Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-02-13
The Proposed New Railroad.


railroad from Little Falls to the Da~
kota line-has now taken a tangible
form and the articles Of incorporation
of the Little Falls & Dakota R. R. Co..
are already or soon will be published,
Morris being ono Of the principal
points on the proposed route has con-
siderable at stake, indeed the same
can be said Of the whole county, and
we will endeaver to show how we ex>
pect to be benefited. Admitting to
begin with, that Little Falls will be a
better market than Mlnneapolis,-it
being nearer lake port, and having. a
magnificent water power, are grounds
sufficient for the assertion; We have a
ground work on which to base our
calculations. Wheat last Saturday in
Minneapolis was quoted at 78 cents for
No. l., at Little Falls 20 and at Morris
81. We are Informed, by good author
ity, that local competition has raised
the price of wheat at Little Falls to 80
cents, and with few -four mills, wheat
at the latter point would be worth
at least five cents per bushel more
than at Minneapolis, this would make
wheat eighty~three cents at Little
Falls, and even charging the same for
transportation as are charged on the
St. P. & p, we will be the gamers.
1t costs, freight, commissions and
elevator charges included, seventeen
cents per bushel for wheat from Nor.
ris to Minneapolis, on a car load OF
$50 bushels this amounts to $3.50,
whereas the same amount of wheat
could be sent to Little Falls for
$3215, a saving to US of $27.35, or
nearly eight cents per bushel. We
this season have shipped from this
point nearly 100000 bushels of-wheat,
and had we the proposed line, would
have been $4,000 the gamers.
What is true of wheat will apply
also to other produce, and the reduo'
tion in freight will apply both ways
IF we can save eight dollars on a hun
dred bushels Of wheat, we can also
save about ten per cent. on merchau'
disc, fuel, lumber, etc. etc., so if the
saving or gain on wheat alone, viii
amount on 100000 bushels to 40 o,
so thousand dollars, we can surely
calculate that the advance in the value
| of property, the reduction in prices O.
lumber. fuel aud every description o.
merchandise, fa IN machinery etc. vii
swell the amount to over one hundred
thousand dollars. These f cures may
appear unreasonable and fictitious, but
when we consider the immense amount
of lumber required in this and adjoin'
ing counties for building purposes alone
the figures appear small. The major
ity of the buildings on the newly
opened farms in this country are but
temporary structures and supposing on
each of the 1904 quarter sections
of land in this county, two hundred
dollars is expended for lumber, and on
that amount there is saving of ten
per cent. and we find the amount saved
Is on this low estimate, nearly fifty
thousand dollars. The same rule will
apply to other articles, if each head o.
a family in this county can save ter
per cent. on the amount expended fol
farm machinery, groceries, clothing
etc., and allowing that there are sever
hundred men in the county who spent
for the above articles On an averag.
Of five hundred dollars year, and W
find the annual saving would be abou
$35 900 on the amount expended fo
necessities which must be purchase,
and makes a total Of $135,Oc0 saves
IN ono voar