The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-03-27
THAT SINGLE TARIFF.
single Copy Reaches Seattle to Tell
Its Terms

Copies. or rather a copy, OF the much
talked-of shingle tariff over the Northern
Pacific. could be seen for the first time in
Seattle yesterday. The peculiar fact about
its arrival Is that II came 10 the Lake
Shore office. and not to the Northern Pa
cific. As 1t goes into effect next Wednes-
day. railroad men themselves admit 1t is
rather singular that the usual number of
copies has not been sent out. General
Agent /. a. Nadeau. OF the Northern Paci-
fic. has received notice of the new ar
rangement. but no copy OF the tariff
The little tariff bill looks dry and I'm
interesting enough Of itself. albeit the
shingle men seem to regard 1t as such a
distuFber OF their shipping interests. In
the customary yellow folder. with big
black letters and an innumerable array of
railroads and figures. 1t announces a new
joint tarln on logs. shingles, fir lumber,
etc, from North Pacific coast terminals to
various Eastern points.
The chief items in the new arrangement
are substantially as announced already in
the Pos,-lntelligeneer. To points in Ne
braska. Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. there
as no change from the present. except that
a 61-cent rate on shingles and a 57-cent
rate on fir lumber is offered via Billings
to points on the Humeston & Shenandoah
road. and s2ie-cent rate on shingles, and
hZls-cent rate on fir lumber. to the follow
ing Missouri. Kansas d Texas points:
Moberly. Higbee. Monroe. Bonneville.
and Sedalia. In Illinois. the Burlington
has Withdrawn from all territory east OF a
line running through Barstow. Bushnell
and Beardstown TO East St. Louis. Rates
to points on and west OF this line remain
unchanged.
The most important item in the new tar
IN is that all business for Peoria. Savanna.
Chicago and intermediate points Will here
after go by way OF St Paul. Seattle ship
ments TO this territory have heretofore
been handled by way of Billings. and tho
shingle men whose opinions were quoted
the other day In the Post-Intelligencer
think they stili ought to 20 by the same
route. The new ''routelng' arrangement is
evidently going to produce some conflict
OF opinion between the single men and
the Northern Pacific. The shingie men
contend that the new plan viii he unfair
10 them. The Northern Pacific people
don't think So
The new arrangement is on perfectly
natural lines" said / A. Nadeau yester-
day. in proof of which YOU have only
20 look at westbound shipments. II such
shipments. coming say to Seattle. are from
81 Louis. they naturally come by way of
Billings. But II they are from Peoria or
Chicago. even the burlington people there
viii negotiate for them. by way of ST
Paul The lumber men certainly cannot
he so unreasonable as TO expect us to take
short haul when we are entitled by every
consideration TO n long one"
In addition to the rates above specified
the new tariff. which was seen yesterday
through the kindness Of +. A Alien. acting
general freight and passenger agent of the
Seattle. Lake Shore & Eastern. offers the
following terms 10 shippers by way OF Bill
ings. all other shipments over the Notherrs
Pacific 10 so by way OF St Paul:
sixty cents on logs, shingles. etc, and
~ cents on fir lumber To all points on the
burlington & Missouri River railroad. ex-
cept west OF Nenango and IIaigler. Neh. 4:
all points on 6 h. s. . in Iowa. on main
( line and branches north of main line. all
points ON G y. 4 O. in Illinois. on or
west OF the line from Davenport to BAR
stow. thence via Alpha and Monmouth
70 Bushnell Inclusive also points between
Bushnell and Beardstown inclusive: al
points on main line OF X e. St J. & G
r.. all points on Is. & w, and all points on
r. 4 y W
SiXty-two ard one-haif cents on shingles
E logs. etc. and so cents on fir lumber to
nations on the <. r & @ as follows
All stations on the Buriinston-Quincy
i branch, Carmel 20 Hon an inclusive Rush
Vile branch. Raw and Nashville. Quincy
branch. Randolph TO Quincy inclusive
ilanatha! and Louisiana branch. Marble
head To Pike inclusive ST Louis ar.s Rock
Island division. Merchant 10 East ST.
s Louis Inclusive. al points on - l.. X 4
W, G.. u. Il X. c. and II 4 ST J.:
Al branch line points on G. Il 4 q. and
4 X e. - J x e h. So Iowa and Missouri
south % main lire OF g. r. 4 =.