Francisco or Sacramento, on the west
side of the Sierra Nevada, though
Nevada is nearer the factory and the
goods sold in Sacramento or San
Francisco are taken through Nevada.
To make Reno a distributing center
as suggested hv Mr.. Newlands, it is
only necessary for the railroad COM
pany to give the Reno merchant an
equal show with the California mer-
chant. Nevadans as a general rule
believe in fair play. They do not
ask the railroad people to discrimi-
nate III their favor against San Fran
cisco. They do not ask for a lower
rate than is given San Francisco on
goods from the East because of the
shorter haul, but they cannot be
rlghttully charged with being heated
or %rancorous in imploring the rail
road people to charge them no more
for leaving their freight at EIko,
Wlnne'uucCa OF Reno than they
would charge for hauling the same
freight through the State and Ove-
mountains to tide water on the other
side.
1t is greatly to be hoped that the
committee, which Mr.. Newlands sug-
gested should be appointed by the
people of Reno, will take the trouble
to ascertain whether it be a fact that
freight rates from the East to Nevada
are about three times as high as they
are to tide water, and, if so, call the
attention of the railroad people to
such unjust discrimination. Surely
{ pressure need not be great nor
continuous to get the railroad people
to right such 4 great wrong. 1t is
manltestly so unjust to compel the
Nevada merchant to pay nearly three
times as much for a carload or freight
left in Nevada as it would cost him to
have the same freight in the same
car hauled two or three hundred
miles further west over high noun
ta1ns, that if the attention of the rail
road people is directed to the matter
they will a. once adopt a new and
more equitable schedule of rates for
Nevada.
The committee should lose no time
IN ascerta'ning the facts regarding
freight rates. The matter is of the
greatest Importance to Nevada and
the railroad people may be perfectly
willing to deal fairly with this State
II they are advised of the manner in
which their schedules discriminate
against it.