The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-05
Railroad News
ROADS TO take
INVENTORY

Minneapolis Journal The trans
peftatien Industry of the northwest,
the railroad business, Ia going TO take
an inventory the like Of which never
was taken before, and the greatest
accounting and valuea estimating job
of record will start, at such time as
the Great Northern, NefthsTnftr Pacific,
Milwaukee, eee,s Omaha, Minneapolis
H. st, Louis, Rock Island, Burlington
and Great Western roads can get
valuation departments organised, 5 "a
The government Of the United
States, at a probable cost of $40, GOO, :
900 to S1b,6 0 900, over a period LOT
probably ten years, that Will be the
time needed, Ia going TO estimate the
value of the a4b,109 miles Of railroad
of the United States, But the rail-
reads are going to do It 'hFat,
Every Item to hs GsNnted, }t 4
livery rail ana spike, and every
car and wheel, and every pencil la
every efiee, ana the l~eeethntivea and
the little brass taeka, the round house
ana the fiVets, the eeah the paint, the
great crane that lifts an engine In the
sheps, and the grease that goes on the
axies of the hahdeaPs that the section
men muat use, WIN all be valued, and
every pen, pin and rubber band win be
counted, And they viii be valued
and counted by expert railroad men,
But the engineering valuations that
will tell how much the cuts and fills
have coat will be the hard ones
MINNEAPOLIS and st, Paul roads are
the aFst to act ia the matter Of inae~
pendent estimates. Already prominent
railroad operative and financial Of
aeiala have met and talked 1t over, It
iss substantially agreed that when the
Interstate commerce commission,
which purposes igheFing every exist
iag valuation and starting In to ind
fer itself every fraction that relates 10
the various RsadA begins It's work. the
reads that center in Minneapolis. will
themselves have their sWM valuation
crews at WeFk, f will eeSt the roads
a pretty penny. bat they are geiag 10
do it, What the railroads OF the eeaA~
cry may do aseat it villa have no e4-
feet IN the northwest
Vast Mileage Involved
Ii @as a STAGGERING Jeh for the
northwestern reads
The Great NegsheFM alone has nearly
$,098 miles OF road the Northern Raet<
ne $500 including Saaae under e@M~
stE2etlah, the Milwaukee, al a Syste@.
has $500 aafssS @ft#sseA about halt lis
in MINNEAPOLIS EeFEatSE% and includes
the Puget SeNsa eMteMSksas the SEQ
lfAe has &,Sea pafies not Including it's
Chicago division the eatkFe valuation
work of which will be handled fa@aa
MINNEAPOLIS the Chicago division he
nag possibly handled In part from Chi
cage The Chicago Great Western,
Minneapolis 81 ST. Louis and Omaha,
with Ass&Ss9 and l,&SS FaaAes GeSRee+
tfVeHM have about Saezha& their total
mAeag@ fm Minneapolis territory. The
RshfAtAsHeA and &s&& Island ~eakaa$f@as$
~ahtASa8h theN probably with be handled
fE@HA Chicago MISUNDERSTANDING aadRe-
aga near Minneapolis and the case Sa
the Rock EskaA& some recently aeq&He1
e8. HeEaaiRal B4@laea4y.
LEGAL heads of the railroads of Nina
Aeag@aBs ard ST.. Raaa have been dis
ess#kaE the aaAss@F tor several days
lit Mess said aatA@aEaSEseGN to-day thai
each read with make it's @WaA Nal&ataaa
@ssaEess. I was Be6ata@ 2a8e tAa& afeea
the WnRssea StatsS GsSszsa@aesas has
completed it's 3ge&e work and has NE.
Rgaaesa the Wah@atf9R on the roads, slAy
read that eMfFlEs Aa ~NalaasEeA hoo low
WiNI have THIRTY 4ays 8a which ss ahs
eaieeaHeae. UAhess ahaA road is RGeaar~
ed ia, come feaaRaaa width it's own
@sa#aes 10 @a#se4 THE a8aRes az tina
Government. lit with he iaA 81 bad posi-
bi1SIA. Hlea l&sa,1 HaesA SJAtA.