The Washburn leader., 1913-11-07
Big Saving In Cost
OF Iran!lspor
Dairy Products May be Ship
ped in Refrigerators That
( Boat Lines Must Furnish

quarters of q million dollars
to the producers of butter, eggs
and poultry.
The action, if successful, WOULD
require the boat lines operating
on the great lakes to install re-
frigerator facilities for the trans
portation Of butter, eggs, poul-'
try and dressed meats from Du-
luth to Buffalo and other lake
ports.
At present the boat lines re-
fuse to furnish such facilities: {:
The result is that all Of the traf-.
fic moves all-rail at q rate Of
$1.05 per 100 pounds from Du-
luth or the twin cities to New
York City, whereas the rate on
the boat lines for the same class
of traffic is IS cents per 100
pounds from Duluth, difference
Of 40 cents.
The case was brought by the
.Bridgeman & Russell Co. Of Du-,
luth, a central creamery but
every owner Of dairy herds and
flocks Of chickens, every co-opera-
tive creamery and private crea-
merry, and every man interested
in the development of the dairy
ing and poultry industries in the
northwest is as vitually interest
ed as the company in whose
name it is brought.
Seeing the prospects of Du-
luth becoming a great assembling
center for butter and egg ship
ments by water and the proba-
,bility5 Of great development, in
the northwest if the case is sue
cessful, the Traffic Commission
Of the Duluth Commercial club
has joined the Bridgeman &
Russell Co. in the preparation Of
the case. The commission re-
Gently won signal victory in
obtaining a reduction in the rail
and lake rates from the east to
Duluth, with consequent benefit
Ito all of the northwest and the
members of the commission have
high hopes that they will be
successful in the action now pen
ding.
On behalf Of the producers Of
butter, eggs and poultry in Min
nesota, the state railroad and
warehouse commission has inter
vened in the case, and undoubt-
edly many other interested par
ties will join in support of the
action.
The territory which would be
served by adequate facilities for
refrigerated transportation on tn
great lakes includes Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota and
seventeen counties in northern
Wisconsin. The territory does
not begin to consume its entire
production old butter, eggs and
dressed poultry and full 30 per
cent Of it, is now shipped out
Of the territory. OF the ship-
ments 10 per Cent 60 to the
markets at the east, Buffalo,
ladelphia, New York, Pitts
burgh and other cities.
Minnesota in 1912 roduced 131
100000 pounds Of h.ltter. Only
10 per cent of the amount was
.consummed in the state, and Of
the remainder, 20 per cent went
to markets east Of Buffalo. In the /
same year North Dakota pro-
dnced 13, ,9O6,244 pounds Of but
ter, Of which IL ,8O6,2A pounds
were available for shipment.
'SOutha s Dakota produced 20, 432,
$50 pounds Of butter, Of which
16, ass, ,O52 pounds were available
for shipnlent.
The seventeen counties Of nor
thern Wisconsin pro duced 25,555 !.
843 pounds, Of which q, ,259, ,OOOl
pounds were available for ship
11ent.
In the same year the egg pro-
Of Minnesota was ;0O5 1
cara of which 300 moved ont of i
tke state, and 300 carS o ponlt /
ware ahiipped from 1finnesote
Tie tonnage o ofs eggs \ and ponl
try motin form the other
tes involved = also large.
1t i not hard to figure out
the ef ffect Il the traf fffiic in ttliosei
pre- lcd duets moved to the ;east
ehe lake rather q tllai allssrsii 4 Il,