Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
WILL STOCRMEN ASK REPAY?
Railroads Wonder il They Will Claim
Reparation for Excess Charges.
ALSO WHAT COMMISSION WILL DO
SO POPULAR IL One-Cent state Fair
Rate that Union Pacihc L. Put
10 ~ TO Assemble
Gers.

Railroad mon OF the vest are wondering
whether the cattle shippers will seek repa-
ration for the excess charges which have
been made on shipments OF range cattle
from Texas to wyoming. Montana, Me-
braska and South Dakota and also whether
the Interstate Commerce commission will
entertain such claims n they are made.
The commission has ordered a reduction
in the rates on these range cattle. effective
october Is, the cut amounting from ! cent
to s cents per hundred. On the basis OF
what was moved last year and this year
this reduction will amount TO about $l a
car to Montana and on all the shipments
will mean a reduction of $Go,OW n year to
the railroads. This year the railroads move
about 1900 cars of range cattle from Texas
TO Montana. The reduction also applies on
cattle shipped from the southwest to
Omaha. Kansas City, st. Joseph, st. Louis
and Chicago.
Cars Needed for state Fair.
So popular is the 1-cent a mile rate of
the Union Pacific for the state fair that
the operating department Of that ROAD Is
securing the whole system for cars IN
handle the business. when II was an
nouneed that the other roads would not
meet the cent-a-mi.e rate the Union Pacific
officials at once realized that they would
have an enormous business from such
competitive points as Grand Island,
Beatrice, Stromsburg, Kearney, Central
city. ST. Paul, wahoo, Yutan and Fremont
and a campaign was at once started to get
the necessary equipment, The Union Pa
cific does not meet the short line rate from
Omaha to Lincoln and will not try for the
Omaha business.
ubli to Inspect shops.
A. L. Mohler, vice president and general
manager of the Union Pacific shops has
decided to invite the general public OF
Omaha to inspect the new million dollar
shops of the Union Pacific at Omaha some
Saturday afternoon in October, as soon as
the shops are completed and the machln-
cry is installed. A couple OF months ago
the Commercial club made an excursion
to the shops and EXPLANATIONS Of surprise
we're heard on all sides at the enormity
Of the enterprise which is conducted in
Omaha and concerning which so little is
known by the general public. That all
may become familiar with the shops the
public will be invited to inspect them all
the way through, and MIR. Mohler will
have q large number Of guides to explain
the various departments
Road Int Yellowstone.
The government will expend $4,000 In
building a road from Cody. Wyo., into
park. There is at present
a good road there, which has a large
amount Of travel. A lone highwayinan
recently found a coach filled with people.
Jrhe entrance to the park from Cody Is
said to pass some, of the finest scenery
In America and is far superior In this
respect to the other entrances. The Bur
lington has a road into Cod and this
will make the third practical entrance
into the park. with this amour ex-
pended by the government the entrance
will be most attractive and should get
it's proportion of those going into the
park.
THE Union Pacific has had nearly so
per cent Of the Yellowstone park business
this year, which Is quite a gain in COM
parison to the 5 or 6 per cent we had
before the new line was built into the
park from the west" said w. H. Murray,
assistant general passenger agent OF the
Union Pacific. Saturday upon his return
from a trip through the park. 40, I
did not lose any money to the highway
man, although we were but a day ahead
Of the party which was held up. The
northern lines have not done any less
business than heretofore, but the business
has increased to a large extent and we
have gotten our share because Of the fine
new entrance to the park by the new line
through Yellowstone City"
beaver Stocks UD HIS Car.
D.. Glen Beaver, head of the home-
seekers information bureau of the BurI-
inEton, is now in the Big Horn basin with
the exhibit car Of that road, filling 1t with
the products of irrigated lands for the
fail campaign. An innovation will BE- made
this year and the car will be sent to the
fairs at Pueblo and Denver and into the
irrigated sections of eastern Colorado.
This is a direct challenge from the Big
Horn basin and the North Platte valley,
which are irrigated sections, to the irri-
gated sections of Colorado. Irrigation Is
highly developed In eastern Colorado and
the purpose is to show the Big Horn pro-
ducts to the farmers who are supposed
to pS familiar with irrigation which will
directly appeal to them. Experience has
shown that 1t is much easier TO sell ir-
igated lands to those who have practiced
Irrigation: The car will exhibit at the
: Colorado State fair at Pueblo, September
Is, II, Is, and -, at Colorado Springs,
? september IA and is and at the Interstate
fair and exposition at Denver, September
10. II, and 10. The car will then be sent
/ 10 boulder september q, Longmont Sep
TENDER p, Loveland September "a. Fort
Collins September 20 to 30. and will then
{ work toward Omaha where it will arrive
october 10. This car was visited by over
! 10000 people last year and the Burlington
! looks upon this advertising as about the
best II can put out to show to the people
r just h the irrigated sections OF the
west are producing.
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