The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1882-05-26
Cheap Frei2htS.


written to the North Star (Ortonville)
by G. Livingston, Of st. Paul, in ref
erence to the voting of bonds in Big
stone County, Mimi, for the J.. F. &
-. X. r., furnishes some excellent
food for reflection to the farmers of
Grant County who have long felt the
grinding weight of the c. NJ. & St
Paul Co. Readers will bear in mind
that the n. Z. and l.. f. & ID. roads
are under the same management.
"Now as to rates, pooling &c, | will COM
pare rates on the Northern Pacific road, as
they now stand, with the rates YOU are now
paying. | wish to particularly call the atten-
ton OF your readers to the fact that III max
ing this comparison, have taken points on
the Northern Pacific road where there is no
competing railroad, where there is not even
water carriage as you have ut Ortonvile to
another railroad, actually and positively no
competition or railroad within a hundred
miles. The Herald states in the edition OF
May Is, the rate from Ortonrllle to Minneap-
oils, 200 miles, by way Of the E NJ 4 st L, is
"a cents per bushel; Valley City to Mime
apolis. 333 miles, by way OF the Northern
Pacific, is is 40 cents per bushel. 1873 miles
further On the N. p. road and Is l-5 cents
per bushel less freight, while from Blanchard
about $50 miles, from st. Paul and where
there Is little competition from the Manito
ba road, the rate is 10 cents per bushel
Blanchard is Oh the Casselton branch OF the
N r. Now take other points on the Mp
road where there is no competition again.
jamestown, which you have all heard OF, 36S
miles from st Paul and Minneapolis, the rate
Is Is cents per bushel, and no competing
roads, no pooling necessary here, and yet
No. cbar. h,l1t al tors
haul OF 36S miles. as against "a cents that
your people are now paying Tor haul OF 200
miles. TO still further west to Bismarck,
469 miles TO st Paul, the n P's rate is l9 As
cents per bushel and no competition what
ever. On the same basis your rate to Chicago
from OrtonviIe would lie but "A cents per
bushel or ten cents less than you pay tor a
haul OF 700 miles to Minneapolis, and Ii
cents less than you are paying Tor the same
haul to Chicago. Why is it that you pay buo
four cents per bushel more from st Paul to
Chicago, five hundred miles iurther, than
YOU pay to st Paul or Minneapolis! Ianswer,
lcompetition. You may talk all YOU like
about poollng OF what value is talk when
YOU have facts like these staring you in the
iace, If the Milwaukee Il st Paul road
was the only road from st. Paul
| to Chicago, do you suppose you would
get your wheat hauled that 500 miles for four
cents per busIIels And yet they told us in
st Paul, when we voted quarter million
dollars bonus to the river road, that another
road would do us no good, as they would
pool everything. and we would get no rednc-
ton of rates. consider the question o
fuel and timber land by the way, Mr.. N. B.
Clark is building very extensive saw mills
TO cost some 500, 600 at Little Falls to supply
these western prairies with cheap lumber
He saves so per cent OF the cost OF the entire
drive by saving his logs at Little Falls aud
the freight back in the lumber from Mime
apo,is. Mr. Clark is the largest pine lane
owner in the northwestl nearly as importan
as grain. The N p rates OH these comnodit
les are as low rs on grain and as the lime
and coal comes by way OF Duluth yol
should I've able to lay it down about as cheal
ly way of the Little Falls road at Ortonvillt
as we get it by way OF the Duluth road at st
Paul Another point regarding grain, Mr.
IOakes. VP, N p road said in the presenc
ot the writer to the superintendent of tin
road in speaking OF the L + 4 D r X Cos
elevators. Our policy is to give no exclusive
privileges to any one, and this holds geoc
PARTICULARLY to elevators. You will see tina
there are 1t least two elevators at each sta
tion owned by ditrereut parties and buit a
once in order to move this years crop--glv
every facility to private parties who wish
ten per cent. per bushei on your grain an
lsupposing yon raise Is bushels to the acre
what does it mean in each l6O acresy Why
lit represents q clear profit OIL wheat alone
&34O every year, while your tax, placing ia
assessed valuation $1,000 for All improve
lauarter section would amount to, at one an
leight-tenths mills on the dollar, II
enormous sum Of one dollar eight
cents, and II your land is assessed at $50
then your share OF the bonds will be ninet
cents 70 pay, 50 you see that all this tai
abont enormous increase of taxes and Il
great burden it will he is simply IS my friei
farmer ~. StuddArd. says, "only gre
game Of bluff" 70 brighten people from vo
ing for the bonds BY parties who have only
temporary interest in your county, and tn
small one, thAt i matters not wheth
, rates are - cents bushel on 200 miles hat
OF whether they are only Is cents.
Consider these matters we'll and vote Q
eordingly. can only add. am IN recei,
OF an oder Of os5. 900 bonus to have q
roaA constructed through another coun
whose principal business men thlEk It won
s. Of % nauch value that they offer TO gus
sntee ths voeisg 0! the bonds. individual
n case ve commence : construction befo
the vote L md. We hall wait to hear fFo
Hs