Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-11-03
MINNEAPOLIS WRATHY AT ST. PAUL
AND DULUTH.

1t may be too far removed from this
point t6 be any particular business of
ours, but where the Haunting rag of
impudepce is constantly being thrown
out by Minneapolis, of the many Won
ders it will perform, by constructing
the Minneapolis, Sault st. Mary & At
lantic road, to the south end of Lake
Superior, we will hit the question a
passing thump, to hear the beauties
within it jingle. AS was announced
by its President, w. ID. Washburn,
this road is to be built because he was
unable to secure lowering of freights
from the various roads to carry the
wheat of the Millers' Association to
its mills and the flour from them, so
as to succeed in competing with water
transportation, by way of Duluth, to
the eastern markets. He had another
object in this, which he has often ex-
pressed, being to prevent competing
wheat market at Duluth, in the inter-
est of eastern millers thereby raising
the price of wheat to be paid to the
farmers, and in this way compelling
the Association to raise it's price. In
this way, and for this reason, sympa-
thy was gained among the capitalists,
principally in Minneapolis, to contem-
plate the building of this road, which
was in fact the only resort to save the
Associations mills from going to de-
cay, thereby saving Minneapolis.
There were other reasons than these,
and among them was a design to cut
the throat of Duluth, and to lop off a
wing or two from st. Paul, which
neither has particularly noticed. If
the road is built to the $780," Mime
apolis can patronize the lake transport,
striking it at the $780," and save the
travel around by Duluth through lake
Superior, it being believed that freights
can be carried to the 800" by rail-
road direct, as cheap as they can go to
Duluth, and around there by lake, and
so avoid their natural enemy, that
competing market. Another advan-
tage to be gained by this route is, that
boats can get to the $500 earlier in
the Spring, and can run later in the
fall, than around through Lake Supe-
rior to Duluth, and save considerable
lake insurance. Besides this, that
larger boats can safely go to the $500"
than can get through the canal into
Lake Superior, and they can afford to
carry freights cheaper than the smaller
ones going by lake to Duluth. And
again, that they can take their flour,
and wheat if they desire, to the $500"
in winter as cheaply as they can to
Duluth, each route being by rail, and
to cut the matter short, have the west
ern terminus of the eastern boat line
at Minneapolis instead of having it at
Duluth. The intention of this is to
not only cut off Duluth's steamboat
trade, but to lop off as much as posi-
BILE of the trade which st. Paul receives
from the way of Duluth.
Minneapolis also believes it can in
duce the eastern millers to receive
their wheat at the $780," and to store
it there in elevators during the winter,
or send it east over Canadian roads, in
the place of storing at Duluth, and in
this way make it to the interest of
eastern millers to patronize their road
and avoid Duluth and Lake Superior
both. That the Millers' Association
might have bait of this kind to offer
the eastern millers, they have pur-
chased the elevator systems along the
roads in Minnesota, to divide up the
wheat with as it comes in when navi-
CATION is open, and take it all during
the time it is closed. If this could be
made to work, the eastern millers
would purchase of the Millers' Associ-
alton, and do away with any competi-
ton from the east in this state, as it is
the great desire of the Association to
do. The Association make this appeal
to eastern millers, that if they do not
arrange to combine their interests,
the course Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Louis are pursuing will event.
ually injure and divide each of their
businesses in obtaining wheat, and
both will be greatly crippled. And
this is why the Minneapolis Journal
does not care if the road is constructed
from Fargo around it to Chicago, Mil
waukee, and st. Louis, and in fact it
is just what the Association desire, to
drive the millers east into their
scheme; the Association well know
ing eastern mills could not get their
wheat from Lake Michigan cities as
cheaply as from the $780," and what
would ge to st. Louis they both would
lose.
Now it remains to be seen what st.
Paul and Duluth will do, to hold the
balance of power, when neither one
own foot of railroad to or from their
limits.
A MINNESOTA FARM.
We have known for long time,
L