Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-20
Elop ator Determinations. (.

made by Col Clough, tho counsel Of
the Northern Pacific Railroad comp
ny, in regard to the policy Of that
company relating to elevators and
warehouses, and some remarks made
concerning the local trouble between
q. II. Rhodes and the company We
also published letter written by Mr..
Rhodes on the. same subject. TIE
letter Was afterwards published in tho
Piap.r Press. accompanied by tire
following: .-.-. -.
TINE OTHER D1DE OF THE STORY.
Col. Cloush and Mr.. Sawyer were to-
E.et!'sr shown a copy OF Mr.. Rhodes
communication. COL. Clough, afber
g'eadingit over said:
1t appears to me that Mr.. Rhodes lei
Ter contains about hushel Of inslns1x
tions 10 single grain Of assertion. With
Ire desires amy things to be inferred he
does not have the courage to come "aa
and state them positively, probably tx
the reason that he Is conscious that the
statements cou ID readily be retu,ed. The
drs, inquiry Mr. Rhodes makes is as to
what good points on the Duluth q Little
Fails division Mr.. Sawyer built elevators
previous to building the one at Little
Falls. The first answer have to make
is that there is no sucl, railroad building
rs the Duluth j. Little Falls and never
has been. There has been and is divi-
sion called the Little Falls l. Dakota
division. To this division, presume,
Mr.. Rhodes refers in his communication
! made no assertion in my remark con-
corning the order of time in which TIE
elevators were built, but prior t" build
| ing asy elevators or wnref ouses 81, III At
! line Mr.. Sawyer arranged with the man
agement for leave 10 construct elevators
at seven principal, points along the line
1t happened that the first one actually
com l,leted was the one at Little Falls;
but it is true that the construction and
mAintainance Of this one was insisted
upon by the management o: the roads
for the reasons stated by me in my re-
! marks. The names Of the points at
whi"h Mr.. Sawyer bull, The elevators l
leave him 10 state himself, rs he is pres
ea1. Secondly, | did not say that at
Duluth it was found that on, OF every
Car load OF wheat out of Il fat warehouse
there was taken 1900 pounds Of dirt.
What did say WAS that during the late
shipping season, upon Al average fifteen
bushels Of dirt were taken out Of each
car load OF grain handled in flat ware
houses. did not say that this average
would be true at every place at which
wheat is handled. The wheat of 1854 i,
in many parts Of North Dakota and
Minnesota. was UNUSUALLY dirty. or rather
had mixed with it an unusual quantity
! OF foreign seeds 1t is probably true that
| at some localities the wheat OF 1884 was
tolerably csrsn, but at most localities the
proportion Of foreign seeds in,crmixed
was extremely large. This waste matter
It WIS beyond the power uf fiat ware
! houses to extract. The whole mass, for
cign substance. and all, had to be carried
: through 'o the elevator and separated
after arrival by the use of machinery.
With respect to The elevator of Mr.. Kobe
at Royalton, it was not protected against
the flat warehouse for the reason that
Mr.. Kobe was under no obligation
whatever to keep open his elevator day.
He could have closed it at any time.
Mr.. Sawyer has always been anxious t.
obtain leave OF the company; tn run his
business At Little Falls on the same terms,
and let The whole world come st:,a, sees
fit to come. 1t is not true that The railroad
company in,erfered for the protection of
the interest Of Mr.. Sawyer as agains, the
farmer. On the contrary, Mr.. Sawyer
was merely used as an instrument for
protecting the farmers against the dam
age which would inevitably result from
closing up the market nine or ten months
in the year. 1t is true, AS stated in my
remarks, that the general freight agent
of the company was willing to afford all
the transportation facilities 10 Mr..
Rhodes which he might desire, upon
condition that he would keep his house
open for the reception Of grain, and
would continue to handle grain through
out The year hs Mr. Sawyer was required
to do ri his house. This can be proven
If necessary, as more than one person
was conversant with the facts In respect
to the other matters referred to in Mr.
Rhodes communication, but about which
he prudently declines to make any asser-
ton, they are matters in the every day
business of Mr. Sawyer's elevators, con-
cernisg which no officer otthe Northern
Pacific Railroad company has ever heard
OF any of these things before. In none
Of the communications between Mr..
Rhodes and the officers Of the company
has he ever mentioned any Of them.
MR.. sAwYER's VERSION,
l haye repeatedly notified the people
OF Little Falls that if they would get the
railroad company to remove the restrlc-
tons from my elevator they might line
the side track from one end to the other
with flat warehouses, and would guar
antee that the elevator would take care
of itself. They have never manifested
any disposition to do that, but demand
that the elevator shall I've kept open dur
ing the year and operated against the fiat
warehouse duriag the wheat season. In
answer to Mr.. Rhodes statemen in regard