The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-12
SQUARE DEAL TO
SMALL CENTERS
GET AS Low DISTRIBUTING RATE
AS TWIN CITIES.
Railroad Commissions Comparative
Table Shows They Fare as Well
According to Given Distances Same
Basis Used in Making Rates for
Twin Cities and Other Distributing
Centers.

Small Jobbing. centers in Minnesota
are on an even basis with Minneapolis
and st. Paul in their distributing rates,
IN spite of a general impression to the
contrary. ST..
The railroad and warehouse commits
sion mas compiled a table Of compare
tive rates for use in it's move to reduce
that the existing rates for shipments
out Of the twin cities are on the same
basis as distributing rates from the
small centers, such as Faribault, Man
hato, st. Cloud, Crookston, Moorhead
and Fergus Falls. For similar dis
tances the rates are usually the same.
There are variations, but they 90 both
ways, and are because of competition
with a short line. For instance, the
rate from Minneapolis to Morris over
the Northern Pacific is low for the dis
lance covered, because the Great North
ern $ short line rate governs to Morris.
The table was compiled from the
tariffs now on file with the railroad
commission. For each distance three
rates are given: first, the rate from the
twin cities to some station at about
that distance; second, the distance tar
lf rates from the seIle distance, and
third, the distributing rate from some
smaller town for the same distance
Distance tariff rates govern between
towns that are not recognized as dis
slightly higher than the distributing
rates.
G. N. Distributing centers.
Distributing centers on the Great
Northern, outside the twin cities and
gus Falls and Moorhead. The first
class rate for twenty-mile distance
from these towns is Is cents. The rate
from st. Paul to Andover, 10 miles, is
also IS cents, and the other classes
run the same, IS, 10, s, g. 5, and 3
cents.
The 10O-mile rate from small towns
is Al cents, irst-class, and on the other
classes, IS, 27, p, 16, Is, IA, II and 10
cents. Exactly the same rates prevail
from the twin cities to Melrose, 100
miles. At 100 miles the rate is As
cents, frst-class, which is better than
l21 miles. The Round Prairie rate is
At cents. On all other distances the
Great Northern shows the same rate.
The 20O-mile rate is 60 cents for small
centers, and that is the rate from the
twin cities to Pelican Rapids, 200 miles
A similar showing is made on the
Northern Pacific, but Morris and towns
on that branch get a lower rate from
the twin cities because of the Great
Northern s short haul to Morris. In
other places the distributing centers of
st. Cloud, Fergus Falls, Moorhead,
Crookston, Brainerd and Thief River
Falls fare just as well as the twin
cities. Their rate for 100 miles is Al
cents, frstclass, and the rate from the
twin cities for that distance is just
the same.
The 500 has no distributing centers
In Minnesota outside of the twin cities
On the Milwaukee, Faribault is giver
distributing rates. Faribault's first
class rate to Pennington, 33 miles, is
"a cents, while from the twin cities tc
Eggleston, 80 miles, it is 25 cents.
Rates on the Milwaukee,.
Here are some of the other compari
sons made: