The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-11-06

q. And AID You have an advantass.
through shipment and exchange OF cars,
upon q joint rate?
business you could not provide cars. nor
and make the large expenditure that IL
necessary to do 1t In the most economical
and emcient manner when the market
fore. the door was liable to be shut any
day by somebody saying, "Weu, we think
we will turn this current Of commerce
ro% soms osSsr The ed w q
think, is the largest, is the cheapest. It
will promote the mining Of coal down
can do that better than anybody else can.
Mr.. Harris then proceeded to explain
at some length the transportation Of the
the Burlington road. He said the Buriing-
ton line ran to Billings and through the
Black Halls country. In South Dakota.
Of low grade.
stockholders thought that through the
70 tae s ada Teat oS 6e
necessity thrown to the Burlington, which
would produce greater revenue than u
the 9ren ts oe.on q, ron
ore and explained the large advantages OF
shipments of iron ore from the deposits
the ana aan Serb psaehea cs te
the Mississippi valley to st. Louis and
coal returned on the same cars. This
would enable coal to be transported at
much lower rates than would otherwise
be, possible. There are large manufac-
turing interests along the line Of the
many articles manufactured which are
Of 3 connection g the Great Northern
md can non
ing plants are greatly increased and
stimulated. as there Is q means Of direct
shipment to the coast. There are also
ton to be shipped over the Burlington to
the coast All Of this made a business
which is valuable to the public, because
which could be secured. the lower would
be the freight on mercha ndise and speci-
fic shipments Of individuals along the
He was especially strong in his claim
that the supply OF coal to the northwest
could not have otherwise been made prac;;
without the return turn business for the coal
cars would make rates so high as to be
almost prohibitory. but with the inter-
w make s Of das gp beth heE eoS Ss
northwest and within the reach OF all.
President Melien's Testimony.
MI; Mellen. President Of the Northern
POSITION carried With ii an membership In
the board Of directors. and also member
ship in the executive committee; He had
nected wit the ie onion Pacific aa 0e He e was
familiar with the Burlington system and
had been for ten years. He thought that
sy ss f hs ana gsat o
efn not only did not restrain trade and
commerce between the states and the
foreign nations, but that they promoted
hNf1 In fro{o ft nd COZ
The Northern Pacific as company had
never taken any part in the formation Of
the Northern Securities > company. and y,
were in before the Northern Securities
was formed.
e. N. Sanders.
The last witness examined in st. Paul
was Mr.. p. N. Sanders. president of the
Northwestern Fue! company: He testified
that he was q miner and distributor Of
COAL and had principal charge Of that
North and South Dakota and NEBRASKA.
l linels so and Wisconsin a they mine about
that he was Interested in the Spring VAL
ley Coal company in northern Illinois.
and in a coal mine In Indiana All Of this
short period the greater portion Of the BIZ
luminous coal which he had furnished for
the northwest came from Pennsylvania
IL
had difficulty in obtaining their supplies.
During the last two years 1t was almost
impossible to get anything like an ade-
quate supply. The requirements for trans
portation on the railroads from the east
have been so great that they have been
absolutely unable to furnish the motive
power to move the coal and the cars
themselves during the short period Of
navigation.
The following questions and answers
were especially pertinent:
@. Heretofore, prior to the year 1901.
how has it been with Illinois coal shipped
from the mines in that state destined to
points beyond st. Paul and Minneapolis?
A. It has been almost impossible to
get 1t through on account of the fact that
the; Chicago. Burlington & Quincy and
other roads who could haul it to those
points have always been unwilling and in
fact have refused to allow their equip-
ment to go through to the destination OF
the coal, which necessitated transferring
it here into the cars Of the lines reach
ing north, to the great injury Of the
coal and great delay in transit, and with
great addition to the cost.
Mr.. Grover-What makes the additional
cost?
Witness-The labor Of transferring and
the delays incident to transferring.
@. State what effect that has upon the
coal itself, and whether that effect Is
greater on Illinois coal than on eastern
coal. Ff ssa.l
A. 1t is damaging to all grades Of BIZ
luminous coal, and especially to Illinois
coal, in that it breaks it up and produces