| Show C P R B R FREIGHTS 1 i til THE s sacramento daily mon vaton suffers no DO opportunity to escape of finding fault with the charges of the central pacific railroad the union pacific railroad rall Eail road made anade a general reduction on freight charges between omaha and Cheye cheyann nife e equal to twenty five per cent of the old rates to take effect on the lith uit this would reduce freight to ten and six tenths cents per mile currency which is seven and a half cents in gold the union says that the rates charged on the central pacific end of the road are just double those now charged between omaha and cheyenne As the union pacific will doubtless conti continue nud nue the same rates on to this city that paper submits to all having at heart the real public interests of california whether it would not be a good deal better for them to encourage the union pacific company in becoming h a rival of the central pacific by push ling ting their road through fromant fro from malt mait salt lake iia via beckworth pass to vallejo that paper augast think aso so juil rull their bonie hope company manifests go so much public salil spirit it as carny ca carry bryas as cheaply as the Ed eastern eastorn stern company Wit hsuch charges for freight it cannot see th lh force of the arguments that the people ortho pacific coast coa t are directly interested iii fil m the central pacific company first reaching sal lake take city washburne of wisconsin made a s idle atle speech aebli some time abdin ago ca agress favorable to the reduction af thres fares on the whallie wh whole Allne line in tl the course pr this speech he stated that it would ao uld cost 00 0 to freight frej frei glit a pi lar aar r load pf af merchandise from san F francisco fial isco to q chicago P ilag at the rates that thit t then ZI ruled luse those raj rat rates were those thosa then charged d by the unton union pacific inne 14 cents per pet ton on per mile or about 40 per r V lir AIR ce centi cenaj the Union nio n says esay s cles rles aels tha nhe rate still charged d uy b y the Central pacific but since his speech the U P R R to meet the demands of the public has come down 25 per cent on its charges the price even with this reduction Is still high enough from the east at least our citizens who have bave them to pay will think so the danion thinks the central pacific one of the home institutions which everybody not a stockholder has a very direct interest in helping to a rival |
