Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-26 | Page 4 | Rate Justic for Nevada

one zone and Reno for the other. reduction In class rates from ho eastern and western points Is mad', the reduction ranging from 10 to 5? per cent The rates from eastn points to Winnemucca are appreclab! lower than they are to Reno, a;i the reduction applies to points as far east as Detroit. After December 1st. Winnemucca merchants will not t? shut out of the eastern markets t they havp been and will be no loop: at the mercy of the San Franclsw Jobbers. further delay. The latest hearing iu Washington was attended bv the numbers num-bers of the Nevada Railroad com mission. mis-sion. Messrs. Bartine. Sliaug.hnessy and Thurtell, who presented the case of this state In miHi an able and con vincing manner that the national coin-mission coin-mission decided against the railroads and the California jobbers and tho lower class rates must go into effect ou December 1. Though persistently referred to In the newspapers as the Reno rate case, the lower rates which are to become effective in a few weeks affect the entire en-tire state of Nevada. By the decision the state is divide. I into an eastern and western zone, Winnemucca being named as the terminal rate point for j RATE JUSTICE FOR NEVADA. Winnemucca Star: The Interstate Commerce commission Saturday do. elded that the railroads mint put Into In-to effect on December 1 the lower class rates to Nevada points. In accordance ac-cordance with the order made several months ago. The railroads secured two postponements of the date on which the lower rates were to become effective and have been fighting for