The Redwood gazette., 1899-07-26

SIOW OuU VI q uCCUluS UWCCA 20
ident E. E. Carpenter and Auditor
Campbell, Of the Gulf & Manitoba
Railway Co. and the members of the
Redwood Falls railroad committee,
on Thursday evening last, at which
Mr.. Campbell expressed desire to
speak to as many farmers and local
business men as could be gotten
together on Saturday night. 1t
was decided to have an open air
meeting, on account of the hot
weather, and the front door of the
court house was named
On Saturday evening street
show held the meeting until nearly
nine o'clock, when quite large
crowd, several farmers being among
the audience, gathered at the court
house steps, where President Bald
win of the Board of Trade, intro
duced Mr.. Campbell. The latter
opened his remarks on the real
agricultural wealth of Minnesota as
he saw it during his trips across
the country, and then proceeded to
say that Redwood Falls and the
people residing around it had simply
to take the rates of a railroad COM
pany coming into the city, but going
nowhere. He then insisted that
the east and west lines had been
carrying Minnesota, Iowa and other
western produce to Chicago and
New York and the Atlantic sea-
board, and by these long hauls and
excessive rates had made many a
millionaire in Wall street, The trib-
ute exacted was something ter
rible. He then stated that the Pitts
burg & Gulf railroad, running from
Port Arthur to Cover, Missouri,
connection of the Gulf & Manitoba
railroad, was carrying freight,
through boat connections at New
York by way of Port Arthur and
Galveston, to the sou thern Mime
sofa Iowa line at over IS cents per
hundred less than were the east
and west lines, and it was this
numbering of business of the east
and west lines by the P. & G. line
that led the east and west lines to
buy the stock of the Gulf line and
throw the road into the hands of a
receiver, who was again placing the
road on it's feet.
i Mr.. Campbell pointed out that the
farmers of this section were paying
tribute of II cents per bushel on
wheat to elevator and railroad COM
panies for hauling the wheat to
Minneapolis, a distance of 1O7 miles,
while in Iowa, it is carried to the
seaboard, a distance of over LOO
miles, for only about half the tariff.
He said that what the people here
wanted was line that would carry
: wheat at a fair rate-at least three
cents less per bushel, from Redwood
Falls to Duluth or Galveston; line
that would haul anthracite coal and
wood from Duluth and the north to
this place so that it could be sold at
fair price; that would haul lumber
from Georgia and other southern
points to this market at fair rate,
and that would carry products of
this northern section, not grown in
the south, to that section, and
products of the south, not grown in
this section, tothese northern points.
{ It would open new markets for
northern and southern products,
and would eventually give them con-
troll of the exports to the south, and
to the East and West Indies.
Mr.. Campbell took up the ques-
tion of short and long distance
hauls, and it was while he was
showing up their fallacies, in con-
nection with the competitive rates,
that MIR. Brammer again interrupt
ed him, and after it was apparent
that Mr., Campbell scored, the crowd
; again administered scorching
blow to the Northwestern interests
by calling on the agent to sit down.
The meeting closed with manifest
: friendly feeling to the Gulf & Mani
toba Railroad.
: On Saturday morning the work of
taking levels between this city and
Beaver Falls, the most difficult por-
, tion of railroad engineering along
!, tho nnfir,o