The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-18
RAILROADS WILL DO
EXPRESS BUSINESS
Fast Freight Service Will Be-
gin on Western Lines
GREAT PROFITS MADE
Express Companies Have Been Making
Too Much Money Out of the Rail-
roads and This VIII Soon
BE Stopped
GREAT PROFITS MADE


ness. Consequently the idea of running
rast freight almost on passenger train
schedule has been adopted to forestall
any sudden loss of revenue from this
source. Railroad commissions of vari-
Gus states, including Illinois, have decid-
ed that express rates are excessive and
the pending decision of the interstate
commerce commission is expected to be
along the same lines, for the rates no.
toriously have enabled express companies
to pay exorbitant dividends Predictions
ere made that one express company after
another will accept offers of purchase
from railroads, and within few years
cease to exist. One of the greatest gain
ers by this elimination process will be
the banks. The American Bankers as
ISOLATION for years has fought the ex-
press companies on the matter of cur
rency transfers, and this year inaugu-
rated vigorous effort to cut into The
business done In travellers cheques. The
system devised by express companies was
such that banks had to do most of the
actual work of transferring money, while
the express companies made the profits
The highest ground between the Rock
les dncluding the Black Hills) and the
<AiAC5 t4ohAcS ilds DeCOfHe the prize OF chi
cagoans, the highest summit of the
Ozarks at Windsor Park Ark, and
promptly has been appropriated to the
uses of golf. Already a colony of fam
lilies from Chicago, st. Louis and Fort
Smith have built summer homes there.
where they have a cross-country view
of twenty to one hundred miles. accord
ing to the atmospheric conditions. The
credit for the discovery goes to Frank
Coates, wealthy lumber dealer of Chi
cago, who in buying standing timber
found that the summit, with an altitude
of $500 feet above the sea, was higher
than any other point in the Ozark noun
tains. He promptly seized upon the fact
to establish a nucleus of a settlement
which bids fair to rival in character that
In the vicinity OF Asheville. " c., where
the millionaire estates of fillmore, Ar
den, Skyland and Resthaven are located
Being western in location, 1t will be west
ern also in being less exclusively exclu-
sive than those about Asheville and more
like those in the Berkshire hills of Mas
sachusetts, where President Taft spends
his summers. Nature equipped that par
ticular locality with all the modern re-
quirements of summering places, includ-
Ing mineral springs. and men have done
the rest. Some $4,000 has been expended
upon golf grounds, club house and things
while all the region roundabout is I'M
sophisticated Ozark country and people
Conveniences de luxe, housed however,
In rustic style, have appeared In the
heart of region where a porcelain bath
tub is an unknown luxury, and where
the hunter encountered the language and
customs of the typical "hillbillie." Sur
rounding this summit Mr.. Coates and his
business partners own an empire of vir-
gin timber, but the panorama of 1t goes
to every recruit to the colony OF Wind
sor Park Mrs. W. ]. Echols of Fort
Smith. said to be the wealthest woman
of Arkansas, and Charles B. Eads and
Joseph Reynolds and other Fort Smith
people, and Mr.. Coates and Joseph Cum
mings of Chicago are among the first to
put the landscape to their use.
The surplus wheat crop of western
Canada, upon which the cost of Uncle
Sans loaf nowadays depends, has been
reported to the Chicago board of trade at
round 150,000,0o0 bushels. which is some
what below the yield of last year The
crop estimates divide the wheat as follows
Manitoba, 2S,600,616 bushels; Saskat-
chewan, 65.25O,oOo bushels; Alberta, spring,
$40, oooo14 winter, 1,s55,7S4 The oat crop
for three provinces is placed at 1OS, 301 200
bushels; barley, 7,13770 bushels, and
fax, 7,72e.150 bushels. Saskatchewan suf-
fered less from drouth in proportion to
the area under cultivation than the 9TH
er provinces. William Pearson OF Winni-
peg, known as Last Mountain Pear
son." from having colonized the rich val
ley of Saskatchewan, of that name gives
the acreage in wheat at 4.s42o0o. The
average yield for the province will be
about 15h bushels, making allowance
for hail and late frosts. Canadian North
ern railway reports show that oats in
Saskatchewan have suffered more than
wheat. In Alberta conditions are sharp
ly divided into north and south. The
south has suffered severely from drouth,
and here are located the largest areas
of both spring and winter wheat Hon.
w. r. Motherwell, minister of agricul-
ture, of Saskatchewan estimates the
wheat acreage at 10000 in round num-
bers. although the actual area under
that grain is slightly larger. He dis
cards 100000 acres as unfit to be con-
sidered in a crop calculation on account
of damage through various causes For
the remaining 100000 acres he places the
average yield at B bushels and It is
in this manner that he arrives at a total
of 10000, 900 bushels.
Many business and political secrets
came to the surface In the heat pro-
voked by Colonel Roosevelt's snub to
beDator LOr1mer or Chicago, which did
not help any to quell the incipient row
in the Hamilton club. The efforts made
by Senator Lorimer in behalf of the con-
yicted banker John r. Walsh were among
them, 1t being related that those efforts
got the Rooseve1tian ire aroused to about
the same pitch as did the prospect of sit
ting at the same banquet table with Sen
ator Lorimer. Colonel Roosevelt. then
President, is said to have pounded his
desk emphatically and declared that If
he had his way the prosecution of Walsh
should have no let-up. The explanation
of the "grudge," which friends of the
junior Illinois senator assert prompted
the snub, was given by his Organ in
this way: TT began when Senator (then
Congressman Lorimer proved to be one
Of the few men at Washington with
sufficient courage to stand against Roose-
velt's attacks on the constitution. This
reached the breaking point when Con-
gresham Lorimer. at conference which
President Roosevelt had with the Illinois
delegation at the White House. told the
President that he would oppose his pro-
posal to put the packing houses of the
country under the absolute control of
the department of agriculture.
When II was all over President John H
Batten Of the Hamilton club gave his
views:
ut was inconceivable that we could
hold a Roosevelt dinner and NOT haya