The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-02-07
THE RECENT INTERSTATE
COMMERCE DECISION
Full Text OF the Findings Made
In the Complaint Against Local
Railway Company

From the Traffic World of January 81
Case No. $3.50.
Richmond-E Eureka Mining Com
pany VS.. Eureka-N Nevada Railway
ct al.
Submitted December %, 1913. De-
cided January IL, 1914.
l. Rate of $2.35 per net ton on ore
of a value not in excess of SIS per
ton from Eureka, Nevada. to Pail
SADIE, Nevada, when destined to
Midvale, Utah, not found unrea-
sonable, and the establishment of
joint through rates from Eureka
to Midvale not found justified upon
the facts of record.
The line between Eureka and
Ruby Hill, Nevada, having been
partially destroyed and the duty
of the owner to restore and oper-
ate the same, upon the facts of
record, not being a question for
determination by this Commission,
the establishment of through rates
from Ruby Hill to Midvale not
considered. Complaint dismissed.
Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro for
complainant.
McNair & Stokes for Nevada
Transportation Company.
George H. Smith and H. A. Scan-
drett for Southern Pacific Company
and Oregon Short Line Railroad Co.
Report OF the Commission
Commissioner:
The complaintin this case, brought
by a corporation owning mines To-
Gated near Ruby Hill, Eureka County,
Nevada, seeks primarily the re-estab-
lishment of the through rate form
in effect on ore from Ruby Hill
and Eureka, Nevada, to Midvale,
The establishment of through
inbound rates on various other COM
modities is also asked, but it was
agreed by the parties that for the
purpose of this case only the rate on
ore of a value not greater than SO
per ton need be considered.
The Eureka-Nevada Railway, a
gauge line, runs south from
Palisade, Nevada, a point on the
Pacific, 256 miles west of
Ogden, Utah, to Eureka, a distance
of 81 miles, and has a partially de-
stroyed branch about four miles in
from Eureka south to Ruby
Hill. Midvale is 10 miles south of
Salt Lake City, Utah. and AZ miles
south of Ogden. The distance from
to Midvale via the Eureka
Nevada Railway in connection with
the Southern Pacific to Ogden and
the Oregon Short Line beyond is APP
proximately 3S7 miles.
No through rates on any commod-
tiles are published to or from points
on the Eureka-Nevada Railway.
The local rates on ore are on a per
ton mile basis, the lowest being 2.S
cents on a value not to exceed SIS
per ton, carload minimum 40, 900
pounds. On this basis the rate from
Eureka to Palisade is $2.35 per ton.
The rate of the Southern Pacific
from Palisade to Midvale is $685.,
and in addition there is a dumping
charge at the former place of rs cents
per ton. making through charge, Eu-
reka to Midvale, $685. per ton.
For some time prior to 1905 the
line from Palisade to Eureka was
owned by the Eureka & Palisade
Railway Company and operated for
passenger traffic only, but between
that year and March, 1910, a consid-
amount of ore, constituting,
in fact, the chief tonnage of the road,
was handled to Midvale, Utah, from
Hill, to which latter point the
inc had been extended following
agreements with the complainant.
This traffic was transferred to the
Pacific through ore dumps,
and the rate applicable thereon was
At first So. rs. and later 1926 per ton.
Upon the increase indicated the divi-
sion of the Eureka & Palisade was
increased from So cents to $1.35 per
ton.