The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1902-11-07

amount Of coal that is to be had there
through shipment and exchange Of cars.
over the %fiuctuating conditions attendant
upon q joint rate?
bu Al Me1 Ho,i In ca prHfaPa nn9 n for 3 very er ;. large rye
could the miners afford to work the mines
and make the large expenditure that is
necessary, to do 1t in the most economical
was liable to be changed, or as I said be-
fore, the door was liable to be shut any
day by somebody. saying, well, we think
somewhere else; we would rather nave 1t
from some other place." The field, we
think, Is the largest. is the cheapest. It
there and the use Of coal up here, and we
can do that better than anybody else can.
MT. Harris then proceeded to explain
at some m length the transportation Of the
the 4hes B u RnefeSus roa mstf He sa93 f ~ Bsu mh q
ton line ran to Billings a4dItkdbtgh the
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Continuing. he said that the burlington
stockholders thought that through the
a large amount Of business would be Of
necessity thrown to the Burlington, which
would produce q greater revenue h II
the. Burlington. operated alone.
He then took up the question of iron
ore and explained the large advantages Of
shipments Of iron ore from the deposits
Great .af No Masa1a ana n Nerth heaeh facif as t By
this means the ore could be taken down
the Mississippi valley to st. Louis IND
coal returned on the same cars. This
be possible. There are large manufac-
turing interests along the line Of the
many articles manufactured which are
adapted to the Oriental trade. BY
OF g. connection Of the Great Northern
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 Vi Gould b be Secure secured. i he ssi lover Would wo5
be the freight on merchandise and speci-
nc shipments Of individuals along the
lin OF the roads.
that the supply Of coal to the northwest
could not have otherwise been made prac-
tical, as the cost Of transporting coal
without the return business for the coal
cars would make rates so high as to be
almost prohtbitory. but with the inter-.
weaving of business both ways they could
northwest and within the reach Of all.
President MelIen's Testimony.
MT; Mellen. president Of the Northern
Pacific, testified that he had held that
the board OF directors, and also member
ship in the executive committee. He had
at one time, some years ago, been con-
familiar with the Burlington system and
had been for ten years. He thought that
the acquisition Of the Burlington system
ern not only did not restrain rad and
commerce between the states and the
foreign nations, but h a they promoted
The Northern Pacific ateu as sA a Company as1s had
never taken any part in the formation Of
the Northern Securities company, and
fc were In equally the same position they
were in before the Northern Securities
was formed.
e. N. Sanders.
The last witness examined in st. Paul
Vas Wastb Mr.; p; M zi Sanders demn president de- Of the
that he was a miner and distributor Of
coal. and had principal charge of that
company, d~isstributhIng coal in Minnesota.
and some in Iowa and northwestern IL
linois and Wisconsin. They mine about
ZOO, goo tons annually: He also stated
ley. Coal company in northern Illinois.
Is bituminous coal. He said that within a
luminous coal which he had furnished for
the northwest came from Pennsylvania
and Ohio, and that in recent years they
had difficulty in obtaining their supplies.
During the last two years it was almost
impossible to get anything like an ade-
quate supply. The requirements forstrans-
portation on the railroads from the east
have been so great that they have been
absolutely unable to furnish the motive
power to move he coal and the cars
themselves during h short period Of
navigation.
The following questions and answers
were especially pertinent:
@. Heretofore, prior to the year 1901.
how has 1t been with Illinois coal shipped
from the mines in that state destined to
points beyond St. Paul and Minneapolis?
A.. It a been almost impossible to
get 1t through on account of thef 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 90 through to the destination of
the coal, which necessitated transferring
It here into h 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, n whether that effect is
greater on Illinois coal than on eastern
coal.
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