The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-05-16
STATE SHOULD BATTLE FOR TER
kINAL FREIGHT RATE.

- he following edl orial from the keno
Gazette shhould be carefully reaF
y and digested by every resident OF
Nevada. Like the move of the SILVER
soto for a three-cent fare, the action OF
the Gazette to secure terminal rates on
freight for Reno. is of vital interest =
ev ry Nevadan.
seTwo things have contributed to tie
r~enennwing of tn agitation for a trnin 4
freight rates for Reno. One OF tees
was the destruction of San FranTi Use /;
the other the probable pass ge of tn
Hepburn Bill which intended to do away
with many of the abuses of the rail-
roads and lodge in the interstate COM
merce commission the RAJ -making POW
where existing rates are unjust.
Terminal rates nave been the dream
of Reno-and all over Nevada for that
place was to be of size and Importance.
Even before the present era of asst nish-
ing growth had begun the people of this
place had fought against the arbitrary
power of the railroad which made HE
place. as it makes many others ray q
higher freight rate h many other
pay where the haul is hundreds Of miss
longer. Men with a sound faith II Eeno
and All the rest ofNev ada. men who
have loved tha state and have heen wi
ling to fight for its welfara. have seen
that if equal rates wers vouchsaeed n
CITY raany industries you'd be possible
here Viii Il are now Impossible eeeauseof
the excessive tax placed upan- shippers
by the railroad.
.The Gazette feels that the time has
come for the people Of Reno and the
whole of the state to combine in another
effort to obtain terminal rates. The last
five years have seen the population OF
the state doubled. Mines of manifcisnt
riches and abiding permanance have been
discovered in almost every country in the
state. The wealth of Nevada is poured
out to enrich the who e world. Throug1
the benefcent aid o fthe government ag
ricultural development of the sat has
been made possible. Water is now avail
able for thousands of acres where a few
years ago the widest ~visionist would n /.
day be blossoming fields where then were
but stretches of forbiding sand and sage
brush. These two industries have thirty q
because it has not been IN the power o.
an individual or corporation to pace up-
on them the heavy hand winch should
retaru their deDelopmenI.
'But manufactures we have practi-
cally none, Wholesale houses, sources OF
commercial activity. are denied us be-
STU psoIIleI oUIoed uIsqlncs sul esnro
decreed that this place shall not pay
merely for hauling a carload of material
here. but it shall pay for hauling Il 70
Sacramento and back again. There Is 70
need of arguing the question here now.
We are familiar with the allegations Of
the railroad, They will tell us that the
unfair rates are the Sacramento and Saa
Francisco rates, that because those
places happen to be situated on a river
or an ocean the railroads are compelled
to lose money on everything they haul
to either of them or else lose the BUSH
ness because of the availability of the
deep water vessels to carry commodities
from other places to them. That is the
substance Of the railroads claim. How
PLAUSIBLE we leave to our readers
ut is not the intention OF the Gazette
to endeavor TO stir up q c~ausless agita-