The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1902-10-31
| in COURT.

e
Against Northern
% Company.
= st. Paul, Mimi, Refore
IAppointed for that
Court--Mr. Hill
The Stand.
Ehe government Of the
as instituted a suit
rman antitrust law
ethern Securities COM
that company from
And carry out the So
the Great Northern
ncifc, is well known.
been taken in New
" to be taken in st.
F. g. Ingersoll, COM
ted by court for that
lily. Mr.. j. ]. Hill.
and important wit
bny was very volumi-
details of the great
ire made public. He
md for two days, but
My a fragment Of his
vas followed by Mr..
Mt of the Burlington
9r. Weyerhaeuser, the
eler, who is a director
Northern, and others.
Seat array of eminent
mt as participators or
n a general way of the
1t railway system, of the
The trade in the Orient,
Situation Of the country.
4old his story in his own
learned counsel having
4row out a hint that MI.
tell it some other way.
elating briefly the organi-
~. Paul, Minneapolis &
and later its reorganiza-
3reat Northern road, and,
h very much pressing that
Sly determined the policy
pecially the policy Of ex-
This was, however, he
Nv due to the fact that
6ther directors had been
"a for Keeps. & J. &
~ the Great Northern had
Rough to the coast in 1898,
hat $500. 900. had been ex-
8veying' alone, as he de-
e4ain that he was building
40 best possible locations.
u little side remark at this
F. that while riding along
MIA system once he OBJ
Of that system being
right of way. and, he
a to avoid all that sort Of
the western country con-
Of lumber, and 1t was es-
Great Northern to handle
Fit was to do business at
ut that time was 80 cents
Ids, which was prohibitive.
lumber manufacturers
hit that IL they had a rate
~ could send lumber east.
do 1t with a rate
cents, SO we made 1t 40
trade began to de-
make a low rate on east
1t was essential to
lWtern movement of cars to
ecessity of bringing empty
hip the lumber in. Within
&ad-s so developed this trade
q Alaska and the eastern
ge were enabled to secure
TOR the markets of the ORR
Z to keep a movement Of
ant a shipment of lumber
! rate making the shipment
irofitable.
j did you take to secure
across the Pacific, and
did that have to your pur-
Burlington road stock?,"
ing.
that the lumber supply Of
ties east of the Rockies and
Ohio river was more and
It upon the Washington and
and that the time was
when the states
furnishing lumber to the
i have enough lumber for
is michigan, for instance,
more than she can manu-
as especially interested in
kffic, because If there was
JUS to carry from the west
ling at all for us to carry
a saw that it was only a
ne when Washington and.
supply all the lumber Of
SIS soon to be so. In order
nte we must have a large
I've markets to which we
thing made In the east,
continual eastern traffic
guenced the Japanese to
&lot Of American rails in
Slgian and English rails,
ed them to buy American
1rantee that IL It was not
would pay for 1t.
trade has been growing
ger since. We chartered
Mis- cotton and these rails
nan make q: rate to Hong
III enable the Minneapolis
y their flour to China II
ke Chinese trade"
Goal Supply.
Rantage, II any, did you ex-
and have you derived from
/ purchase in regard to the
for the country traversed
the above question. Mr.. Hill.
on the west end they had
Of coal and on the east end
st has come from Pennsyl-
st Virginia and some from
It was apparent that they
n rely on the previous re-
east, and 1t is consequent
rest to use the supply they
only for themselves but for
well from the Illinois coal
ldes Of the Burlington road
to carry an enormous tom