The morning call., 1892-03-21

1t will be seen that the rates on agricul-
tural implements by the Southern Pacific
are nearly twice as high as they arc by the
Northern
Acids are rated three times as high.
Grain bags are 81 80 ton higher.
Brick are three times as high
Beans ale nearly twice as high.
BroOm-cOrn shows q marked ference in
favor Of the Minnesota shipper, the rate be-
ing only little over half that paid by the
Californian.
Charcoal-shippers pay less than one-half
in Minnesota what they do in California,
Fire clay goes nearly 80 per cent cheaper.
And dry gods! The ST. Paul merchant
can ship out his stock at Sl8 ton for 800
miles, while at The same identical moment
San Francisco dry goods are going over the
rails only 297 miles al $50 ten. No wonder
our merchants are complaining OF per-
pendicular rates.
We dry fruit in California. They don't
in Minnesota, because they haven't any to
speak IF. That is probably the reason why
California dried fruit, sold by ST. Pau!
shipper TO some customer 800 miles away
only has TO pay 50 ton, while in California
our drled-fruit shipper pays Sl4 60 ton.
Encourage home industry, do they. these
Southern Pacific people? SO does water run
up hill.
Yes. water will run up hill if you can
force 1t through pipe. Let US buy ton
OF pipe in st. Paul and ship il to Grand
Forks. All we will have TO pay ton for
castlr0n pipe is Sc 40. II it is wrought
iron we will have to pay a little more
81 30. We'll, now. we have laid our pipe
down at Grand Forks. Let US send an
other ton from San Francisco to Dunsmuir.
What's this? Rate, S14 30 ton? Go away.
We don't want TO send any pipe to Duns-
muir. We can get more for it down in
bakersfield. anyway. and the distance of
shipment Is about the same. They want
pipe down there for irrigating purposes.
What's The rate 10 Bakersfield? You don't
mean IL? All pipe, cast or wrought. $40 %
ton. Say, guess we'll do business in ST.
Paul.
Now c0al-oil Is cheap commodity. The
rate on that had not ought 10 be very high,
had it? In Minnesota the railroads do not
make any distinction between coil-oil ship
pers. You can ship just as cheaply il YOU
don't happen to be in the Standard Oil ring
Let US see. Rate from St. Paul to Grand
Forks 81 20, whether you ship your oil in
box-tank ears or cylinder-tank cars Now
for the Southern Pacific rate. All, there
are two rates. Yes, one is for the Standard
Oil Company. The higher one? No, the
lower, of course. Standard Oil is monopoly.
Don't you know that? Standard Oi's oil in
box-tank cars SIG 40. Other peoples oil in
cylinder-tank cars $21 60. The other peoples
oil rate is more than three times as much as
the antitrust rate made by the Northern
Pacific
A great gulf Of difference divides the lime
rates Of the two reads. 1t is the difference
between So 40 and $40 10 a ton.
Potatoes move freely in Minnesota for
So 40. Farmers out here are supposed to
keep their potatoes In their bins. If not,
why not give them lower rate than SS 80?
San Francisco makes miles and miles Of
wire cable. When they want to use any no
iD the northern part Of the State they have
to 60 without 1t or pay SIG 40 a ton. It's
very heavy, Is wire cable. 1t is partlcu-
larlp heavy CaIifQruIa In Mipnacnfa
ton Of it only weighs 1000 pounds, and the
Northern Pacific cheerfully hauls Il; 800
miles Tor 81 90
La the comparison between the rates 500
miles west from St. Paul and 800 miles south
from San Francisco, it will be seen that the