The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-11-06
MERGER. IN COURT.
Lumber and Coal Men Testify a. 10
the Practical Workings.

Lumber and Coal Men Testify a. 70
the Practical Workings.
In the suit OF the United States against
ne Fysda MSItnsTn Securities company: If.
ness to follow Mr.. Hill IN the testimony
taken In St. Paul.
ar Ws y mSs1 !, the the sau
He testified as to the reliance of the coun-
try upon the state Of Washington for lum-
Der. This passage in his testimony is In
@. Are you acquainted with the lumber
supply in the Mississippi valley?
A. Yes. sir: that is where have been
e: How about the amount of standing
timber In the Mississippi valley, available
for making lumber. compared with that
A. + Is getting very short: the supply
Is getting very short.
g. About how long do you think that
yo9 can continue numbering at profit In
A.. Oh. five or six years win wipe out
most Of our mills, though the last tree
these states. 81 am speaking now mainly
OF Wisconsin and Minnesota and Michi-
:. Q. How is it with your own mills "a
this valley? Are they increasing or d.
minishing? fsss97e
a. Diminishing We get through saw saw,
ing at Shell Lake this year and wes6re
9. And taking down those mills?
"A. We used to operate four in Dayen-
@. To what part Of the country are you
re,sorting for s. supply Of timber in the
failure e ~ hae bssa BBS4yH HseE aso
Washington and Oregon @
O.. What has been the extent of your
Ws OWN WaiIe s5eFSsS acre. IN .t
neighbolhood@ If that up to 1.5oo.e0O
haps about the same In Idaho.
lumber from any Of that timber? 80 -
ington and manufacture in Idaho.
Iowa, eastern Kansas and Nebraska,
though Illinois was considerable of mas
could ship. by the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific and the Burlington, were
OF great advantage both to his company
aes tas Dps'.s. fsss tss s oa.
business 1t sal. go 2szsass. 8sss@ s,S
w. p. ciouoh.
w. p. Clough, fourth vice-president Of
the Northern Securities company was the
mse 81 fse ESeTg Of ssS
has been a; direct individual transaction.
The stock purchased was transferred alb
seiately unsonditionally tn. every case and
He had been practically present at the
New York Office every business day since
the company was organized. There was
nothing unusual In the transfers. Holders
Of Great Northern and Northern Pacific
stock would come IN and ask to- sell It
therefor the stock Of the Northern Be-
.' He va s asst' asked the amount Of hold
&Yaera To-
named by Mr. Hill as his particular as
sociates, to which he replied that he
the stock 81 the No CONF 1l
pany.
Geo. B. Harris. president Of the Bur-
six years. The road has about 5000 miles
Of track, and to the question whether the
Northern and Northern Pacific would re-
strain trade and traffic between the states
and foreign countries. he replied:
and T
latent resources and enable forest, min
era! and other products TO be utilized.
Viii which h, are nov ale; The practical sxten.
coast by reason Of its connection affords
|8opport unity to merchants and manufac-
, extend their He cited
in Nebraska and there is not a tree on it,
except those which have been planted by
the settlers, No lumber is cut In Nebras-
ka and sold on the market. Lumber Is
necessity. to assist in settling up that
country. II people could not obtain lum-
Der at q reasonable rate they could not
tage to that country as well as to the
manufacturers on the Pacific coast and to
the transportation lines that distribute it.
from the Pacific coast. Formerly they got
enormous quantities Of lumber from Chi
cage, but that supply was vas, nov largely
the they eou nGt &C.
1t from anywhere. e~os
The cattle industry, he said, was anoth-
epes s1 tba b be nste
loaded on the ranges on the lines f the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific and
He thought the Burlington rails reached
every large packing point that he could
think Of efesRt si9d QUIZ CITY st;snd tho
end the territory tributary 10 1t, as az
f9rding return uI >1 traffic oyer the Great
ing the volume and the reduction Of
A. Well, it is obvious that wagon
ford to do business at a lower price than
one which has to:be hauled one way emp
ty, ana the lumber business amOrdtng a.
constant supplysof tonnage eastbpund en-
ables the company to do westbound, tom
mage, and tempts us to do Westbeund
tonnage at the lowest price we c4ns AFFORD
to in order to promote that business We
accomplish various things by doing that
We give the people OF Nebraska and
Iowa, where weShave q great many lines
we give them cheap lumber, which pro-
notes trade there, promotes settlement
They build houses. make improvements,
and it is an added Indictment to. people
to settle there where we need settlement
and, indirectly, it helps us in other ways.
Those people have got to wear shoes and
clothing and have tea and coffee.
The next matter taken up was the
transportation of coal and iron ores.
Speaking of this Mr.. Harris said: We
reach great many mines from the
Streator district on the north to the dis
trict of which Centralia is.the southern
most point in the south, but great many
and some very large ones, and q few years
iago-a very short time ago, in fact-tl1e
coal supply on the Burlington lines in IL
linois had exceeded the demand to such
an extent that the coal operators were
beginning to be little FESTIVE about 1t.
Thev thought we ought to be able to
hustle around and provide q market in
some way-do something about It. But
It, was something difficult to do that in
dependently. The soft coal does not
stand great many transfers; It is friable,
deteriorates rapidly and must be taken
from the mines to as near the point of
consumption as possible without car
transfer. So this country up here being