Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-12-09
vowardly act TO try 10 hide nehnl any woman $ skirt when they
are a S narrow as those worn nowadays.

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are a narrow as those worn nowadays.
Here is a little matter, according to the Commonwealth, that
the State Railroad Commission can take a hand in if it is Off
ci.lly brought to their attention. That paper practically comes
out Tor a home market for home products. but says railroad rates
make shipments of grain and potatoes from Elko county to
Reno prohibitive. The Commonwealth says. What is the rem
edyg The farmers in Starr valley have raised considerable bar
ley this year. They are unable to sell it near home at any price
Barley is bringing $22 a ton at the mills at Carson valley and
there is a demand for it-but the railroads want about SIS a ton
for hauling the barley from the eastern part of the state to the
western. Nebraska and Kansas can ship grain to Reno, but the
farmers Of eastern Nevada cannot. The freight on ten sacks Of
seed wheat from Elko to Carson City was $3.50. There are sew
eral corloads of potatoes in Starr valley for sale and several mer-
chants in Reno want good potatoes, but it will cost what the po-
tatoes are worth to ship them -
Letson Ballet, superintendent and general manager Of the
Buckeye Belmont Mining company of Tonopah, is out in a long
statement in the Tonopah Miner telling how the Observation-Disclosures
Power company, furnishing power in Southern Nevada that is made
at Bishop Creek, California, charges mining and milling plants
on this side of the line from 3 to 8 cents per kilowatt hour, with a
reduction to larger consumers, while to California consumers, as
far south assam Bernardino county, it furnishes power from one
half a cent to 3 cents a kiiowatt hour. Mr.. Ballet proposes to
bring the matter before the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Every Democrat interested in currency reform should read the
mastery speech of Glass in defence of his bill. He routed the OPP
position at every point. When he stripped the mask from the
banking interests and showed that they dare not fight the measure
on it's actual merits, but were carefully avoiding an open attack
on Section 70, which prevents gambling with the peoples money
in Wall street, he showed that this va the real objection they
had to the bill and were trying to ambush their attack. His
speech was like the charge of the Scotch Greys at Waterloo.
The Sparks Tribune calls down in good shape those Nevada
papers that are jumping on to Senators Newlands and Pittman
for tavoring the 1Ietch IIecthy project in the United States SEN
ate, and tells them in as many words that in assaiing the senators
and the San Francisco water proect they are fighting the battle
OF the sentimentahsts of the east against the materialists of the
west. More than that; in fighting such propositions they are
upholding corporation rule against municipal, for the Hetch Hetchv
Is a municipal proposition, pare and simple.
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The California Gas company, operating gas plants in several
parts of the Golden State, has appeared before the California Rail
Dad commission and untar aSEad tba+ - h, ,nool l. i
crease Its rates. By the proposed reduction consumers will be fur
nished the first thousand feet of gas at $3.50. 81. 80 for the second
and S on down to 70 cents. When will some of our state public
utility corporations do likewise.
England soon recOnsidered it's intention of not beino ronre
sented at the Panama-Pacific Exposition when the Br;tishers say
Germany getting ready for a big display. Their main object in lire
now is to Outshine their German rival. With these two nations in
competition there is no question about the result, two of the nos
stupendous displays of the whole exposition.
There is only one thing that can be said against the ucces
of the IIetch Hetchy proposition. Hearst was for it. Now hon
claim all the honor.