No. 7, Central Pacific Railroad, Special Freight Tariff on Grain in Carloads to the General Markets, Feb. 1, 1876. I am calculating a carload at 10 tons per car, which was the designated weight for a carload on the Central Pacific. Central Pacific Local Freight Tariff (Western & Oregon Divisions), Local Classification. River Rates to San Francisco, untitled document, State Railroad Commission, California State Archives, Sacramento. Albert Wilbur to George Wilbur, Nov. 17, 1881, box 13, f. 271, Wilbur Papers.
No. 7, Central Pacific Railroad, Special Freight Tariff . . . Feb. 1, 1876.
Report of the Board of Commissioners. . . 1877, 28, 67, 69.
Agents were instructed not to show the tariff book to customers so that they could not compare rates.
A visualization created by Peter Shannon, "Seeing Space in Terms of Track Length and Cost of Shipping," illustrates how these freight rates distorted space at the Spatial History Project website, Stanford Univ.
Report of Commissioner Foote, Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California for the Year ending Dec. 31, 1883 (Sacramento: James J. Ayers, 1884), 142-43.
A. N. Towne to CPH, Feb. 19, 1875, E. P. Vining to Sidney Dillon, Jan. 29, 1875, enclosed with preceding. See also J. C. Stubbs to Towne, Feb. 13, 1875, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 7. E. P. Vining to J. C. Stubbs, Feb. 19, 1875, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 7.