The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-08-24
NOT TO BE WITHDRAWN.
Both Petitioners and Railroads Anxions
to Proceed with the Case.

to Proceed with the Case
A st. Paul paper has announced
that the complaint in the ore rate
hearing will be withdrawn Sept. 6.
when lawyers and members of the
state railroad and warehouse commits
sion assemble in Duluth to 90 on
with the case,
The closing of the Pioneer mine
deal by the Oliver Mining company is
apparently the basis for the report
says the Tribune. While John G..
Brown and DR.. Conan, the petitioners
IN the ore rate case. were both inter-
ested in the Pioneer Mining company.
1t was to the extent of their interests.
DR.. Conan is the largest fee owner in
the Pioneer mine and Mr.. Brown owns
number of more than promising iron
properties in the immediate vicinity
OF Ely, and which are now undergoing
development. 1t is learned from the
people on both sides of the ore rate
case that it will be carried on to a fin
ish. The railroad people wish to see
1T carried through to the end for the
reason that they feel that they have
had the best of the controversy thus
far and that if the present case is
dropped without reaching a decision
it will be only a matter of a short
time when all Of the work already
done will have to be done over in con-
sequence of some other shippers filing
a petition for reduction of rates.
The present petitioners desire to have
the case concluded for they have other
interests that will, they believe, be
favorably affected by a reduction of
rates. One of the attorneys for the
petitioners was SURPRISED yesterday
when informed of the report that the
ore rate hearing might be dropped.
he said there was nothing in it, and
one of the attorneys for the railroads
also said that it was news to him and
undoubtedly untrue. The sale of the
Pioneer mine was merely an incident.
Negotiations for the property had
been in progress for many months
before the plan to petition the state
railroad and warehouse commission
was put into effect. Possibly Henry
Oliver is not as much concerned about
iron ore rates as the independent
miners, for he can talk rates to the
railroads On the basis of man in a
position to offer enough freight to
make it an abject to build road of
his own if he is dissatisfied. The sale
of the Pioneer or any other mine
would not affect the present ore rate
proceedings. Nothing has been filed
or sent to the commission indicating
any change in the condition Of the
case. which remains the same as it
was when the adjournment was taken
to Sept. 6 for further hearing, 1t
would matter nothing if all the priv
ate interests on both ranges were
bought up by one syndicate as far as
the iron ore rate case is concerned,
because the state of Minnesota is now
party to the proceedings. Before
the hearing began Attorney General
Childs stated that after it would begin
it could not be dropped BY any COM
promise deal between the various
parties at issue. One of the allega-
tions in the complaint is that several
valuable iron mines Of the Mesaba
range are situated on school lands
of Minnesota and leased or subleased
to persons or corporations who, owing
to unreasonable or oppressive rates on
iron ores, have been and are unlikely
to be unable to operate the same at
profit"