The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-30
SHIPPERS WILL
HOLD RAILROADS
Z, M.
INTEND TO COLLECT FOR DELAY
IN HANDLING SHINGLES.
Failure to Supply Cars Has Held Up
a Thousand Car Loads at Minnesota
Transfer, for Which custoTers Are
Waiting Impatlently- Company Re-
: fuses to Heed Rush Instructions.

Dealers in red cedar shingles are up
in arms over the situation at Mime
sofa Transfer. which has reached
point almost beyond their endurance.
No less than 1,100 cars of shingles are
unloaded there, and hardly more than
100 cars Of them are unsold. The rest
were sold before reaching Minnesota
Transfer, and reconsignment orders
given the railroads. The transcontinl
entail lines will not send their cars off
their own trackage and as the connect
ing roads have not furnished the cars
to reload the shingles, they have been
unloaded, without any authority from
the shipper and have been waiting for
weeks or months for cars to be supplied.
Retail dealers to the east and south
are clamoring for shingles which they
bought from one to four months ago.
The worst of it is that the oldest orders
are being held back by later ones. Cars
first arriving were unloaded at dis
lance from the track, and later receipts
were piled in between the first shingles
I came in November cannot be shipped
till the others are out Of the way, and it
is only once in a while that shipments
are made at ALL The Minnesota Trans
fer Railway company has issued an or
der prohibiting the acceptance Of any
rush reloading Instructions, and say
that the cars unloaded will have to take
their turn as they come to them. This
results in some queer incidents. One
dealer sold shingles to two dealers in
the same town. 1.-THE one who ordered
first was in a hurry for his shingles,
while the other put in an order much
later without any rush instructions. The
late order has, been filed, but the rush
order is still waiting. IS ~
One prominent, local dealer said to
r h u o u rn.a /: HWe have notified
all the railroads which have failed to
furnish equipment and move our stock
that we,will hold them responsible for
any loss we may suffer from the delay,
| whether from cancellation Of orders or
any other consequence. We will Ger
tainly hold the roads accountable. We
have been getting the worst Of it all
along, and 1t is about up to the Trans
| fer people and the railroads to neglect
some other branch Of business tempora.
rily, while congestion Of stock, unloaded
without authority, isSbeing forwarded.
t'The delay is making us an immense
amount Of trouble with our customers
and that is the worst feature. How.
ever, dealers all have considerable
money tied UP in this stock at the
Transfer: We have about $25,ooc
| Jnefe bringing no return ana no dSSuI
ances Of relief have been given us. One
car we had occasion to look up today
was shipped from the mill Nov. 3. We
sold it in transit and filed recohsign
ing order Nov. II. It arrived Nov. IS
and remained in the car till Nov. 81
The connecting road had furnished NJ
car to receive the shipment, SO the shin
! giles were unloaded then, and have beer
in pile ever since. We have no mean,
Of knowing when it will get started fol
its destination, and under the compa
ny IS recent order 1t is no use trying tx
rush SHIPMENT Az Is.