The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-11
Say That Loads to Bemidji Must Be
Cut in Half Because of Poor
Highway.
RAILROADS FIGHT THE CHANGE
Maintain That Station Project is I'm
practical From Operating
View Point.
Nymore Hearing Points.

l. The average team can haul
twice the load from the country to
Nymore that it can from Nymore to
Bemidji, due to the bad road from
Nymore to Bemidji. -
2. Nymore pays at present about
$4,000 a year in freight bills. A sta
ton or stations at Nymore would
take this business from Bemidji.
3. Farmers in the towns Of FROM
and Bemidji can make three or four
trips to Nymore where they make
two to Bemidji because of the condi.
ton of the Nymore-Bemidji road.
4. From the Nymore postoface to
the M. and I. freight depot in Be-
midi is 6,103 feet; to the Union de-
pot, $500 feet; to the 500 freight
depot, 7,156 feet; and to the Great
Northern depot, 1901 feet.
5. Nymore is an incorporated VIII
lage and as such has a right under.
state law to railroad stations.
6. Any depot in Nymore which
would not interfere with the inter-
locking system, would have to be
placed nearly as far from the Nymore
postofice as the Bemidji Union sta
ton is at present.
Making their case on the prima
facie fact that teh village is incorpo-
rated and so under state law has a
right to railroad depots but strength
ening it with citation of other rea-
sons why Nymore should have it's own
depots, citizens of that town yester-
day afternoon had hearing before
the state railroad and warehouse COM
mission. ..-=..
Witnesses were introduced who
testified that the village had been
incorporated for nine years but that
all shipping had to be done through
Bemidji. It was pointed out to the
commission that the merchants and
residents of Nymore are under han
dicap by reason of a charge of fifty
cents load on hauls from Bemidji
and that because of the condition of
the road, loads between Nymore and
Bemidji had to be cut in two.
Evidence was also introduced to
show that in Bemidji there is no
place near the freight depots where
wood can be piled SO that it can be
shipped in car lots. It was also stat
ed that when car lot shipments were
made over the 500 from the Nymore
spur or over the NJ and I. that the
shipper had to come to Bemidji to
bill out the car.
O. J. Tagley testified that in his
opinion the freight bill paid by Ny
more each year amounts to about
$4,000 and could be increased two or
three thousand a year if Nymore had
a depot He admitted that il the
road to Bemidji was In such a condi-
ton that hauling would be easy, that
a large part of the cause of complaint
would be eliminated.
In behalf of the railroads, evidence
was introduced that all lines had ,
made heavy investments in Bemidji
interminals, not expecting to be put
to the expense of separate yards at
Nymore as the two are SO close to-
gether. 1t was pointed out that the
500 and NJ. and l. have capacity for
twenty years ahead and that the
Great Northern will have as soon as
the new depot is built here.
The railroads also showed that the
[nterlocking system, which automat-
[cally closes two roads while the
third is using the crossing, repre-
sented an expenditure of $4,000;
and that il depot was placed where
the Nymore people want 1t, that two
roads would be blocked from the
crossing each time the third WAS do
Ing station work. -
w. H. Gemmel. general, manager Of
the NJ. and L, stated that In his opin-
lon, q depot In Nymore would not
CONTINUED on last pase,l