Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-05-11
PLANT OF THE v & T.
A Simple Statement Of Facts
Regarding Its Rule or
Ruin Policy

business men OF the city. The News
takes the ground that the hard times
here is the result Of a mistaken policy
of fighting the V. & T. r. r. Co. 1t
says:
The railroad and every other in
terest connected with it has been
fought on about every possible
proposition, some Of them inslgnlfi-
cant, until there is no organization
in town, and no set of officials that
could go as committee of citizens
and ask concessions from them.
The writer of the above evidently
does not know anything Of the history
of the V. & T. r. r. Co. and it's con-
pection with Carson.
Its officers and managers came here
in the early days and got the County
mmissioners of the counties of
Washoe, Ormsby and Storey to bond
he counties to raise money to enable
them to build railroad.
These Boards, plant to the wishes OF
Vic SCHCuClS. -SSuCu UhC OoiuS "hN
bound the taxpayers to advance the
money to the road, not as loan but AS
clean gift. The people who advanced
the money were then called upon to
pay the interest on it, and SO it was
that Ormsby county gave up in the
neg borhood of six hundred thousand
dollars to the road. Not dollar has
ever been paid back. At one time the
road, according to it's sworn statement,
was clearing over one thousand dollars
! a day.
Still it made no effort to repay the
people, to whom it gave nothing in re-
turn for the money advanced, and it
dod ged its taxes at every opportunity.
If it req uired perjury to cover up the
amount of its actual income it was
forthcoming.
1t owned the legislature, and it
owned the courts and it dictated who
were to be the Assessors, County Com
missioners and Judges GA the Bench.
No one dared to GO to law with this
bullying corporation.
Not until the people revolted and
the Silver party began to elect its
Judges, Commissioners and Assessors
did this state of affairs change.
The road charged such prices for its
fre,ghts and fares that it sucked the
very life blood of this section of the
State. The taxes it forced upon the
people and its exhorbitant charges
paralysed business.
No one could accumulate money here
who was not ION the inside with the
road. Even the insiders were not so
very well off, for nearly every man who
got contract from the road or its
twin ally, the Tahoe F lume Il Lum Der
Co. went broke before he finished the
contract.
The vast sums of money accumulat-
ed by the road went to San Francisco
and New York.
About the same time the projectors
of the road fastened the Water Co. on
the people of Carson and this was
another method of bleeding them. The
stock holders of these three corpora
tons have been rolling in wealth while
other industries languished. The
money, beyond what they are com
. PEELED to pay for wages, is not spent
) here in Carson. Nearly all the Off.
: GERS of these corporations have Wells
Fargo Frank between here and San
Francisco. They get rything pos.
sible in San Francisco. Even theil
beef steaks and their loaves of bakers
bread comes up from below by Wells
Fargo free of cost if common report is
to be believed
No one can start an enterprise here
without first consulting them. I ht
creamery proposition was fought fo1
this reason The projectors had NC
gone down to the V. & T. office hat il
hand and asked permission to engage
ia the enterprise. Whenever the roal
!, needed to it snapped Oft Carson in The
legislature for itself The members o
the legislature, elected by the V. & T.
voted against having the State Uni
versity here The sop was thrown tt
Washoe county to keep certain peopl'
from fig hting the road. This trade
gave Carson City a mortal blow ant
was the making of Reno.
An attempt was made at the last ses
sion to enable the people OF this city t.
own their own water plant and escap
the burdens of high rates forced upol
them by the Water Company. Th'
V. & I. people dewned it in the legis
lature by hiring professional lobbyist
from Reno to deprive the people o
this city OF the right to vote on tn
question. 1t is the local road that ha
dubbed Carson almost to death ant
now they have the gall through thei
organ to lay the blame on the people
who years ago went down in thei