Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-07-01
points to Nevada.

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In this connection the commission
declares the rates to be the highest
main line rates in the entire United
States"
For carrying a carload of first
clss traffic containing 20, 900 pounds
from Omaha to Reno, the Union
and Southern Pacific lines charge
SS5S. If the same carload goes
l54 miles farther to Sacramento the
charge is but 5000. The first-class
rate to the more distant point,
Sacramento. is SO per 100 pounds,
and the near point. Reno. S4.29 per
hundred pounds.
Astonishing facts were developed
concerning the earning capacity of
the Pacific lines. The commission
, show that during the last two years
the operating revenues of the
| Southern Pacific company's system
had increased So. 900, 600 thus pro-
ducing an increaed operating income
of over $l2, 10000, 900 or a net in
crease of about $4,000 per mile of
; its road.
I Referring to other lines of the
Pacific system these commission
n says:
a IF we take the Central Pacific
alone we find it third in the list of
Pacific coast roads in tons carried
and the highest in of all in freight
earnings per mile Sl3.453 per mile
in 1907. While it is one of the
: three roads carrying over a million
tons of freight per mile Of road,
the earnings of the Central Pacific
originates at Denver, 500 miles west
of Omaha, the same rates to Reno
and Sacramento apply; and if the
= freight originates at Boston. 1000
. miles east of Omaha the rates arc
the same.
The commission finds that only %
per cent of the traffic into Reno
from the east originates east of
. Chicago, while 10 per cen origi
mates between Chicago and Denver
. Turning to the division of earn,
ST ingS between carriers on traffic from
the east to Reno, the comm issoir
ly finds that the lions share accrue.
ch to the Southern Pacific company.
n 1t is significant, as indicated il
nd the opinion. that the lines east o,
Ogden. Utah receive exactly tn,
in same divisions out of the s~o-callet
water competition" rates of t.
Pacific coast points terminal, a they
n receive out of the vastly higher
te rates to Nevada points 1.-THE cntir,
ic difference being appropriated by
lie the Southern Pacific company"
y. If the same carload of frcigh
w pN' NV nv va per cent create
id than the average in the United
States and 100 per zen create,
IN than the average of the roads Yves
m of Chicago.
ne In all these cases the commission
provides that the carriers shall tax,
re account of their earnings durin,
II July. August and September, unde.
both the existing rates and III,
ed proposed new rates, with a view I,
al determining the precise relation be
o tween the two systems of rates.
IS, The cmmission divided Nevad,
ID into two zones known as-the Easter
le n he western zone For tn
western o Reno is made the dis
Of tributing point and Winnemucca i
er the distr ibutnig point for III,
to eastern zone. Only class rates mr.,
III affected by the decision of thescom
or mission, the commodity rates bein,
te held up for future INVESTIGATION an,
in future considerati.. en-. The followin,
his first class rates have been mad,
m by the commission from caste,
ic points to Reno and Winnemucca:
a. Denver and Colorado points +,
a. Keno S2.l9 to Winncmucca, SO. 90
Grand Island. group G, to Reno
IL $3.50 to Winnemucca, S2.19.
5. Omaha, group +, to Reno 50 6,
to Winnemucca, $3.50 .
al Clinton, group f. to Reno 50 30
to Winnemuca 80 0
Chicago. group L, to Reno, SO o.
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