The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-02-08

rate companies are available TOT coHluoh use "heho'SA '"n N"
use will promote the moveme of traffic"
That paragraph sounds rather well, but what it mean may be subject
TO Interpretation If not construction. 1t is from the chapter o n "Captai
Expenditures" in Director-GeneralM cAdoos Forthcoming report ito the Pr@t
granted that Mr.. McAdoo and many other high-ups sin the railroad admins
tration ar viewing u railroad situation through Eastern glasses. They
know there is such a State as Nevada. but Nevada is made to look narrow
O railroad "a anyway. Probably it is safe to assume lat MI. McAooo
is enurelv dependent his subordinates for information regarding rail
road matters in this State. Mr.. Holden, we understands mex to III highest
up, and just below him is MI. Sproule, regional director fol the admnistra-
tin in this territory.
AS nearly everybody knows, MI. sproule "a fol a long time president of
the Southern Pacific company. What the Southern Pacific tried to do to
hinder the building Of the Western Pacific through Wmnemucca is family
indicated in a paragraph in Ten Years Ago Today o the opposite page.
What Mr.. Sproule, as regional director, is doing to the Western Pacific today
is glarngy illustrated by the fact that four through train crew between
Gerlach and Eko nave been laid off within the past month, and remaining
crews are working about half time This means a reduction Of the Winnie
mucca payroll amounting to several thousand dollars a month.
Perhaps SOL explanation of this sudden shrinkage in volume of business
awarded to the Western Pacific will be coming up soon; but railroad men
that is, the workers believe it to be a deliberate attempt to u the West
IN Pacific out of business before the railroads go back to their private own
ership-and the regional director to his job. Scott, general manager Of n
Southern Pacific before, and Dwyer, general manager now, are also linked in
some way into the government railroad administration. Mr.. Levey, the we'll
liked and energetic president of the Western Pacific, is "out of it,"
AS a local matter of fact, traffic o. the Western Pacific is weIlngh ss-
pended. A citizen of winnemucca mi MOI buy a Western Pacific ticket to
a point between here and Carlin. Train No. II has n o scheduled stops, either
regular or flag. Freight may not be shipped from here to Orovie oe the
Western Pacific orovine may not ship oranges to Salt Lake City owe the
direct route; they must go south to Sacramento and come overt the Southern
Pacific. Many other incidents might be mentioned if space permitted. They
will be mentioned later by The Silver State.
The point for immediate presentation is this: A considerable number of
railroad mn who ae good citizens of this town, are suffering in revenue.
Winnemucca. like other towns. might not object very seriously to railroad
manipulation did it not directly affect the town payroll But this community
is interested in a financial way, and it is entirely probable that were the
proper steps taken to inform the United States railroad administration of the
Southern Pacific dominance and manipulation in this territory, something OF a
stop might be put 20 it. Our Senators and Representative should at least
have the circumstances clearly presented to them-and the local Business
Mems Association should inject every ounce of weight it possesses into the
Southern Pacific is OF a corporation to be trihed with when the grabbing
fever attacks it.