Show FOOL POOL railroading the running of 0 railways is an occult science people engaged in other pursuits no matter how much freight they may ship generally are not supposed to know anything about the ab matters pertaining to tariffs fm etc and as a rule the public submit without serious ie remonstrance monstrance to any thing which the railway magnates may choose to dictate once in a great time however somo some daring citizen not having a tear fear ot of railway vengeance unearths and drags to light a few facts which abow that the mysteries of railroad business cover many very man many nonsensical and almost criminal arrangements IH the chamber of commerce rooms a tew few evenings since three or tour four of these iconoclastic citizens were enjoying an art united gro growl I 1 against he the avarice and lying propensities of certain n railway companies and against the silence ot of rebate scoop scoopers ers one of the crowlew growl cro allo of the astounding toun ding character of the freight rates prevailing in this region lie llo said 1 I I 1 had ad fifteen tons of coal at a point distant one hundred miles from here and contracted m with ith the rail railway way company to transport it to O ogden oden den the company instead of loading thereal the coal 1 stacked the entire quan on one e car and then charged me tho tile ta tariff on three carloads because they had overloaded the one car the second growler glow ler said sald it costs leas less to eh ft pounds of freight to evanston EvA naton ilian than to ship pounds to the same point if I 1 go to the ogden depot and offer to send two tons of goods to evanston I 1 am charged 2680 butia but if I 1 lie a little and say that the same goods weigh tea ten tons I 1 am only charged 2200 the thi thice va growler said 1 I wanted to bring it a few horses from my nevada neada ranche into O boden ien ana made iniquity jor for rates I 1 found out enough to paralyze y inc roo the tito rate on two tao horses would bo ba 17 73 1 on three on file live somewhere near on a carload containing twenty 0 o on n fo fire carloads containing one hundred 1 10 for the entire five Z carloads therefore it would be che cheaper aperto to bring five carloads carload hart one aud and it would bo be cheaper if 1 were filiip ping ob 0 five o horses lio rees to give each ono one a car by himself than to place all of them in one car and the fourtin fourt growler gr said well I 1 call that fool railroading |