Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-03-13

COMMISSION
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Sacramento. over the same line and
back q distance of more than 300
miles greater. the charge is 80 IL
cents less per hundred-a difference
og $3.50 a ton. or of $5i3 on a car
load Of 80 TOMS -"
An example of rates in hess than
carload rates will now be given.
On cotton piece goods the rate
from Chicago to Sacramento rs Sl.3S
per hundred: from Sacramento TO
Goldfold it is SIS per hundred
making a total of $4.3S. The rate 20
Reno on the same goods Is. S1.1o 10
sacramento and 1929 pack to Reno,
making S2.i9; from the last named
place To Goldneld the charge is $2.Qi,
making altogether $4.S3-a difference
OF 45 cents in favor of thc Sacram-
cuto dealer. while as between the
consumers OF Reno and the consum'
rrs Of Sacramento. the difference is,
as indicated. $1.29. *"""
Petitioners further ave and show
that instead of the freight charges
to the said city of Reno being made
very much higher than those to the
said City of Sacramento such Charges
should, in fact, be lower, by reason
of the shorter haul, and the avoid
anCe OF higher grades over the Sierra
Nevada Mountains. which greatly
increase the cost Of Transporting
freight.
Petitioners further ave that II
h CHER charges to tne Cay OF Keno
than TO the City OF Sacramento, the
back haul charges hereInbefore men
toned are excessive. and constitute
an unjustiiable and injurious dis
elimination against the saiu City OF
ono. and It's business interests.
wherefore, your petitioners ask
that your honorable body proceed. as
soon as practicable, To investigate full
is the matter of the unjust and eXces-
sye charges h~ereinbefore mentioned;
lHdl lu' N'llll Sl' wv -
yoStigatIon, request the railroad com
panics making and sharing in such
argos. that they desist from do
ing So, and accord to Il" people OF
50. City ct Reno freight charges
that will be just and reasonable for
the service rendered; and mat in the
event OF Saiu railroad companies re-
ius,ng or failing to comply with the
request, the Commission apply TO the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
SUCH relief as may be equitable, as
provided by Section u OF the Rail
read Commission Law OF this State.
Signed by the Petitioners.
Your petitioner further AYERS that
ON or about said May LIST, 1908. a
written notice was sent by mail 10
t.. T.. Calvin. General Manager OF the
defendant companies mentioned here
in, namely, the Southern Pacific Com
raiy and the Nevada and California
Railway Company. at San Francisco.
California, and that a copy Of the said
notice was a. the same time sent to
t.. ". Clapp. District Freight and
Passenger agent of said defendant
companies at Reno, Nevala, that on
May 25th. A. ID. 1908, the petitioner
herein would begin investigation OF
tnc subject matter of the petition
hcreinbefore set forth. which notice
was accompanied by Il copy of the
said petition, and invited said com
panies to be present ana take part
in said Investigation; tina in due
time said defendant companies,
through their General Freight Traffic
Manager, replied TO said notice. de-
Clining to take part in the said in
ycstigatiOn upon the general ground
that the subject of the inquiry being
one OF interstate freight rates. the
jurisdiction belonged exclusively to
the Interstate Commerce Commits
SION
Petitioner AYERS tnat on. to-wit. the
10Th OF May. A. ID. 1908. { duly and
regularly began SAID investigation
which was continuous until the 9th
day of June, A.. ID. 1908. at which
time your petitioner, the said Rail-
road Commission of Nevada. reached
its conclusions upon the facts Set
forth In he petition fled with said
Nevada Railroad Commission. which
Tnn1lnGinnG arc set forth in tho To-.
lowing request, duly served upon
said defendant companies: $3.50
Before the Railroad Commission of
Nevada.
IN the matter OF Freign. rates
10 and from Reno owe the Southern
iacific uOmpany's lines.
10 ihD SauIlGrn pnGiHG RailrQal