Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-27
Rhodes Replies TO Cieugh and
Sawyer.

L'tus Isdus, e SD. 1o.-r--- 10 sine gGuit5f:}
beg leave To- pnee mora tsespass upon
| .your valuable space In seplyto5tts STATE
ments male BY Csl.. sCiouga ;sns, Mr.
|stwyer. On their side Col Csougt.
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Mr. R,ottssn letter enntains ahant y
fbushei nj insinstsfinEs to 4 single grain
ef assertion. W.T. liz desires many
| things 10 beints rred, he does ns,s have
the courage 10 come ost and state til,m
positively, probably for the reassn, ths,
ne is conscious that the statements could
readily be refuseti. # ., Il.
Any one who read my letter Knows
ti.at it is fill assertions, every ene OF
which, together ywith all destinations
c''n!aiuel shc;ssln, ars absolutely true,
and cannot be refa,ed either by Col.
'Cloash or any othe- psrs,n. Iusn Col.
C'ough continues: %..s q Nj! vs. r.. ~. =
| The first inquiry Mr., RhoGcs makes is
! as t., what good. points on the Duluth IL
Little Falls divisiou Mr. Sawyer built
| elevators previous Is bujldingr1he one q.
I Liitle Falls. The first answer have to
make is that there is. no such railroad
! building as The Duluth g. Little Falls
! aad never has beea. ..a* .-' !. .
II For further ASSERTION tbs writer will
I state tllat nc did not supppss that 81, reli-
ahle a paper as the Pioneer Press would
report Col. Clough rs saying what i,e
dici net say. Neither did lie suppose
that'so truthful a!person as Col Clohgh
would say that "Mr. Sawyer had been
given the right to build and elevator at
some good points Oh the Duluth q Little
Falls division" when, IN fact, 81 he now
states, there is Eosueh railroad building
as the Duluth d Little Falls and meyer
has BEEN And yet the Pioneer, Press
i'll reporting Col. Ciough, u,ed the ident.
ical words quoted. But while the North
ern Pacific dsclailns any interest in Mr.
S*'wyer's elevators, its attorney, Col
Cloayh, displays very decided interest
n,Mr. Sawyer himself They were not
only in consultation during the day be-
fore Col. Ciough made his statements
atithe capitol, but ny'w, in the presence Of
each other, decide as to which part of my
letter eacl one shall answer, and it is de
clded that Mr.. Sawyer shall state at what
| points ae owAs elevators He informs
thelpublic that
They are located. respectively, at Little
Falls, Swanvile, Westport, Willard, Glen
u,n>l Sinrhtvf,l, (
aga receipts Of the houses. according t0
my best recollection, is 100000 bushels at
the stations outside Of the Little Falls
elevator
NOV, rs an assertion, will state that
at sba time Mr.. 3awyet ouiltlhe elevator
at Little Falls there was not only 40 such
road as tue Little Falls s. Dakota in OK.
istence, aad in consequences no sucil
stations: as those named above, with he
exccp. ion Of Little Falls but there were
No SUCH villa sos as Swanvii!e, W est port,
Willard, Stare 'ck an l. Cyrus. Where
now stands Svanvila was ,hca alshosta
forest, AZ where no v stand .Wex.pbfl,
Willard, Starbuck and Cyrus, we're ttien
unorokcn prairies. At neither ptiat
had there ever been single busswl of
wheat marketed, nor ha d al..sesS,. tss,ss h.rn
a bushsl Mark etel within dozen miles
OF some o. tne:n. And even after the D.,
Little Falls s. D.kota was ouil!. and Mr..
Sawyer had built wheat houses at the
seven points. wi,s.e he NOW owns alevat
ors, at only one POM in The I;A was there
Us mach wheat marketed as C,l. CIouya
admits wdi marketed at Little Fails. and
ut 10 ost OF hem there was much less, and
at oae, al least, there WAS only abou, 8.
oOo bushels, And yet, in the light of /
these facts, COL C!oash telis il, that the
right mad D"cn slsen 10 Mr.. SAWYER to I
onl'd m elevator ut so.ue god points,"
IL reSurn foi WATCH the Nor!ilera Pacific.
"oy The 1he display Of svme authority,
';onpcll"d him TO baiid at Little Falls"
Lid Col, CInuga insinuate, and did he
tell the truth? =
The co'one. Then regales US with fig |
ures showing .he expense of running tue
elevator at Little Fails as well as the |
income dervel1terefrum, and concludes. |
"lhls would leave hial {Mr Sawyer)
with a loss nf over $1,000 year" If
tns Little Fails elevator, which Col. !
Clea;h admits handled 1900 bushels OF
wheat ia year, and which Mr., G. r.
brace, The manager Of the elevator, SAYS
handled oyer 10000 oashQis 81 wheat in |
year, loses its proprietor over $1,000 a |
year, how much must he have lost at I
those good po.nts," where he handled |
only from 5000 to 10000 or 40 900 bash.
els yer year? And yet, Notwithstanding
all these losses, Mr. Soule, WAC acted as
travelling manager Tor Mr, Sawyer, stated |
that the wheat business had cleared him !
900 per year, aud it isa fact diat in a I
few years he has gtown from modest
means to magnificent wealth. Bat Col. ]
ClouG, proceeds: ..> :. =
.Secondly.I did not say thas-a Dulath
it was found that out OF every CARLOAD of
wheat ont Of u Hat warehouse there were
taken l,5oo pounds Of dirt. ,@s@ lt5
Nevertheless, the Pioneer Press report
ed him in these identical words. a gen
efo1as paolic may decide whether Col.
CE'uga or the Pionier Press lied. Again,
Cok Ciaugh proceeds: Isl 80. r. ., .a55f.
4 is not true that the railrord con, ,,any
snterftred tor tie protection Of the in.i
t . Of Mr.. Sawyer, as against the
farmer 1. s.., : s. g.
s bet me quote some kilograms received
from hdrthern Pacific officials, and then
LET the public decide as to the truth DC /