You want to get us under your ruinous short-haul rate between Bonneville and San Francisco, and
return. Think of it! Here's a load of stuff for
Bonneville that can't stop at Bonneville, where it
is consigned, but has got to go up to San
Francisco first by way of Bonneville, at forty cents
per ton, and then be reshipped from San
Francisco back to Bonneville again at fifty-one
cents per ton, the short-haul rate. And we have to
pay it all or go without.
Frank Norris,
The Octopus
According to the rancher, Harran Derrick, how is
the railroad cheating him?
0 The railroad is sending goods past the
destination and back again so that it can
charge Derrick more money for shipping.
The railroad is sending goods to the wrong
destination so that Derrick will have to go to
San Francisco to get them.
10
The railroad is raising the shipping rate so
that Derrick will have to pay more than the
price he was originally quoted.
DONE