The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-20

will be more satisfactory next year, es-
peeially In North Dakota9 e.,
: Very much, 4 SSssr epliedH Mr.. Hill.
y Where traffic is HEAVIEST we started
last spring to build another line from
AnetaT to- Devils Lake. That would
give e. an alternate Line frem Devils Lake
70 Minneapolis and st. Paul. We also
started in Ito build a. double track from
Devils 1, Lake to Push as hard
as we could, we could only get to a.
point twelve miles from Devils Lake.
slts-was not a difficult thing, but the
men We're not to be had. This year we
employed great many Italians; paid
81, and f$2, SO "a day, but couldn't even
hold them think it is safeSt say
that we carried out west this year
Of that u.s. 900 over 5000 Or 900 at
work. I don It think we. ever had 1900
at work .atao one time, and the difficulty
OF securing labor to do the work is a
difficulty that this country has to meet.
We will have that line completed early
IN, the spring. That ought to- take care
of the addltional NOV ement there, MAX
Ing three times the present capacity.
Growth Of Northwest.
There is no place in the northwest
where IN twenty-five years the growth
has been as great as along the Great
Northern
MT. Hill seemed to take special pride
in the growth Of the country tributary
to his road. ~
He continued: 'sTake it in 1883,
we carried 34l, 100000 tons one mile;
in 1888, that is five-year period, 562,-i
100000; 1898, 1,093, 100000; in 1898,
1887 100000; in 1908, 5000, 100000. It
has almost doubled from 1898 to 1908.
3,606,000,000 to 4,933,O0O,OOO.
- Now, during the same !, period I will
give. the number Of engines and the
number of cars. From June 80, 1901, to
June 30, 1902, we increased from 476
engines to 81, or 976 per cent. From
June 80, 1902, to 1908, SIS engines. 1904
per cent; from June 30, 1908, to June
80, 1904, Is engines, 17.l6 per cent;
from 1904 to 1905 no new engines, for
the simple reason. that the traffic fell
off about 100000 tons, owing to the
crop failure. June 80, 1905, to 1906,
1889 per cent, so engines; June 80,
per cent. That is the increase during
the summer just closed in locomotives.
New Equipment.
:" Now as to the ears: June 80, 1901,
we had of freight cars 23,217: on June
80, 1902, 25,217; added 1900, with
capacity Of 1911 per cent. That is the
capacity Of the cars. June 30, 1902,
to June 80, 1908, we added 3,4S2, a ca
paclty,% or increase in capacity Of 21.75
per cent. June 30, 1903, to June 80,
1904, we added 1856 cars, with a ca
pacity of 1929 per cent increasea 1904
fn oil q
cent. That is the year where there was
a :. falling off Of about 100000 tons
actual freight; 1905 we added z2,219
cars, or .l0.41 per cent; 1905 to sl9O6,
5,897, or 27.49 per cent. E.s.;
Now, for delivery in 1907 we have
150 locomotives ordered. Last year we
had 95s news ones, but S Of them were.
double locomotives, 100000 pounds on.
the drivers, for use over heavy noun
tain grades. We have ordered 1000
large capacity, $4,000 pounds capacity,
boxears; l,00el00 90 00@pounds3eap opacity
coal and ore cars, and we are placing a
further order for an additional 1,OOO.o
Delays of Cars.
It has been testified" said Mr..
Lane, f:that cars have taken thirty
days to go from Fargo to Duluth. What
IS your opinion about such delays?"
There is no excuse for not moving
Mr.. Hill. 81 suppose only S to 10 per
cent are subject to unreasonable de-
lays; 80 per cent go thru in good time
I Two years. ago our average time
kon the 2,000-mile trip to the coast was
less than nine days. I think our whole
system will average i twenty-six. to-
twenty eight miles a day: =, -
: 55''I knew of shipment of a num-
Der OF cars Of -four that were Ito 90
cago in December. March .12 they
were still there. I was getting some
inside fitting and some furniture for
my house in New York the other day
from Boston. It took SO long that I
told the man to ship it by water; ship
it around by the Metropolitan steam
ers. He did some of it, but he had
some bedding and some mattresses. I
left New York on Sunday, and on Sat-
urday the man was down to the rooms
to- see me; I was confined to the room
with a cold, and he said that the mat
tresses had left Boston on the 18th Of
November and hadn't reached New
York on the 10Th Of December
n Questioned as Shipper.
AS shipper, what remedy. do you
suggestY'' asked Mr.. Lane, with "a
SMILE
Mr.. Hill was evidently surprised at
the question, but he had ready an
sWer: Raising his voice, he said:
= have a remedy. There is no
problem SO great as the one you are
FACING today. The people seem to be
finding themselves against stone
wall. In 1870 there were $4,000 miles
| of road in 1880 there. were 1851
miles. In 1890 the increase, was 93'671
per cent; in 1904 it was 219 per cent:
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