The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-07-23
Sir Puges Including supplement.
The Future Milling Centre
THE MINNEAPOLIS MILLERS As
ADvERTISiNG AGENTS.
They Give Superior Some '.AimOst
Priceless, Advertising.

The Northwestern Miller. a journal
Of authority in its line, and published
ut Minneapolis, thus aliudes editorially,
To the late interstate investigation re-
garding wheat rates from western
points to Minneapolis, Superior anG
Duluth, which investigation was de-
manded by the millers of Minneapolis,
No comments that we could make
could add to the points made clear by
the editor Of the Miller:
The milling world outside of Min
nesota has been laughing in its sleeve
at the contest between Superior and
Duluth and Minneapolis over the ques-
tion of discrimination i'll freight
rates." it says 1t has 'chorlled in
its glee' to see the Minneapolis millers
appealing for justice to the interstate
commerce commission, and the charges
and counter charges made by the mill
erS of the two cities constitute certain
~ an amusing, if not an edlfying
spectacle.
If it was the intention to advertise
far and wide in the very best way the
advantages Superior and Duluth pos
sess as points where the business of
flour making can be successfully car
ried on, then the plea of Minneapolis
isa success. Superior and Duluth re-
joice i'll the prominence given them.
They leap at one bound from compare
tive ohscurity into the position before
the general public of rivals to the
greatest flour producing city i'll the
world-rivalS which, il the plea of
their very competitors is to be credit
ed, threatens TO utterly destroy the
future of their business. The value of
this sort Of advertising is almost price
less.
I'VE believe that this was 4 poor
stroke of business policy on the part of
AiinnoYn.Ali1-n le,.l. tad nllp La. .Aenatit
ate their milling centre. The damage
thereby done was greater than any
good which can come through the ap-
peal to the commission As for the
cities of Superior ana Duluth they pos
sesS certain natural advantages as
flour making points which the rulings
~of the interstate commission, even if
the appeal of Minneapolis ;iccomplisheS
It's desired result, can not destroy If
they do not possess these advantages
and are merely basing their future
hopes for milling -eminence on the
temporary discrimination in their
favor which now exists, they are pro
ceeding on insufficient grounds, and
must sooner or later make flour on eX-
actly the same basis as other cities.
That they have these advantages seems
to be generally admitted by those who
have thoroughly and carefully investi-
gated the subject
Minneapolis, on the other hand, has
tremendous flour making concerns
long established and exccllently equip
ped. She possesses reputation and Il
position before the world in the matter
OF flour which she has been many years
in attaining and which cannot be de
strOyed in day. She has prestige,
wealth and innumerable advantages.
Mills cannot be picked up by the roots
and transplanted from point to point
to meet the shifting and temporary
conditions which apparently make one
CITY superior over another for milling
purposes. Before such plants will
shut down and fall into decay. there is
Il long fight to be made, and in the
course of the same there is nothing
Superior and Duluth possess which
Minneapolis may not have, if she Will
set about to obtain it by the harmon
ions and intelligent cooperation of
her miilers. Superior ard Duluth can
teach her few lessons and her mlllers
need not be too proud to learn them g"