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WHY ST. PAUL DECIDED NOT TO
!. HAVE STOCK DELAY PRoBED. q
Move to Look Into Blockade Of Live
stock Shipments quietly Stopped BE-
cause It Might Expose the Weakness
Of South st. Paul as Packing Plant
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st. Paul and Swift interests are still
laboring day and night with j. Ogden
Armour at Chicago, to secure the Ar
mour s Co. packing plant for South ST.
Paul. One of the characteristic ST.
Paul methods Of campaigning has come
TO light IN the recall Of subpenas for
81 bearing ssiai before the state railroad COM
which the stock ~ shipments aeats to to
South St. Paul are subjected.
About three weeks ago leading rail
road men all over the state were given
urgent invitations to attend hearing
which was ordered on complaint Of live
stock men who objected to the notorious
delay Of twenty-four hours in getting
stock thru to destination. Suddenly
notices were received from the commits
SION stating that the complaints had
been withdrawn.
It is entirely obvious to live stock
men in the northwest why the com.
plant Of coterie Of st. Paul stock
men was withdrawn and the hearing
SO hastily called off by the same inter
ests.
Inaccessible to Ranges.
The prime objection to South st. Paul
as q live stock market and location for
packing house industries, in addition to
the fact that it. is subject to inundation
from the Mississippi river, is its in
accessibility from the northwest ranges.
It is stated that a stock grower could
sell his live stock in the New Brighton
market and get half way home again
before he could get his cattle thru
from the same initial point to the St..
Paul market. The. delay is charged by
Western road, whose owners are allied
with the South st. Paul packing insti-
tuition. Gi Fl
1t was discovered very quickly that
instead Of advertising South ST. Paul
by the announcement that radical mea-
sures would be taken to correct rail-,
road transfer conditions, the promoters
of the hearing had taken action which
was very inopportune in the present
status of the Armour negotiations, and
therefore the scheme was nipped in the
bud by the wise ones.
The Soft Pedal. Il.
So closely was the matter closed up
that the abortive hearing never re-
ceived! publicity, and it might never
have been known that st. Paul freely
admits that the transfer. facilities. to
the 'stockyards at South st. Paul are
so inadequate as to require adjustment
by the railroad commission, had some
one not "leaked. ''55S<s}y
If the people Of the: northwest, par
ticularly the stockraisers, could Under.
stand that st. Paul in It's desire to
cripple minneapolis is taking measures
that4stick the knife deep into north
western prosperity and progress, it is
probable that the city would find it I'M
profitable to continue the pernicious &C.
tivity. s',5z y ~, '>,:7 -
nThis is the greatest thing that has
ever happened to the northwest in my
memory said q man today who con.
trolls enormous interests il the north
west, speaking Of the Armour deal for
the estab lishment of a northwestern
plant. "ItSmeans q great deal to us,
tosthe farmer and to everybody az ad-
nit that I have a strong fancy for
Minneapolis, but Iaconsi der tits 8 north
western: proposition and not local to
Minneapolis or to- the twin cities. IF
the farmers Of the northwest realized
that to: stick the knife into Minneapo-
lis, st. Paul would cripple. the whole
northwest T think it would be the
clearest argument that could be pre-
scented in favor of the present Armour
plan. South ST.. Paul is entirely made
quate for the purpose, but rather than
lose the industry to that point. st. Paul
apparently takes the attitude that it
is South st. Paul for the northwest or
nothing.' *. ~ 49,, ... ~s-.s..s 80. =