The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1910-07-07
NEW RAILROAD RATES GRANTED
Nevada Comes Within Scope
of Commissions New
Rate Ruling.
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ZJtn by the interstate commerce COM
mission countrywide in Importance
They affect freight rates. both class
and commodity on all transcontlnental
lines operating between the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans Extensive reduc-
tions were ordered.
In what is known as the Reno case,
the class and commodity rates from
Sacramento, CAL, by the Southern Pa
cific between Reno, New, and Cecil
Junction, Utah, were declared excessive
and reasonable rates. were pre-
scribed
In what is known as the Portland
..back haul' case, the Commission de-
cided that the freight rates from Se-
attic, Tacoma and Portland to points in
Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Mon
tana were unreasonable and reduction
of 20 per cent was proposed.
In the Spokane rate case, the Com
mission decided that present freight
rates were excessive ano unjust and re-
sonable rates on both class and commo-
dity freight were established for the
| future.
Present class rates between Utah
common points and Mississippi and
Missouri River transfer points were
also found to be excessive and were
ordered 20 be reduced about IS per
cent.
In case involving class freight rates
from Eastern territory to Phoenix,
Ariz., the Commission ordered reduc-
tions of approximately 80 per cent.
On complaint of the Railio DAD Com
mission of Nevada, the Interstate Com
merce Commission held that the class
rates from Eastern defined territory to
points in Nevada were unreasonable
and ordered that rates materially lower
be put into effect by the carriers.
In the Nevada-Arizona case, includ-
| ing the Sacramento-Reno case against
the Southern Pacific company, the
railroad commission of Nevada against
the Southern Pacific Company and the
Marcopa County Commercial Club
against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe and other carriers, the decisions
were prepared by Commissioner Frank
lin K. Lane.
In each of them heavy reduction
in class rates are in order, some of the
reductions being as high as 80 Is per
cent. The commission finds that the
existing rates are practically without
predecent or parallel" in the United
States. The average rate per ton per
mile on classes from Sacramento to
Reno is i-6 cents, an unprecedented
/ figure. The class rates between Sac
ramento and Reno are reduced APP
proximately 30 per cent, the rate on
first class freight being lowered from
81. % per hundred pounds to S5 cents.
Similar reductions in the class rates
are made from Sacramento to other
points in Nevada and Utah.
In the case of the railroad commits
sion Of Nevada against the Southern
Pacific Company, the commission con-
demns the existing westbound class
rates from eastern points to Nevada.
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-class
traffic containing 10000 pounds from
Omaha to Reno, the Union and South
ern Pacific lines charge 1858. If the
same carload goes 154 miles further
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
100 pounds.
If the same carload of freight orig
mates at Denver, 500 miles west of
Omaha, the same rates to Reno and
Sacramento apply; and if the freight
originates at Boston, 100 miles east
of Omaha, the rates are the same.
The commission finds that only 25
per cent of the traffic into Reno from
the east originates east of Chicago,
while rs per cent originates between
Chicago and Denver.
Turning to the division of earnings
between carriers on traffic from the
east to Reno, the commission finds
that the lions share accrues to the
Southern Pacific Company.
1t is significant, as indicated in the
opinion, that the lines, east of Ogden,
Utah, receive exactly the same divis-
ions out of the so-caIled water COM
petition" rates to Pacific coast ter
minal points as they receive out of
the vastly higher rates to Nevada
points, the entire difference being ap-
propriated by the Southern Pacific
Company.
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