Show RAILROADS IN TROUBLE still continues among the transcontinental railroads the union pacific has baa been ordered by the commissioners ners of the western traffic association t to restore rates to points in montana to what they were some time ago it will diff bey the order and leave the ai sooner than a course which would only benefit the northern trunk lines linee lu fact the as am Rocia socia tion tiou to ie already virtually defunct and it to is only a matter of time when its demise will be officially announced the rho system of pooling which br baa prevailed for some time among railroads Is ie in a transition state and a new plan must soon take its place the pacific mail steamship company has paid annually or many years the sum ot of for the sole purpose of keeping beeping up rates by laud land the california people have endeavored to liberate themselves from the railroad thralldom which enveloped them hem in october 1891 they organized a traffic association for the special purpose of freeing themselves arrangements were made with two lines of clipper ships to transport freight between the atlantic and pacific this was the thin end ot of the wedge abd now the whole fabric of railroad monopoly Is on the point of falling if it has not already fallen to the ground besides the tehuantepec railroad is now an assured fact this ni means e another route to the pacific and it will then be almost impossible to maintain a transcontinental railroad monopoly |