Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-10-26
Shingles FOR THE EAST.
Why the Canadian Pacific Does Not
Compete For the Business
NEW EATING HOUSE OPENED
Large Number OF Judgments Rendered
in Delinquent Tax Suits
For 1890

The great dissatisfaction at present
prevailing among the shingle manu-
facturers at the refusal of the Canadian
Pacific railway to accept shingles for
delivery in the east, and the failure of
the Northern Pacific to supply cars in
sufficient numbers to place the product
of our mills upon the market with d is
patch is a subject of great importance
to the people of this county where hun
dreds of men are now employed in the
shingle industry. The present state of
affairs must be improved upon or some
steps will be taken by the manufactur-
ers to relieve themselves. The Wash
ington Cedar Shingle company has
been shut down for large part of the
time for month past, and rumors are
heard Of the intention of this and other
companies to move their plants TO some
point where better railroad facilities are
offered.
The Northern Pacific railroad Off
cials declare their inability to secure
the return of thousands of empty cars
which have gone east with shingles
and say that the amount received as
freight is not sufficient to leave a mar
gin OF profit after hauling the cars
empty to the coast. The Canadian Pa
clflc up to few weeks since was haul
ing carload lots to Chicago and COM
mon points for 60 cents per hundred
pounds, which was generally satisfac-
tory to the manufacturers, but owing
to the ruling of the Great Northern,
which demanded local rates for the
short haul from Gretna, Montana, to
st. Paul, which rate is said to have
been greatly in excess Of the propOr-
ton due them, the Canadian Pacific
people were obliged to refuse to accept
shingles until they can transport them
the entire distance over their new line
extending south from Regina to St.
Paul, which they expect TO complete
next April. This new line will be
shorter than any line now i'm operation
and the Canadian Pacific company
promises rates which will be satisflc-
tory. Meanwhile shingles must be
sent from here to Sumas at a cost of
$3.50 per car, which adds 10 cents per
thousand to the cost of freights, or sent
by boat from here 10 Tacoma at an ex-
pense for freight and wharfage which
greatly reduces the profit to the man
ufacturer, struggling to secure footing
for his product in the markets of the
East. A new method Of shipment is
proposed by way of Portland and the
Union Pacific railroad, the steamer
Haytian Republic taking the shingles
from here, which may to some extent
assist the shippers but may not
prove of any great advantage,
as the expenses of teaming
to the dock and wharf charges will
bring the expenses up to the cost of
freight to Sumas. Until the Great
Northern is built across the mountains,
or the Canadian Pacific's branch to St
Paul is completed, there appears to be
no means of shipping the product Of
our mills at low rate, and manufac-
turers are, owing to the lack Of facili-
ties offered them, reducing the product
of their plants far below their capacity.
Until some more satisfactory method
of shipping is discovered the shingle
industry will not make such rapid
advance as it made during the time
when the Canadian Pacific railway
was able to place the product of the
mills in Chicago at an expense Of only
sixty cents per hundred pounds for
freight.