Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-12-12

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shippers by this route are Murphy, Neel
& Co.. Klien, Schmidt & Bros, Kinna d
Jack and G. s. Vawter & Co. The ship
men:s OF these firms amount to about s.
600 tons. A rate Of 81 per hundred from
season by the Utah Northern Missouri
river transportation companies cannot
compete with that rate when they are
Obliged to pay eighty cents from Chicago
| to Bismarck via the Northern Pacific.
This leaves them only twenty cents per
hundred for carrying treig ght 1000 miles
by rive! toBentOn and 14O miles overland
to Helena 1t is claimed by the Northern
Pacific, however. that low rates was offered
to these shippers and thatthe Utah North.
ern cannot carry the freight in question
for the figures they offer and come out
whole. However this may be, the result
has been decrease in quantity of freight
carried up the river. The amount of
PRIVATE MONTANA FREIGHT
shipped from Bismarck this season is as
follows: Coulson line 2, 500 900 pounds;
Baker line, 3,l40,000 pounds; Benton line,
$3.50, 600 pounds, an aggregate of ,35O, 600
pounds Amount of private freight ship
ped by river from below to same destina-
Baker line, 100000 pounds; Benton line,
2, 1OO.OOO pounds; Peck and Kountz lines,
about 2,2O0, ,OGO making grand total of
| IL .S9O, 900 pounds OF private freight ship
ped to points in Montana this season,
against nearly 10000 900 pounds last year
| These figures do not include the govern
ment freight which the Coulson line has
handled this season, amounting to about
| 2O,OOOWO pounds. This is a good
| showing but the loss of these Helena ship
| pers is quite in item Probably a COM
promise will be accomplished next year
whereby these shippers will return to this
route. The Northern Pacific cannot at
ford to allow steamboats, to go to Sioux
City and YaL kton to get their freight, for
want OF rates.
| HEAVY INDIVIDUAL SHIPPERS
Among the heaviest shippers at this
point are j. w. Raymond Il 20. and Nc
Lean s. Winston. The latter have hand
led nearly 100000 pounds of government
freight this season from this city j. w.
Raymond & Go. have shipped nearly t.
amount of it to Fanshawe e. Co, of Fort
Meade. These two firms are doing {:
larger wholesale and retail grocery and
general supply business than any other
two northwest of St. Paul! They have
averaged over $500 per day, Sundays in
cluded, for the pats, forty days, and their
sales for the year, beginning Jan. 1st,
amount to nearly half million. These
figures are enormous when one takes into
consideration that there arc no farmers
10 speak of in the country
THF; U. s. EXPRESS OFFICE
at this city does more business than any
other Office on the line of the n. p. Its
receipts amount to nearly $500 per
i month. -.
THE n. W. TELEGRAPH OFFICE
is bv all odds the largest on the line. The
receipts and business OF the office exceed
that 0t any other office in the northwest
1 There is but one office III the state of
Minnesota outside of ST. Paul and Mime
apolis that does more. The cause of this
in II great measure is the immense freight
ing interests and the great telegraphic
centre which Bismarck has become.
There are now over two thousand miles
OF government wire centering at the Sig
nal Office in this city, making the gov
ernment office one OF the most important
in the country. ..
DEATH OF CHAs. X. PECK.
Chas. X. Peck, president of the North
ern Transportation company, keOkuk,
Iowa. died at the Grand Pacific Hotel ID
this city at Il quarter past one O'Clock yes.
terday afternoon. Mr.. Peck arrived in
this city from St. Louis on the morning of
Thanksgiving day, and was then laboriny
under a seve.e attack OF pneumonia. DR.
McVickar was called in and prescribed
for the sufferer, but on Friday morning,
seeing tina, the disease had taken fatal
hold Uf his patient, telegraphed Mrs. Peck,
1T Rochester, N. y, whittier the lady had
conducted her son to college, and also for
wartled dispatch to Mr.. Peck IS daughter,
at the family residence in Keokuk. Both
wife and daughter hastily responded to
the summons. the latter arriving at the
bedside of her father Oh Sunday morning,
and the former on tue fOranOOntoilowing,
where they remained in constant lttcn-
danc,. until his death. Mr.. Peck was born
in Syracuse N. Y, in 1881, and at the age
OF twenty years graduated at the head of
his class in Union College, Schenectady.
The greater part OF the ten years follow
ing his graduation was devoted to various
mercantile pursuits ut different points in
his native State. In 1864 he moved to
Keokuk, accompanied by his stamily, COM
! posed of wife, son and daughter, and i'm
metl,ately entered into contract with the
government for the forwarding of Indian
and army supplies to various stations in
the West He shortly atterward organ
lied the Northern transportation cou-
pany, and has been recognized as its exc
cutive head up to the present time. He
is reported to leave q large estate, and,
what is still better, an untarnished rcpu.
! tation. The remains will be taken TO
Keokuk this afternoon for intcrment.-
4 Cdicago Times 3rd.
WELL KNOWN ON THE MISSOURI
! The death Of Col. &. K. breaks the last
link Of the once great tirm Of Durfce s.
Peck, contractors and owners OF the new
!! transportation steamers ON the Missouri
1 river nn,s. 90 llad the Peck line Gnl Peck