The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-10
FIGHT FOR FREIGHT.
War Between Great Northern
and Northern Pacific.
LINE UP THE skAGIT VALLEY.
Superintendent EeH Tells OF Diserfm-
fnatien-CornwaII Road May Go
20 rorfhsrn Pacific.

While at Fairhzven on Thursday even
Ing Superintendent Nef, Of the Great
Northern road, addressed the Chamber Of
Commerce in reply TO charges that the
road was discriminating against that city,
the removal Of q shiDgle mill from the
city being quoted a. one result. The
Fairhaven Herald publishes the following
report Of the speech:
The injustice Of sueh charges were made clear
70 all present By bis statements. In reference
q TIE shingie matter, he said that tia rate 20
seattle, nearly 100 miles, was only cents per
100 pounds, which. on the basis Of 100 pounds
70 TIE ear load, would give the company only
SIS per car for the haul, which was certainly
could b probably handled. 1t was
given beesuss the company desired
% do everything IN its power 70
foster tbs thingis industry. The good
intentions of the Crest Northern, however, bad
been practically set at nsught By the refusal Of
both the Canadian Pacific and the Northern
Pacific 70 adopt this small local rate and thus
place our shippers on an approximately equal
foStirg with those located on their own lines.
He had given logging rate equivalent TO only
SEQ per car for shipments within a radius Of
twenty miles, and this would barely pay the
runaing expenses o. the trains required. The
shifting charge Of s.. 80 psr car 20 and from the
Beilingham Bay L British columbia had been
disgensed with. The sksg1t valley branch could
not now b operated because the company was
seriously Handicapped by lack of suf-
fcient rolling stock. ell OF It being
required On tie main line. More f. ex-
perted soon, however, and as soon
Fl arrives and arrangements can be perfected for
shipping coal from the Fsirhsveu mine, the val
iey branch win be regularly operated He
further minated that the line would very
a. L. fzaa vsa- SaG Ill sa4
how ias he smiled and said he could not say. He
announced th&t express and public telegraph
service wonld be established IN about ten DAYS
AMI uptown Offices opened here, aud in con-
ciusion remarked that 40 far from diserimi-
mating against Fairhavsa the management Of
TIE Crest Northern disposed 70 treat the
people with the utmost fairness His remarks
were listened 10 with the closest attention, and
the chambers appreciation Of bis voluntary aud
courteous explanations was manifested BY ex-
tending him a vote q thanks.
In reference 70 this matter the following
special dispatch was received last night:
FAIEHAyEs, Jan. 9.-fspscial l-superlntend
enf Ssf, Of the Great Northern, returned 10
be2ftis today from a trip over the line in com
psny with Assistant Engineer seurield. In
reference 70 his statement before the Chamber
OF CcmInercs Oh Thursday evening. tsat both
the Northern Pacific aud Canadian Pacific
had refused 10 absorb the Great North
arms rate OF cents per hundred on
shiugiss from here 70 Seattle, the reason Of the
Northern Pscitcs action in obvious Its object
Ii 70 lester the shingle industry along the line
OF the Seattle, Lake shore Eastern which
passes through fne timber country, including
great cedar belt in the skagif valley and along
the south fork Of the Sooksack. The same 10
true OF She Canadian Paciac's whatcom county
feeder, the BeliDghara Bay & British Columbia,
which was built for logging road By the Corn
wall and Mills syndicate.
Mr.. sen retaliates on the Northern Pacific by
giving aTass Of fifteen cents per hundred on
suaAll shipments OF dressed beef and perishsbls
freight from Seattle. which cannot be met by
tbs AeEthern Pacific steamers without actual
loss. The iobbers here IN tha, line of business
complain, however, that the rate IL an unfair
DISCRIMINATION against them. being two ana
hall cents per hundred less than the car load
rate. This Mr.. Nef does not deny, but replies
that the ear load rate 10 fixed by the Western
Traffic association and cannot be changed nv
him- However, that may be, the discrimination,
II any. effects few persons here, even II it is an
sdysutagy 70 Seattle dealers.
slues re stated that the Great Northern
would soon have line up the skaRit VALLEY.
parties In from Sank City, at the confluence of
the Sank rfTsr with the skagit, and the nearest
valley point Of importance TO the Monte cristo
mining district, say that two men have been at
WORK IN that vicinity during the past two
weeks securing rsght-of.wsy. They refused to
say in whose intsres. they were employed, but
IL is very generally believed that they are work
Ing for the Great Northern
Ahksd how soon coal and coke Shipment,
from the FairhEvsn mine would begin, Mr.
Net said: "As soon - you make market for
the prodnct" he referred 20 President HIPS
approaching visit to the Sound. aud said that
he would DO ia Fsirhayen about the 18th.
~ bile he has important business in Seattle, he
also has important business hera."