The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1910-10-06
COMMISSIONS
GOOD WORK
REDUCES TELEGRAPH TOLLS
nHada's Rates Materially Lssssasd Dy Activity
OF Commission, Which Claims To Have
laborsd IndsfaiigabIy 70 Accsmp-
Iish Results.

On December lS, 1909, the Railroad
Commission of Nevada cited the West
ern Union Telegraph Company to ap-
pear and show cause why its rates
charged for the intra-state telegraph
service in Nevada should not be re-
duced. The company appeared before
the commission on April 1st, 1910. be-
ing represented by Mr.. A. H. May,
superintendent of the Pacific Division
of the Company. After the hearing,
the case was submitted to the Commits
sion for final consideration.
After an exhaustive Investigation
the Commission entered an order on
August 16, 1910, reducing the Western
Union Telegraph Company's rates on
all messages heretofore charged at .
rate on day messages Of 40 cents for
the first ten words and three cents for
each additional word to IS cents for
the first ten words and cents for
each additional word and on night mss-
sages a reduction from 80 and 2 cents
to % and cents.
Further, where the rate was hereto
fore so and cents on day message,
the same has been reduced to 40 and
cents, and on night messages reduc-
tion from 40 and 8 cents to 30 and 2
cents.
Further, on all messages transmit.
ted within radius of 200 miles MAXI
mum rate of 25 and 2 cents for day
service and rs and for night service
has been prescribed and all Of the
above rates became effective Septem-
Der Goth, 1910.
Taking twenty word messages as an
average, the following comparative
examples will Indicate the effect Of the
reductions between points in Nevada
A day message from Carson City or
Reno to Winnemucca, of 20 words,
where the charge was formerly 70
cents, it is now only 45 cents or . cut
of 35 per cent.
A day message from Carson City Of
Reno to Eureka, Elko, Wells, Cobre
and Tecoma where the charge was for
merly 30 cents it is now 20 cents or
cut Of 12H per cent.
A day message from Carson City or
Reno to Tonopah or GoldHeId
where the charge was formerly 70
cents, it is now only So cents cs . cut
of 21% per cent.
Further, the night service ID to be
maintained under the new rateq which
offers to business men and Others =
very economical letter service.
Also the Commission found in It's in
vestigation that the rates between Car
son City and Reno and other Nevada
points and Ely were exhorbitant and
unreasonable by reason of the fact that
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany did not operate beyond Cobre,
while from Cobre to Ely the business
was transmitted over an independent
line owned and operated by the Nevada
Northern Railway, this resulting in q
combination of local or double charges
at Cobre. This matter was taken up
with the Western Union Telegraph
Company and the Nevada Northern
Railway and by negotiation the Conn
mission has succeeded in having the
Western Union take over. on an oper-
ating basis, the said Nevada Northern
telegraph line from Cobre to Ely which
in the future will insure to the public .
thr ough rate as prescribed by the
Commission between Ely and all out
side points in Nevada and Eastern and
Western commercial points.
On future business to and from Ely
and other Nevada points the readjuAt-
ments, by reason of the said consolids-
tion and reductions made by the Com
mission will insure an average saving
of from 40 TO SO per cent.
For example, on a day message of
twenty words between Carson City or
Reno and Ely where heretofore the
charge was leo it is, under the new
regulations, only 10 cents.
The aforesaid readjustment of tele-
graph rates will result in a saving of
many thousand dollars annually to the
people Of Nevada.