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Show I TESTIMONY ENDS IN NEVADA RATE CASE RKNO. New, March SI. Shortly after noon today. Special Examiner Lyon closed the hearing for taking testimony In tho case of the- Nevada railroad commission against the Southern Paclilc company and the Nevada & California railway. The testimony offered by the plaintiffs supported their contention that the merchants mer-chants of Nevada were being charged rates in excess of the sale charged the so-called California terminal cities, such rates to Nevada points under the service rendered being discriminatory and unfair, un-fair, that goods delivered at Reno direct from the eastern point of origin were charged the same rate as shipments that moved through to the coast and then distributed dis-tributed from those polntR to the interior, that no necessity exlstt-d for hauling shipments ship-ments over the heavy and expensive mountain grades and then returning them to Reno. In this sense the plaintiffs showed that the railroad could not sustain sus-tain such a scheme of rates as being lawful. |