The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-23
TERMINAL PROBLEM
CONFRON7S ROADS,:
CHAIRMAN ASSERTS.
Situation at Duluth, Twin Cities
and Chicago Is Alarming,
Mosher Points Out
COME ON SPECIAL TRAIN
Governor Shafer Welcomes the
Board on Behalf Of State;
Reviews Development
COME ON SPECIAL TRAIN

Crop movement and not acreage
production was the situation which
confronted the Northwest Shippers
Advisory board 1t It's meeting here.
today. Curtis L. Mosher. general
chairman. told the conference Of the
organization at the opening session
this morning in the City Auditorium.
He stressed Great Lakes terminal
conditions as the big problem.
The meeting was called to order BY
Chairman Mosher at $50. About 100
members and visitors had registered
meanwhile with the secretary. OF
these, about 80 came In on the North
crn Pacific special at . o'clock,
headed by Roy w. Clark. assistant TO
the president. There were 10 cars
in the special and. after dropping
one car here, the remainder Of the
train went to Mapdan and parked Tor
the day, to leave from here at 7:20
this evening on the return to 6t.
Paul. One car was put on at Fargo.
Yeunk Reviews TranSpoFtatto0
After Chairman Moeher had called
the meeting to order. the welcoming
addresses were put on. Q. L. Young.
city attorney. spoke for Mayor A. =.
Lenhart. He contrasted present. Day
Transportation with the launching OF
La Sales rude boat on Lake Erie In
the days Of the French explorers Of
America and with the first run q
the Tom Thumb engine on the Baltt-
more and OHIO railroad in the early
sos, while the spirit Of Darius Green
and his flying machine had developed
into iindhergh's Spirit Of st. Louis.
This, he said. may al be preliminary
to the day when airplanes will trans.
port freight, operated. not by pilot
but by . radio operator sitting IN an
office. And In the form Of power.
freight may be transmitted from the
mine to its destination in the future
instead Of moving BY rail- IN the form
Of fuel.
Chairman Mosher responded with
the statement that coming. here was
due to the recognition that out here
in this country the real transporta-
tion problems were thickest.
Shafer Contrasts East.WeSt
Governor George F. Shafer vel
coined the board on behalf OF the
state. He reviewed economic, agri-
cultural and industrial development
IA the Northwest. as he had come to
realize them after . trip through
New England last week. The prod.
ucts Of agriculture must become the
backbone Of oil transportation out
here, he said, as the East Is not IN
agricultural terrain, but must remain
the great industrial section Of the
nation.
Chairman Mosher then delivered
his review to the meeting. He said
the big problem before the board u
the terminal situation at Duluth, Su-
perior and the Twin Cities. AZ be
explained this he said:
Terminals Are Crowded
THE working capacity Of the pu-
luth.superior and Twin Cities ter
minals, as shown by = recent careful
recheck, was IS 500 900 bushels. These
elevators held at the middle OF this
month 53,22S.0 900 bushels Of grain on
hand, and had available untitled space
Of only 32,260, 900 bushels. At the II
other port and terminal centers In the
United States approximately the same
situation existed At Chicago the avail
able terminal space was more than
half filled. and Chicago had not yet
felt the full effect Of the heavy move
ment Of the southwest crop. For the
United States Is 4 whole the working
capacity Of the port and terminal ele-
vators Is 259, ,2lo 900 bushels, In which
Ct the middle Of the month there wa
held on hand III ,2l3.Oo0 buahels, leav-
iug IN available untitled space Of 49,
O05 900 bushels with which to meet
the requirements Of the current crop
running to several times that figure.
Local elevators were never intend
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