White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-30

from that territory are not particular
ly involved in these decisions, mas
much as they generally are controll-
ed by ocean transportation to the Pa
cifc coast.
"It may be asked why the schedule
of rates suggested by the commission
as reasonable should not be ordered
in. The answer is that carriers
should be permitted insofar as posi-
BILE to adjust their own tariffs and
that it seems probable that in COM
plianee with this order carriers must
establish rates in substantial accord
with those suggested by us. 1t
should be ever borne in mind that the
acute complaint in this case is the
discrimination and not the
able rate. Obedience to this order
will doubtless result in some rates
from the east which are higher and in
others which are lower than those
suggested by the commission since
we did not then feel at liberty, as the
~complainants requested to make the
Spokane rate depend upon the coast
rate. But ii Is likely that the re-
'sulting schedule will be more satisfac
tory to the complainants and no more
b~urdensome upon the defendants. II
the carriers establish under this dis
position of the case rates to Spokane
which are excessive, a further order
can be made in a this proceeding re-
ducing them to a proper basis"
In an elaborate discussion of the
long and short haul provision in the
so-called Reno case and the Phoenix
Arizona, case, Commissioner Lane,
who prepared the opinions in these
cases for the commission, asserts that
lit must be afirmatively shown by
the carriers seeking exceptions to the
long and short haul provisions that
an injustice will not be done to inter-
mediate points by allowing lower
rates to the more distant points
THE intentment of the amended
laws" says Commissioners Lane, lis
to make its prohibition of the higher
rate for the shorter haul a rule of
well-nigh universal application from
which this commission may deyiate
only in special cases and then to meet
transportation circumstances which
are beyond the carriers control"
1t is held that lin the light of his
tory 1t Is not to be gainsaid that
transcontinental lines must give con-
s~ideration to sea competition" 1t
a held also, however, that the
carriers herein involved have not
shown hat undue discrimination was
not effected by their rate adjust
ment between points in Nevada and
points in California nor have they
established the rates to the coast
cities, If extended by them from east
cin poihlS oulsiuc lhS boht VI WaLci
influence. are not fully compen-
satory."
The transcontinental carriers,
therefore, are ordered to readjust
their present rates by October 10 next
from eastern territories to inter-
mediate points as compared with the
rates from Nevada points to the Pa
cific coast. This will make a re-
duction of rates to Reno and Nevada
common points from the east of APP
proximately 33 1-3 per cent.
In the curse of the opinion Com
missioner Lane says:
I'VE desire to be extremely con-
servative in this first application of
the new law and to require an ad-
iustment of rates hat will be safely
within the zone of our discretion.
For this reason we have decided that
the transcontinental carriers serving
Reno and other points upon the main
line of the Central Pacific shall make
no higher charges upon any article
carrying a commodity rate than is
contemporaneously in effect from
Missouri river points such as Omaha
and Kansas City to coast terminal
points. This principle we shall also
expect to be applied on commodity
rates to all main line intermediate
points in Nevada and California.
Some of the petitions under the
fourth section are made by carriers
reaching California terminals through
southern Nevada and Arizona. These
applications for relief are denied in
sofar as they involve the imposition
of higher rates upon intermediate
points than are applied on commod-