Wellington, Railway Location, 574, 587-80.
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.
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.
Third Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California for the Years Ending Dec. 31, 1880-81-82 (Sacramento: J. D. Young, 1882), 79.
Proceedings of the Trans-Continental Association . . . , 1888, 148-49, CB&Q, 33, 1890, 7.3-8.1, box 1.
Adams to Ames, April 23, April 30, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 28, ser. 2, r. 24
S. G. Reed, A History of the Texas Railroads (Houston: St. Clair Publishing Company, 1941), 195-99.