The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1913-06-25
FREIGHT
SAVINGS
Nevada State Railroad Com
mission Orders Lower
IntraState Rates.
VIII Mean Saving ON Cost of All
Commodities Used Within
The State.

BY a mutually understood agree.
ment the Southern Pacific railroad
company and the Nevada state rail-
road commission have figured out a
sweeping reduction In state freight
rates, effective July LIST, which will
surely make Reno a distributing
point of much Importance Granting
as the new schedule of rates will,
a charge for transportation to all
state points much less than is now IN
vogue, 1t will have the effect OF trans
ferring the wholesale business for
merly handled out of Sacramento and
san Francisco 10 Reno almost n its
entirety.
The far reaching effect OF the or
der can be seen when IL is stated
that the or hundred pound rate un-
der the new arr 'ngement on fourth
class merchandise from Reno VIII be
27 cents as compared TO so cents
from Sacramento When 1t il COLI
sidered thai Reno will be operating
on practically the same basis as Sac
ramento and the cost in the matter
OF receiving eastern shipments. lhe
vast advantage that will inure to
Reno's benefit will be manifest.
Fridays Reno Gazette has the fol-
lowing TO say relative to the new or
der:
New low freight rates, effective
July /. win be adopted within Ne
yada on the Southern Pacific lines.
a wide area will be benefited
Reports heard today that the rail-
road commission is about to announ-
ce an order making sweeping and
radical change has been confirmed,
and It Is learned that the action fol-
lows a consultation in Carson City
recently with Southern Pacific oilic-
ials Il is understood that the rail-
road viii not oppose the adoption Of
the new schedules.
Everything for which the Reno
Commercial club contended through
the railroad commission In flght ex-
lending over a period OF 32 months
said to be included in the new rate
hedules. Cases brought by indlYid-
Il members of the club as plain
rs in the federal court Ia which
preliminary injunctions we're grant
ed the railroad company andin which
no decisions we're rendered. may now
be dismissed. II is thought since the
company by putting the new rates
into effect July l, aeoedes to the de-
mands OF the Nevada railroad COM
mission. The railroad commission is
again in session at Carson City to-
day"
Carson information relative to the
changes Is as follows:
The Railroad Commission, on June
IS, 1913. entered an order reducing
intra-state class freight rates on the
Southern Pacific company's system
IN Nevada, the order being based on
reconsideration of Cases 76 and
l39 in which orders had already
been entered, the validity of which
have been pending in the United
States Circuit Court District of Ne
Yada.
The opinion gives a history OF the
two cases under reconsideration and
states that the flnal conclusions have
been reached on the basis of the
testimony submitted In the original
hearings, in the hearings before the
United States Circuit court, and at
the hearing on reconsideration which
was held June 5, 1919. il is fur
ther set forth, that in the judg-
ment of the commission, the rates
heretofore prescribed in cases 76
and l39, need substantial modiiiea-
ton in view of changed conditions,
The order preseribes a new scale
OF class rates to govern the move
ment of freight. and vacate the
former orders of the commission as
soon as the new rates are put into
full force and effect
On the basis of the tonnage NOV