“Then he made me the proposition that there be no regular rates established, but to ship to the smelter for one month and then bring my returns and he would take out what he might think a recompense for pulling these values over the road. For cheek as a business proposition I think this stands pre-eminent. Of course it was rejected, and I was given rates as follows: Anderson, $71; Redding, $73 per car.” (San Francisco Examiner, May 8, 1893.)
[384] United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 3319-20, testimony J. C. Stubbs.
[385] Proceedings of the Transcontinental Railway Association, 1885, pp. 17-18.
[386] Letter to the State Railroad Commission, February 20, 1883.
[387] San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 1879. It appears that the fare from San Francisco to Sacramento by steamer had been $5 in pre-railroad days. When the California Pacific commenced operations in 1869, the fare fell to $4, and when the Western Pacific was opened, a $3 rate was put in. As far back as the fifties, rates were still higher. (A. A. Cohen, Letter to the State Railroad Commission, 1883.)
[388] Opinions and Orders of the Railroad Commission of California, 1916, Vol. 10, p. 354 ff.
[389] Declaration of Principles of the Anti-Monopoly Party of Tulare County (Mussell Slough Delta, February 24, 1882).
[390] San Francisco Chronicle, August 27, 1879.
[391] Stockton Independent, March 10, 1876.
[392] San Bernardino Board of Trade v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad Company, 3 I. C. C. R. 138 (1890). The Circuit Court for the Southern District of California refused to enforce the decree of the Interstate Commerce Commission in this case. (Interstate Commerce Commission v. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad Company, 50 Fed. 295 [1892].)