Albert Wilbur to George Wilbur, April 25, 1883, box 13, f. 268, Albert Wilbur to George Wilbur, Aug. 29, 1881, box 13, f. 271, Albert Wilbur to George Wilbur, Nov. 17, 1881, box 13, f. 271, Wilbur Papers.
Report of the Board of Commissioners of Transportation to the Legislature of the State of California, Dec. 1877 (Sacramento: F. P. Thompson, 1877), 26, 28, 69.
George H. Tinkham, A History of Stockton from Its Organization to the Present Time . . . (San Francisco: Wm. Hinton, 1880), 327-29.
As will be discussed later, these rates are in a sense a fiction, since they were not applied evenly to all shippers. Negotiations produced rebates. Still, the rates are analytically useful because they establish the base point for negotiations, and only very large rebates would change the relationship between one place and another, although they certainly altered the competitive relationship of shippers in the same place. For through rates, see No. 23, Through Freight Tariff Southern Pacific Railroad to Take Effect July 29, 1877 between San Francisco and Stations Named Below. Through rates also were in effect from Stockton, Lathrop, San Jose, and Oakland.
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.