The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-25
MORE LUMBER RATES.
Great Northern Opens the Way
to Prairie States.
EVERETT RicHT-oF-WAv DEAL.
Agreement VITA Hill Said 70 Have Been
Practically Granddaughter
Stevens Position.

The Great Northern railroad has issued
. tariff on lumber and shingles from North
Pacific coast terminals to points on con-
Meeting lines in North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois.
Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas,
taking effect on February 20. The rates
in cents per 100 pounds conform generally
TO the new transcontinentai rate with the
addition of the local from the Eastern ter
minai Of the Great Northern to the desti-
nation. Lumber is divided into two
classes, one including lumber other than
fir, logs, shingles, fence posts or wooden
tank material in straight or mixed car
loads or In mixed car loads with fir lum-
Der, and the other including fir lumber
alone.
To points on the Willmar e. Sioux Falls
and the Duluth, WATERFOWL & Pacific
roads the rate on the mixed class is re-
ranges from 10 to IS. having been reduced
from S.. To Sioux City by the Sioux City
& Northern it is IS. the same as before, on
the mixed class and reduced from SIS to 50
on fir. The same changes have been made
to Council Bluffs. Omaha and South
Omaha by way Of the Sioux City & North
ern. Sioux City & Pacific and the Chicago
IL Northwestern. To Kansas City, st.
Joseph. Ileavenworth and Atchison no
change has been made, the old 55-cent rate
still applying on both classes. To Chi
cago, Racine. H., and stations directly
intermediate no change has been made on
the mixed class, while on fir it
is reduced from 60 to IS. A
similar change has been made to
points on the Chicago. st. Paul. Mime
apolis q Omaha and the Chicago 4 North
western, and on the Chicago Great West
ern between Galena and Chicago, inclu-
sive, while q number Of other points on
the last named road in Minnesota, Illi-
nols. Iowa and Missouri get 57H rate on
the mixed class and 30 on fir. a reduction
of ~. To points on the Chicago, Bur-
lington Il Northern the only reduction is
on FIR from 571s to 50 to Calvert and Stod-
dard, Wis, stations from Genoa, Wis, to
Fulton. ILL, inclusive, Dubuque. Ia. Ga
lena, ILL.,. and stations from Daggetts, ILL.,,
to Oregon. ILL.,. inclusive. To number of
points on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy. in Illinois and Iowa, the only re-
duction is from 571z to 50 on fir, and the
same reduction is made to points on the
st. Louis. keokuk g. Northwestern from
Burlington to ST. Louis. inclusive. and
number Of points in Iowa and Minnesota
on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
ern. No separate rate on fir is quoted to
points on the Minneapolis Il ST. Louis and
the rate on the mixed class is left at 57ls.
To number of stations on the Iowa Cen
trail the general rate is 57Hs with no special
rate on fir, and to stations from Memo. Ill.,,
70 Peoria. ILL.,, II remains at 60. To points
oil the Wisconsin Central the rate on fir is
reduced from 20 to 50 with no change in
that on mixed car loads.
The general effect of this tariff is to let
Puget sound lumber into all the North
western states by way of the Great North
ern at. in many cases. lower. and in all as
low. rates as have been made formerly by
the Northern Pacific jointly with the same
lines