The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-16
Minneapolis Says Small Towns
Get Equitable Rates.
BETTER THAN TWIN CITIES
Figures Showing the Schedules; From
Mankato to Points On the
Various Lines.
MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.l

Small jobbing centers in Minnesota
are on an even basis with with Mime
apolis and st. Paul in their dstribut-
ing rates, in spite of general impress
sion to the contrary.
The railroad and warehouse commits
sion has compiled table of compare
tive rates for use in its move to deduce
freight rates in the state. This shows
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, Mankato, st
Cloud, Crookston, Moorehead and Fer
gus Falls. For similar distances the rates
are usually the same. There are var
iations, but they go 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 distance covered, because the
Great Northern's short line rate governs
to Morris.
The table was compiled from the tar
ifs now on file with the railroad COM
mission. For each distance three rates
are given; first, the rate from the twin
cities to some station at about that dis
lance; second, the distance tariff rates
from the same 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
tributing centers, and are, as a rule
slightly higher than the distributing
rates.
Distributing centers on the Great
Northern, outside the twin cities and
Duluth, are Crookston, st. Cloud, Fergus
Falls and Moorhead. The first class rate
for a twenty-mile distance from these
towns is 10 cents. The rate from st
Paul to Andover, 10 miles, is also Il
cents, and the other classes run the
same, Ii, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4 and cents.
The lOO-mile rate from small towns
is Al cents, first-class, and on the other
classes, 35, %, 81, l6, 10, Ia, IL and 10
cents. Exactly the same rates prevail
from the twin cities to Melrose, loo
miles. At l20 miles the rate is As cents.
first class, which is better. than the twin
cities get to Round Prairie, III miles.
The Round Prairie rate is AZ cents. On
all other distances the Great Northern
shows the same rate. The 200mie
rate is go 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 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 cit
les. Their rate for 100 miles is Al cents
first-class, and the rate from the twin
cities for that distance is just the same
The 500 has no distributing centers
i'm Minnesota outside of the twin cities.
On the Milwaukee, Faribault is given
distributing rates. Faribault's first class
rate to Pennington, 33 miles, is "a cents
while from the twin cities to Eggle-
ston, 80 miles, it is % cents.
Here are some of the other compari-
sons made: