The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-18
TRADE IS MOVING
FROM PITTSBURG
Travelling Man Says Trend of
Business Is in Opposite
Direction.
SAULT STE. MARIE REGION
is COMING TO THE FRONT
Dear, Dirty Pittsburg" Prom
iSeS Soon to Be Dis
mantled.

Bert kenaston OF the Minneapolis
Thrasbing Machine company is n guest
at the linutsford, and has had unusual
good fortune In placing big orders in
Utah. which means that there must bo
large harvests coming, for men do not
buy these great, complicated things for
toys
The house deals in agricultural lmple-
nents in general. and Mr.. Kcnaston re-
ports an unusual demand In Utah for tho
classes of implements used In harvesting
operations. Speaking OF things I'm Minno.
sota, he made the following extraordinary
statement
Center of Trade Moving.
1T Is a foregonc conclusion that the
great trend OF the iron trade that has
made Pittsburg and Allegheny City and,
In fact, all OF the western or coal region
OF Pennsylvania. the wcalthiest manufac-
turing district in the world, is about to
be changed, and go right tho other way.
You Will recall that when the great Me
saba Iron range. just north OF Duluth.
was discovered, IT gave great Impetus
to the settling up OF that town, for IT
meant unlimited shipping, and all that
stands for Ii was proposition then Tor
moneycd men, whether II was cheaper to
take the ore from the head of Lake Su-
perior TO Cleveland or bring PennsylVa-
MIA coal from Cleveland to Duluth.
Scotchman Solved 1t.
"A 'Canny Scotchman solved the prob
lem I'm favor OF Cleveland and the coal
region by planning and building turtle
back Iron orc boat capable of carrying
1900 tons Of ore and practically unnSSallT-
bic by any sen known on the lakes These
iron boats were taken In tow by powerful
boats. themselves loaded with ore, and
n tow meant some 1000 tons of ore in
one delivery. The turtle backs only re
quired three men 10 steer them, perched
on a high platform at the stern and who
were fed by passing buckets OF food from
the steamer down the tow lines TO each
barge,
Cheaper Proposition.
For some years economy In transporta-
tlon favored the southerly trend to Cleve-
land and Pittsburg, but now II Is con-
Ceded that IL would be cheaper and hand
Ter 10 tow Pittsburg coal from Cleveland
TO Duluth, and use 1t TO mako the ore OF
the Mesada range into iron at Duluth.
When this comes to pass. and II IL In
the near future. Just think what IL means!
All the gigantic plants that have made
the vicinity Of Pittsburg the greatest
wage-earnlng center In tho world. VIII be
tronsplanted to Duluth. and what has
held dear, dirty Plttsburg' for hundred
years In the lap OF luxury will be trans
ferred to the great iron regions OF Mime
sofa.
Factor In Change.
"A powerful factor In this change of
base Is the great, new locks at the site
OF the old Sault Ste. Marie lock at the
head of Lake Superior. Where the old
lock took two or three ships at each
flooding, the new lock Will take ten, and
an ordinary tow of Il steamer and three
barges cau be locked in half the time
previously consumed I'm locking one vcs-
sci
''I have heard II said that the iron ore
supply OF Mesaba was about run out /
cannot understand such a report. Tho
mountain is miles long and half mile
wide, and runs over many miles OF ground.
and Is actually incXhaustible Our busl-
ness men In Minnesota know this and have
grants. and where the lead Of iron ore
crosses these lands they have taken such
lands of the market
To Reorganize Trust.
There Is pending. soon TO be consum-
mated. a reorganization of the great steel
trust, and Hill and his interests will dom
mate tho new deal They have already
leased all the iron ore land In the great
Mesaba range, and that insurcs the
change OF front ] spoke Of.
1T Will bring 10000 men into Mime
sofa and necessitate the transplanting OF
so 100000 worth Of stecl-malSing machin-
cry. 1t is thought, too, by wise men that
such a move Will act as deterrent In
future threatened coal and steel strikes,
inasmuch as that when one Is made Who'll
ly dependent on the other. II will not pay
to ship coal only from the PittsburR pools
the miners and steel workers will count
the cost before precipitating a strike.
Will Enhance Values.
such a revolutionary step will natur-
ally enhance values at Duluth and tribu-
tary points. while 1t must weaken values
In and around the present steel ccnters.
Then also what the Pennsylvania Cen
tral and Baltimore q Ohio hauled to tide
water. or In transit to native market
Will GO over the Northern Pacific and
that Is what Hill is after. There are sug-
eested details In this more than | do not
speak OF, because they arc so out of the
ordinary as to challenge belief. That
Pittsburg pool coal Will go north inside
OF year Is a simple truth.
Nervousness and Nerve.