The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-08

the field brought out other considerations.
The whole world and every people in Il
have a right to go and come on the high
seas, and we have to meet their oondi-
lions and have to meet them at a very
low rate;
rate to the Coast of 30 cents on lumber.
and the umbermen freely saying that IL
they could get rate OF 65 cents they
would be entirely happy. In talking the
OF the lumbermen | told them they could
not pay 50. We have no right to be in
the railroad business II we cannot carry
what the people have to ship So we
take lumber from here to Lake Superior
for 10 cents per 100 pounds, and have been
maintaining that rate for seven years.
ITO do the transcontinental business and
Asiatic business will bring n great seaport
here. There is no room for unnecessary
expenditure of money. as we have to meet
European competition. In the place Of the
f0.000-ton ships planned eighteen months
ago, we have found II necessary to order
ships that will carry 5000 tons, or
The Campania and Lucania have H000
tons each, and the only two larger ones
are the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse and
the Oceanic. Each of ours. to be in ope-
ration year from this fall, will be equal
to the Campania and Lucania together,
The square feet OF deck room in each of
our ships to be devoted to the carrying of
freight will amount TO over Ave acres
we must have dispatch, and to aid us
In getting 1t we have TO have appliances
that will simplify to enormous degree
the trouble of loading freight We haye
conveyors that, instead of sending coal TO
the bottom OF the ships, will leave 1t near
the top. and let 1t distribute itself by gray
ity. Another Improvement is that of me-
chanical appliances to feed the furnaces
automatically.
"Our grainhouse at Smith cove is al
ready too small for the business we have
10 do; but II we extend IL to the farthest
limits OF the wharf. and extend the mer-
hnF MI hot ha
there is no more room for additions. the
whole would not hold half the cargo OF
one of our new ships.
Must Have Dispatch.
I'm order to handle these ships there
must be the greatest dispatch, and we
can't have any laying around for six or
seven days waiting to be loaded. as II
costs sl.soo to 5000 day to run them.
There must be place where the cargo
can be handled quickly and cheaply, The
vessels will bring 10000 to 1900 tons of
freight say; and If we get fifteen tons in
a car. which is a fair. average. IT means
1000 TO 1880 cars TO haul one of these loads.
and the same 10 bring the outgoing cargo.
We must have twenty-five miles OF yard
tracks to take care of the business Of one
cargo of these new steamers that will be
here year from this next fall I can't
miles of ground except below here (south
OF King street,. These conditions must
be settled to enable US to do this busl-
ness.
we have millions of dollars invested III
our plant here We have our railway. the
tunnel through the Cascades will be an
ished early in September, as there is only
1900 feet to go through out of "A total OF
1920, and the steel bridges and other I'M
provements Will be finished by November
l. and We therefore cannot turn back even
II the way is hard We started TO do bust
ness on these lines. and we are going 10
do &
lumber back, and Il would be Impossible
10 make anything at rate OF % cents.
haul It aea miles and bring the cars back
empty one way. We can now load an th,,
cars we can bring here. and probably more.
Tor there was "A car famine on the Coast
last year and the shipment OF your great
product was limited to the number OF ears
furnished The condition will likely OBJ
tain again this year. ana probably for a
time in the future until we can mud a way
10 get material 20 bring out to Offset the
heavy expense Of moving cars.
1t takes twenty-five miles TO store e 10
cars our terminal tracks al the head II
handle l,4o cars day. Buffalo has 7 s01
miles Of terminal tracks or a total length
Of three times the distance from Buffalo
TO New York over the New York Central.
and yet there are times when Buffalo h
stalled Last fan Il WAS forced 20 call A
halt because % could not handle any more
freight than was coming 10 U. and ships
were waiting six e. eight DAYS 70 90 q
chance 10 unload some OF them indee
can'e Go IA aud paid y cent premium to
! unload AK oar elevators. so they could get
! dispatch.
pon't KNOW About Dispatch.
Tho people IN the West DO 90: know
anything about dispatch Al West Slper-
S5a, Mn doa sn TnS f' pT s N ne nisst
{ Ia unioade3. and steaming away with 500
tons ~ grain That IS disp0teA. and b, is
frequently dcer u IL done eN often t~at
| vessels Viii not e1artrf % docks that can
I handle cargo ne rapidly except at hisu.
/ "It is easy O., handle tre,sh. Tn an I-.iar4
{ CITY, faT tho preple conn. vita wagons .tr.f