Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-11

you have appreciated enough to give them
your attention, and thus secure them rights
which has added greatly to their prosperity;
and, now, as business men, we wish you to
consider our wants and aid us, that the bust
ness between us may be greatly increased. We
are some thirty miles distant from you. We
write letter to st. Paul, and one to Milwau-
kee at the same time, distance 800 miles, and
we receive reply from the latter place pre-
cisely at the same time as we do from SyOur
city; this is also the case with freight and ex-
press goods. Orders can be sent to Milwaukee
or Chicago, and we can have the goods in as
short time as ordered from st. Paul. we
have also been greatly Inconvenience by the
train not arriving on schedule time, it being
for the past three months from half an hour to
one hour and a half late. We, the under
signed business men and citizens of River
Falls, ask your attention to these matters, that
the business between us may be promptly exc
cuted and harmony exist.
This was followed by the presentation
of document from Belle PLANE, read
ing as follows:
To the officers of the st. Paul & Sioux city
division of the Chicago, st. Paul & Oman a
railroad company:
The undersigned business men, residing at
Belle Plane, Scott county, Minnesota, respect
fully represent to the above named company,
that for a long series of years they have been
allowed by the said railroad company, to pile
wood at the station of said company ut Belle
Paine aforesaid, contiguous to the railroad track,
for the purpose of loading the same upon the
cars of said company for shipment on the line
of said railroad, east and west. That the I'M
dersigned have made numerous contracts with
divers persons for the delivery of wood at said
station for shipment, and that they have made
contracts with divers persons to ship said wood
to them at different points on the line of said
road and its branches, west; and also to per-
sons in St. Paul, and now have a large quanti-
ty delivered near the track of said road to so
ship.
That on the list day of January, 1881, the
| undersigned were notified by the agent of said
company at BellesPlane, to Immediately re-
| move from the railroad limits all the wood
| now piled there, and from and after that date
| not to pile wood or ties within the railroad
limits of the station at Bale Plaine, aforesaid.
That all the space within said limits was ac-
corded to one Michael Gates, of Belle Plaine,
for the purpose of piling and delivering wood
and ties for said company, and that he had the
exclusive right to use the same.
The undersigned further represent that if the
said arbitrary order is continued in force it
will work great injury and expense to the I'M
dersigned, who have been liberal patrons of
said road, as well as to those destitute located
upon the line of said road, who are depending
upon the wood contracted to be shipped from
this place during the present winter, for the
| reason that the Inconvenience of loading the
same upon cars will increase the price to the
consumer.
We represent that the said order is an unjust
| discrimination against the right of majority
of the citizens Of Belle PLANE, and,the settlers
along the line of said road, that the effectiis to
create monopoly in the wood business at this
place. And we further represent that hereto
fore the said company have given to each of
the business men their proportionate share of
the wood and tie buying, and we fully expect
ed that that would be the policy of the COM
pany this season, and their refusing so to dolls
an act of injustice to each of us, and as we
stated before, creates monopoly in that bust
ness at this place.
And we respectfully request that the said
order be rescinded and equal rights accorded to
all. All of which is respectfully submitted
C. M. Hooper, John Y. Hooper,
A. Manley, j. Callahan,
Peter Henry, w. H. Weibeler,
j. Schlz Henry Thevot
Belle Plane, Mimi, Jan. 4, 1881.
Both communications were referred TO
the committee on Mercantile Affairs, D..
r. Noyes, chairman.
PROPOSED LEGISLATION.
James Smith, Jr., from the committee
on legislation, reported the proposed bills
relative to Ramsey county, the same be-
ing the ones reported in Sundays GLOBE
as acted upon by the city council A
motion to omit the new court house was
made, but the whole matter finally went
over one week.
IMPROVING THE RIVER.
Mr.. McClung, from the river improve
ment committee, submitted the following
memorial to Congress:
To sthe Senator's and Representatives of the
United States in Congress assembled:
The people of the State of Minnesota are
the markets of the world by the high
freights which consume the value OF their
products in transportion. The people of the
entire valley of the Mississippi are in the
same condition. The difference in the cost of
transportation by rail and water, the unim-
proved and unavailable condition of the
Mississippi river are the cause of this exclu-
sion.
Congress has never vet been able to rise to
a realizing sense of the great importance of
this river to the interests of commerce, and to
the greatness and glory of the entire country.
Congress has therefore lavished its bountes
upon rivers and harbors outside of the Mis-
sissippi river valley to the amount of $780,
100000, while the entire valley of the
Mississippi has grudgingly been allowed but
81, 100000.
Railroads and all works of public improve
ment have received in lands and money over
$500, 100000, and a single railroad SlU0, 000,-
000-the Mississippi river and tributaries ST.
OOO,O 600
And yet, while the entire United States has
produced about $4,000, 900 bushels of wheat
and Is, 000, 900, 900 bushels of corn, the Missis-
sippi valley has furnished 300, 000,00,, or two
thirds of the wheat, and 200, 600, 900, or four
fifths of the corn.
Estimating that these cereals could be car
ried by water to the seaboard for even five cents
per bushel lower freight than by rail, and this
is very moderate estImate-less than half the
estimate of the best informed friends of river
improvement-the amount saved annually in
freights on these two articles alone would be
S75, 010, 000-ten times as much annually as the
entire sum which Congress hls expended to
make this river and its tributaries available.
As like amount is lost on every article we
buy and import, s150,000,0G0 per year is low
estimate of the money lost every year by the
people of the valley of the Mississippi, be-
cause Congress refuses to give more
than a beggarly pittanee 10 improve
the river. We are virtually taxed
$3.50, 100000 in the name of economy every
year, while one-tsnth of this sum expended at