The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-06-13

| peting for the business. If the railway
done by increasing the business OF It's
customers. This same principle applies
to the. occupation and cultivation of the
| land along the lines of railway through
! out the country, and particularly applies
to the lines west of Chicago. Unless the
IF make n}pey By the eag
| his wheat. his grain, his cotton or his
stock, with profit to himself, the time tins
must come when he will cease to cult1-
vate the land, and the railway is left, as
| 1t WERE in desert.
| Low Rates on Necessities.
| have had some experience in opening up
| and peopling new states, and have al
ways adopted as a fixed policy the max
| ing of rates on the products of the coun-
| try seeking a market, and the necessities
| of life. such as COAL lumber and building
material at the lowest rates the COM
L
profit from the lighter articles of mer-
| chandise and shelf goods consumed in the
fo At tines we have been v cr
| ing from merchants who have desired a
| lower rate.
The following win illustrate our an
| have pursued: Take a farmer in Iowa
with a hundred acres of wheat yielding,
say, twenty bushels TO the acre, two
thousand bushels, or sixty tons. A re
duction of five cents hundred. or 81
| ton. would amount to him to $50 per an
mum. If he visits the country store once ce
/ a week for fifty-two weeks and takes
away from the store each week fifty
pounds of merchandise, in a year he will
the entire freight on which would not
| have averaged 40 cents a hundred, or
| 5000, SO that if the railway carried the
| merchandise for nothing and charged an
additional cents a hundred on his grain,
| the farmer would be worse off by nearly
| $50 year. This Illustration 1 hope makes
the people served by. the. railway is the
only path to prosperity for the railway.
| The railway and its patrons must always
prosper together or suffer together. The
| greater the volume of business the lower
aDG railway lI ' has to raise 81 900, 900 on
ton shows that its profits must be 81
| ton; if there are 1000, 900 tons. SO cents
| ton and if there are 100000 tons, 20
| cents ton will bring the same pront. In
|
/ ;r+o,,iaon+ rai1rva, .an,e,+ &c com
| stantly called upon to secure for the
| producers on its various lines a market
return load for the car carving such
product to market We have on the Pa
| cific coast the largest body of first -class
| When l first visited that country, with a
view to extending our lines to the coast
saw at once that unless we could carry
| would enable them to manufacture and
ship it with profit our railroad would
have no business. The first and great
| made a rate of 40 cents a hundred for
two thousand miles. or four mills a ton
per mile. on this lumber, in order that we
| the me l to the west This rate
| the result was the EXPANSION of the lum-
her trade of WASHINGTON and Oregon so
| that today it is over ten times what it
| was nine years ago, and, in place of seek
| ing additional loads for our cars from the
loads for our westbound cars going out
| to be loaded with lumber for the great
treeless states of the Middle West, and
| the development of this Pacific coast
lumber traffic will work a greater change
! in the Oriental trade of the country than
| all the efforts of all the men engaged in
| To enable US to keep pace with the
| enormous demand for this lumber. was
the moving cause of our building the
| 49,,
Largest snips IN the world
through which we will be prepared this
fall to meet not only the rates of other
transcontinental lines both in the United
States and Canada, but we will meet the
rates made by steamer from the Atlantic
ports via the Suez canal. Every manu-
facturer reached by any railway in the
United States can ship his goods to the
Orient by rail to the Pacific coast and
thence by steamer. at rates that will
| compete with water transportation from
| the Atlantic seaboard to the east by way
of the Mediterranean and Suez canal.
Were it not for the certainty that there
is carload OF lumber waiting for every
empty car that we can furnish on the
Pacific coast we could not carry the
Oriental business at twice the rates we
will offer
Much has been SAID ABOUT the increase
of
Traffic in the East.
1 will us. as an Illustration what has oc-
CURED in Japan. Twenty years ago the
foreign trade of Japan was not to exceed
81 per capita of the population. Today
this trade is equal to Sc or 81 per capita
of it's population. Twenty years ago it