Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-21
A PROUD RECORD FOR
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA
Address of President j. j. Hill===H0w Irrigation
Will Help and What Means are Possible ==The0ry
of Successful Farming and Mutual Dependence of
Farmers and Transportation Lines.

ness. no through or transcontinental
traffic. only the local train running
up and back, two trains day most of
the time-Larimore. 1857 900; Ink |
ster. $4,000: Conway, $4,000: Park
River, $4,000; Edinburg, $4,000; !
Milton. $92. 900; Osnabrock-many of
you do not know where it is-$1O5,O00;
Langdon, $157,0O0; Dresden from $17.-
900 to $6S.000 in four years; Wales,
from $4,000 to $4,000 in four years
Lakota. from $91 900 to $133. 900;
Bartlett. from $4,000 to $4,000;
Crary, from $45 900 to SIS 900; Devils
Lake from $4,000 to $32S,000. and
$4,000 of this in passenger traffic
the heavy passenger traffic of the
Great Northern System is not on Ell
ther of the transcontinental lines. but
on the local passenger train between
Grand Forks and Minot. this train car
rying more people and earning more
money than any passenger train on the
line and | am not sorry that 1t is your
good luck. Now Churchs' Ferry in
creased from $50 600 to $4,000. Then
coming up on the Cando branch where
the business is purely local-MaZa,
s42 900; Cando from $4,000 to $685.
OOO-and still when those good Dunk
ards came lots of people said they
were no good because they did not
come to town often enough for drink
of whiskey. Considine from $1,000 to
$4,000; Bisbee from $4,000 to $780,
900; Perth from $4,000 to $2S,0OO;
Rolla from $2S. 900 to $146,00O. Now
will get back to Rugby, $36, 900 to $62.-
600; Barton from $4,000 to $37 600;
Willow City from $3S,000 to $147 600;
Omemee, from $4,000 to $12S,OOO.
Now on the main line where the total
revenue last year was $4,000 it was
this year $135 900, that is at Granville.
Minot from $124 900 to 1891 900. Now
take Souris. little station northwest
of Bottineau, the first year the revenue
was $175.00 and the second year.
$2S9, 900 These figures are encourag
ing to me and they ought to be to you.
They mark growth that you cannot
find anywhere else in any state in the
union. And it did not come from any
fluke or boom. or from any other
source than the good Old mother earth
The people are well-to-do: l think
they will do themselves and their
farms Justice and all will be we'll with
them If they got their farms for $l.2o
per acre, or homesteaded or pre-e empt-
ed it, am glad of their prosperity, for
their land is worth $40 to $2S per acre
today and they won it fairly. With all
tnls growth the company gets just the
same return on our money that we did
before it. We get seven per cent on
our money just as we did before.
Secret of Growth.
If we wanted to raise 100000 it
would be simple thing to estimate
profit of one dollar per ton on what
you gave us to carry if you provided
one hundred thousand tons of freight.
but if you will give us two hundred
thousand tons upon which to raise that
one hundred thousand dollars, the rate
would be fifty cents per ton; and II
YOU should raise four hundred thou
sand tons in crop it would be rate OF
twenty five cents per ton. 1T is as SIM
pie as that We have been able to re-
duce your freight rate in thlrty-one
wears to less than third OF what 1t
was; saving to you, to the people
on our lines in one year OF $59,9OO ,O0o;
nearly sixty million dollars. And this
reduction in freight rates has been
brought about by increasing the vol
ume of traffic. That volume has been
increased by making such rates as
would enable shippers to develop new
lines Of traffic and the building OF ad-
dltional mileage that would create
traffic. To reduce the cost OF trans
portation in face of continual increase
in wages and advances in prices OF
material, the only way was to increase
the amount of work done by each train
and so to receive large increase for
the train mile. These figures appeal
to me by reason of their magnitude
and | am glad to tell you right here
that you in North Dakota are able 10
send your grain to market at lower
freight rate than they are able to IN
western Iowa took up the schedule
of freight rates of one of the transcon-
tinental lines south of us-One of the
| lines that struggled hard to get the
Northern Pacific because this country
was growing too fast-and found that
their rate is $lO6 for transporting a
ton of freight one hundred miles. Our
rate is $85 Take the big lines run
ming out OF Chicago don't care
which one you take-the Chicago and
Northwestern for instance. and you
will find that although an older line
than we are it is paying higher rate
of interest than We are or than the
Northern Pacific as well. | speak OF
that to show you that We mean what
we say. when we say that your interest
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