The Washburn leader., 1915-09-10
Another Hearing
Held Saturday
Satisfactory Adjustment of Lig1
mite Coal Rates was Made
at the Hearing.

railroad men, coal men and rail-
road commissioners who conclud-
ed their labo1s this morning at
% clock at the Mckenzie hotel
and there We're congratulations
and good feeling all around over
the conclusion Of an II hour ses-
sion on coal rates. There was
good reason for this because a
solution of the Ignite coal rate
situation had been reached and
all interests brought together in
a satisfactory basis for trans
porting coal to all parts Of the.
state at figure profitable to
the miners and reasonable to the
consumer.
1t will be remembered there
were some issues in the proposed
Ignite coal rate recently promul-
gated by the railroad commission
unsatisfactory to the carriers and
miners and as result Of repres-
entations that it was possible to
reach u more satisfactory basis
by another hearing in the matter
this meeting was arranged and
all concerned feel gratified over
the result.
The hearing began yesterday
afternoon in the senate chamber
at the capitol and was not ad-
journed until after seven o clock,
when an adj djournment was taken
for supper. At 8 80 p. M, the
hearing was resumed in the par
lors of the Mckenzie hotel, and
when final adjournment came all
the troubles had been ironed out
Throughout the two sessions a
spirit of give and take prevailed
and the new rate which will soon
be promulgated and put into ef-
. feet, will permit competition by
all the mines I'm the state in all
markets now developed, will en-
courage the growth Of the min
ing industry and tend to develop
the coal business in new terri.
tory. >
Under the decision of the
United States court there was
bound to be an increase in the
Ignite coal rate, but the railroad
commission and others present at
the hearing believe this has been
achieved in such a way as to
hardly aprreciable to the con-
sumer.
Besides the railroad commits
sioners there We're present at the
hearing the following coal oper-
ators and railroad men: T.,
Operators: President Truel-
son, Vice President Evesmith and
Manager Deiters Of the Dakota
Lignite Coal Co, Dickinson; III.
Blanhard, representing the con-
solidated Coal Co, Dickinson;
John Satterlund, Wash burn; w.
p. AIacomber, Washbnrn Coal
Co, Wilton; +. NJ. Truax, N 90
nan; IL. a. Gray, New Salem;
H. E. Soule. Of National Briquet-
ting Co., Kenmare; j. A. Mich
OILS, and r. Zimmerman, Medora.
Railroad men: Northern Paci-
fic was represented by Vice
President and Traffic Manager
Woodworth, Gen. Manager Ra-
pelje, Gen. Supt. Nichols, Supt.
Maintenance and Way Burt,
Supt. Employment Bureau John
son. Freight Claim Agent Horri-
gan, Division Supt. Berner, Asst.
General Freight Agent Burnham,
\ Asst. General Freight Agent Cap
ron, #. X. Young, chief clerk t."
Mr.. Nichols. The 500 Line was
rep esented by Vice Preside t
and Traffic Manager Martin: ',he
Great Northern by Assist ant
General Freight Agent Brown
! Bismarck Tribune, Sept. S.
From the above it looks like
the new rates were satisfactory
to all concerned, but It was u
different proposition when the
new schedule was received. In
1.-THE new mileage scale OF ignitt.
f rates for the state Of North Da-
, kota established by the N. D.
railroad commission September
4,1915, we find all short hauls
were raised about Is per cent.
The former statutory rate for 5O
miles was as cents. now it is 60
; cents; the 30 mile rate was 40
cents, now it is so cents. After
1 studying the schedule we can see
; that it is very satisfactory to
the railroad people but to no one
, else. From observations it seems
, that the railroads fixed their
own scale and we have to be sat
isfied.