The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-07-03
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& The building Of railroads into tie
western states and territories ii rapidly
driving the old time bull and mule out
fits out Of existence and causing at the
same time q feeling Of dismay in the.
heart Of the true frontiersman, to whom
the crack Of the bull whips and stento-
rian tones Of the bull -whacker and mule
skinner are music sweet to hear, because
the points to and from which freight is
hauled are always lively and hard times
never known. Many towns on the Mis-
souri,, Platte, Smoky Hill and Arkansas
iriyers have been virtually built and sus-
tained to q great extent BY the old time
ffeighters, who are as q class joyial, gen
.erous and extrayagant to q fault, who
spend their rnings with d lavish hand
In the northwest particularly is this fact
noticeable, and when we note all that
the freight business has done for Chey-
enne m Sidney and Pierre, now right
att the present time, before 1t is too.
Ilatc, the Importance Of doing all In our.
power to make NIedora a permanent
starting point for Black Hills freight
presents itself. It can only be for a
com,lparat com lively short time that any Of the
present starting points for Black Hills
freight can reap tile harvest from this
industry, because in the near future no
less than four railroads will be building
towards that Eden Of America, therefore
the present time is the season for ex-5
tending every effort and using cYcry In.
flnence with the railroad company, tile!
shippers and the freighters to have this
point designated as the only one on this
line to which Black Hills freight: can be
consigned. We have such natural ;a(l-
yantages as cannot be Overlooked either
by tile railroad officials or freighters, the
road is undoubtedly the best ever traaly-,:
.eled over by freight teams, better time is
made. N loaded Oh empty than on the Pierre,
Toad, the distanc is shorter than that.
4 route, q, instead of travelling over nearly
200 miles Of gumbo belt this route only
crosses the belt . distance OF s3 miles.
With these advantages In onr favor the
course topursue is patent to any man.
Let the railroad company, Instead Of
giving special rates to any point and
to any man who may ask 1t, make con
tract with one reliable forwarding com
pany and to this one point. This will
encourage tile shippers in the Hills, be-
cause then they will know exactly what
course to pursue and where To- look for
tlleir freight and to- whom to look for
damages III case: of idelay Of carelessness,
and besides such d course viii give full
satisfaction to the freig ghters who to day
cannot tell whether to come to Melora,
Die kinsol or Belfeld for freight. The
Black Hills freight this year viii
amount in tho aggregats to at least 49,
600 GOO pounds, and during this month,
August and septenlber will the large
roportion Of this amount be shipped,
and light now Is the time for alI con-
cerned to fgnre.. The most Of this
freight Is shipps,I in carload lots, and
consequ quently the railroad company can
afford to give good rates, the freighters
hauling fur 81. .65 q hundred are working
fully as cheap as they can. II the
Northern Pacific railroad wants the
Black Hills freight It can undoubtedly
get more than aS fair proportion, but the
forwarding company must be protected
BY contract and thereby he enabled to
protect the teamsters, who will then
know from whom and where to make
sure of . load. Under the present man-
fagement apparently no one knows when
| he scan get loaded or whore lie can load
from, and tliis uncertainty will In the
end not only work hardship on tho
lfreighter but drive him to other routes
where he knows such contracts exist be-
tween the railroad and forwarding COM
lpanies as enable the latter to be always
liable to tell to within q few days Of the
ttime Of the arrival OF freight. We pre-
dict that if lsuch stops are not taken tile
shippers and freighters will get so dis
tgnsted That the railroad will lose this
freight entirely. n M 8SsI e,