The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-10-30

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sls 49,
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auMiseo Witnout very mucn pIesshs tnat
ne nau very AIseiy oetelmlneo the poucy
-. ..e .va1s; espee.any ene poilSy VI "a
senSS.aas shs mes. lbs was: noWeveI; ne
= eAp'aa ~ ,ateely5 que 70 tne 1act tnas
Juan VS. u tne Other+40lIeclof nao oeen
non -lesloent s's
- suit tor Keeps, ~ 8
Explaining how the Great Northern had
Mr.. HiN said that $500. 600 had been ex.
pended for. surveyinr alone as ne de.
sired tn ha certain that Ia was h,iliin9
his road ON the best possfbla locations.
He fironned In q. little side remark atgthis
! point by saying that while ridinx alonx
!. the Pannsylyania !, system once he oh.
! uarva.i = Sssnnrtio,, ~ t,ot sav.te,,, hain~
shuiitso me fo,,rfhs r,eht az wav ana he
"a IA. ssTs wanted ~. avoid all that sort n
fhins. 4, - go ~ go = ?
/. b The tra no ~ the ,vastor,, courtrv cor.
sisted n,ostiv ~ 1,,r,her an6 - NO. 90.
santiai fnr the Great Northern "a hanf1Ia
this IImba, - q vas ia do husiness at
gAI a "a a = NOS 10
:. hnndrad 'nonnss w,ich ~, vas q, nrohih;tiva
"I conferreI WITH .Ir,,ofar ~. ms ct,,rer.
and fhev Thought that ~ thew had rate
,.rfsek cent. thew could. .ser,l Htvy,h.ra e..t.
I knew thew conldn't do ~ with a rate
hiohar than k0 canta % mo mods q a..
cents. and the l,mher fra,a heran - do.
,,sIn1 ron;a,,, "
..Ip nrgsr - r,.r. lou rsts ~, ...+.
arm lumber shinments Il was essential ia
frst nave ., ,rarte,, snnovemsnt ~ 80 -. "a
nravert fha nacaaaitv ~ hringine, aynnt,,
cars veat IN shin the ,mu,i,ar n Is Uithtn
fonr vaars We mad sosdavelon.d THE trada3
and fr.flss with,s AiasEn .eyd' the -asastar,.
eastem goods fos. the mar4.eta az the orr
emit and tins "a keen a Inovamant ~
cars witch meant a si,fnnoant ~ I,,rohor
east again at = rate. maline the ahinnent
nossibie and nrofitahle. ''F'
.sWhat stens ala Won take +o secura
transportation across the Pacific. and
What relation did that have to vo,r mr.
chase ~ tha RurIinrton ROAD stociron
es[ed NJ Yornr
1--WE fonnd that the lumher sunn,v ~
thu United States east of the Rockies and
north Of the Ohio river was more and
more dependent upon the washington and
Oregon forests, and that the time was
rapidly approaching when the states
which were furnishing lumber to the
east FWOuAA' AOesS NAYS cNOu8A Au1uU6E AOH
their own needs (M1ch1gan, for instance,
now consumes more than she can manu-
facture). I was especially interested in
the lumber traffic. because II there was
no lumber for us to carry from the west
there was nothing at all for us to carry
on. our road. 4 saw that 1t was only a
question Of time when Washington and
Oregon would supply all the lumber of
the country. It is soon to be SO. In order
to have allow rate we must have large
: tonnage, and have markets to which we
could send anything made in the east,
and thus have a continual eastern traffic
westward. influenced the Japanese to
purchase trial lot Of American rails in
stead Of the Belgian and English rails,
and later induced them to buy American
cotton, on q 9guarantee that II It was not
satisfactory would pay for 1t.
1.-THE cotton trade has been growing
very rapidly ever since. We chartered
ships to take this cotton and these rails
to Japan. We can make q rate to Hong
kong which will enable the Minneapolis
millers to ship their flour to China II
they can get the Chinese trade" r..
9tfE Coal Supply. lI
- xo,.4 .a,,,,.an. :, a.,
meet to derive and have Won derived rom
the Burlington purchase in regard to the
supply of coal for the country traversed
by your line? ss
thought that on the west end they had
q local supply Of coal and on the east end
coal in the past has come from Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia and some from
Ohio. but now it was apparent that they
could no longer . rely on the previous re-
" Of vital Interest to use the supply they
the public as wei from the Illinois coal
fields. The grades Of the Burlington road