THB GUARDIAN. crrarmofrrrrrows, Parson rsnwaxn rsci-rim. January 3°. 19°.. ~ 3 asa L _ ==_ = iiiis iii iiiistiiiiiiii it @==‘='“°°‘t Rooiy 175 iHiliiHl lll.E_iNillliN llllilTilWiST O_|nta Bartlett 302 Keith S477 15 155 425 lil De\'il'a1. ikc ,382 Grand llarbor C183 Knox Are Lower Than Those of the Rivals ofthe United States. 1~i.........r_.i....io in Some instructive Tables illustrating the Compar- 'r....1..i.i,.., iii” ative Charges of Railways on Each Side ofthe ctw... __de___ Manilu Bo Mr. E. W. Thomson, the well known writer, contributor to the Boston Tran- script ot Jan. 0, the following article on freight rates lu the Canadian and Amer- ican West : Railway rates on wheat of the Canad- ian Pacific Railroad and Canadian North- ern are much more favorable to settlers than those of “the Hill system," 1. e., the great Northern, the Northern Pacilc and their leased lines. If freight rates were established accord- ing to geography, the Minnesota and D11- kota farmers ought to get their wheat hauled to lalie water considerably cheaper than the farmers of the Canadian West can. From the closely adjacent Canadian Lake Superior ports of Fort W’l1liau1 or Port Arthur the distance to \Vlnnipeg, Manitoba, is about 427 miles by the Can- adian Pacific Railroad. From Duluth to Grand Forks, N. D., nearly due south of Winnipeg, the distance is about three hundred miles by the Hill roads. The Da- kotau shipper at Grand Forks might therefore rcnionably expect a lower wheat rate to Duluth than is given to the Can- adian shipper from Winnipeg. But the W|nnipeg~Port Arthur rate is ten cents per one hundred pounds, while the Grand Forks-Duluth rate is fourteen cents per one hundred pounds. ills geographical position, more favorable by 127 miles, costs the Grand Forks shipper four cents per one hundred pounds l What does this amount to lu land valuesl If the estimate be on the pre- sumption that wheat farms near Win- nipeg and near Grand Forks alike will yield twenty-tive bushels of No. 1 to the acre, or say 1,450 pounds, then the 1Vin- nipeg farm is worth nfty»eight cents per year per acre more than the Grand Forks farm. Assuming that such land in those uss__ DIAMOND DYES If Your Toboggan Suit is Solled or Faded. _ -f71~.*"lf'. ` _. I -_ _ 7. . ii . .-q ' ` v _ ~../ ‘ ir _ _ I. J I fl _ _ V/1 __ T* /_ ` lf'-y _ f_ *K1 _ y rig; L " fax -_A Y f `\ 'C ` ~\ -ef 4 ' 5 P- W4 \ ._ \ Ti -‘ _ \ \ __ _` ii - 1. _ ` _ ____ :!~ 1.. _\ _‘ .__ ji __ `. `\§. *V \\_ Thousands who love the sport that toboggrming affords are now usng, Diamond Dyes to renew and beauti- fy last yc:1r‘s faded and dingy suits. l Diamond Dyes dye anything any color. The only warranted dyes in 1 the world. . the liberallty of the Canadian companies ian town just across the line from ` another. .rod 0 ) mo.: its oz E s., ‘ regions is worth only ten years' purchase of its income or its possible' rental, the Wi uniwg farm is worth $5.80 per ar re more than that of Grand Fotki; i. e if the Great Northern Company, which eurnod $12,808,608 net income for the year ending last June. and distributed $8,§73.97Il iii dividends, be not soon moved to imitate Anyone interested .in the subject can easily figure out the significance in land values of the following facts. St Vincent shippers, 363 miles from Duluth, have lo pay a wheat rate of fifteen cents per one hundred pounds. At Emerson, a Canad- S Vincent and -103 miles from Fort William by Canadian Pacific Railroad rail, the rate is twelve cents. The following table shows the respectlve_rates nt American and Canadian points not far from the boundnrylinc, and nearly opposite one wer U93 1 u sing nm :I U9 l io 'eg git' Can adlnn 2 (92 Stations ___ lmerson . _ . . _ _.403 12 St Vincent.3i`»’i 151 Gretna..____..~i9012 Neche _...$10515 Mordeu__.. __ .508 12 \Valhalla_ .397 151 Manitou .520 13 Hanueh....»i~l3 lil .sq 831145 oo 9.. (sa 1l¢\lf\(I (H1 ‘H1100 ations D. quoqa ‘napinkr _ _ els is some _....497 is Estevan .717 17 Avoca . . . . ,.610 25 sched nies: anrars Wrnrar Barns. Canadian Pacitlc Stations on Main Line: S’ E F€‘ 9 m E D' ._ Beausejour 390 Winnipeg 427 Bergin 433 Rosser 441 Burnside 489 Bagot 407 Brandon 560 Kcmnay 567 Griswold 583 Oak Lake 501 Klrkella 629 Fleming 637 Broadview 600 Oakshela 698 Qu‘Appelle 750 McLean T58 Mooseiaw 824 Roharm 832 Parkbeg 859 Secretan we .qqnmu ure-1159111711 ziciipnivlll P" °~L _<_i.‘-.:n;.r‘“ B “I1 i Floodwood 'iii Swan River 02 Holmfleld .....582 13 St. John.. _.459 17 1-2 _ Pierson _ .... ._ea4 re Mohair _....540 1e1~2 By way of facilitating the study of the _subject in Minnesota, Dakota and gonor- ally among the interested, the following _figures have been extracted from tho Couraarson or "Hier, Svsrrzl" AND CAN- mor; 'WQHM clog mor; Hmm Brripriiaur ‘Ulllilla 3105 mos; E spurred 001 Q .ra equi Qvoqm I1 E’5éZ‘iE’5i`~1`5’t3= 809 Swift Current 937 20 Leven 046 Maple Creek 1023 21 Kinoorth 1032 Kluinvie 1130 22 Tilley 1139 Qleichon 1211 f2l Namaka 1223 Calgary 1266 24 Greet Northern Stations (U.S.) Main Line: ‘s .rad our qe9llA\- loc Rugby 1'; lierwlcl: 131 17) Towner " Minot 5110 18 Ross filll li) 5156 \Vhite Earth 574 20 Tioga 582 21 _‘Rav 5111 22 Whetlock 501) Z3 Spring Brook 010 ‘Z4 Avooa 015 Buford ii-12 25 Northern Pacific Stations, Mein Line: H1015 PH U pm: ol 'Flin UQ 11101; so 1( 'spunod 001 .rad one: ';oai_|A\ ni ._- _- C Su Brainerd 10c S‘aples ith' Aldrich 15-1? 10; Vernrlale 150 N. Y. Mills Je. 178 11 Riclidale 183 Parham 180 111) Luce 1041 Oak Lake 2121 12 A-udubnn 217 125 Lake Park 223 13 Dale 220? \Vinnipeg Jc. 230 lil) Hawley 234 Muskoda 2367113 S’ockwood 2102 Mapleton 200 14 Grtene 271? Magnolia 200 14) lluifalo 202 Splritwood 338 15 Bloom $13! Jamestown Eldridge 360? Medina Crystal Sp'gs 390 t Dawson Steele 407 Geneva _ Driscoll 420? hlandan Sunny Side 400! Sedalia New Salem 485 Kurtz Glenullin 514 Richard ton Taylor 547 Gladstone Lehigh 5001 Dickinson Eland 570 i Belfield The tale of wheat rates on the respect- ive branoh railways is at all distances similarly and often still more amazingly in favor of the Canadian farmer. To av- oid woarying readers by long columns of place-names and figures a summary com- parison is here substituted. Account is taken of no branches of “the Hill system" except those north of the Gr eat Northern and of the Northern Paolllc main lines re- spectively. Only such branches can be regarded as entering into a sort of com- petition with the Canadian lines. But the south-spreading branches of the two main Hill roads do not give shippers more favorable rates than their north-gm ing branches. The Winnipeg Branch, Teulon, Emer- son, Souris and Lariviere branches ol the l anadian Pacific Railroad include seven- ty-six stations of from 430 to 565 miles dil- tance from Fort William. The wheat rate varies between ten and thirteen cents per one hundred pounds, according to distance. The only Great Northern branch (north of ma1uliue)which gives no any station a wheat rate lower than fourteen cents pe one hundred pounds is the Mahoning and Virginia branch of twenty-seven stations, all between fifty and 142 miles from Dul- uth. and all charged ten cents. The Napinka, Lytleton, Mlnnedosa, Yorkton, Brookdale, Estevan, Arcola, and Minlota branch of the Canadian Pac- ific Railroad includes ninety-three sta- tions of between 493 and 717 miles from Fort William. Their wheat rate varies between twelve and seventeen cents, ac- ‘cording to distance. On the St. Vincent, Pembina Mt., Park R. and Hannah, Lakota and Cando & St. John branches of the Great Northern are sixty-two stations of between 270 and 450 rnller from Duluth. The wheat rate varies between 14 and 17 1 2 cents por one hundred, according to distance. 349 1:.; eve ie are ici 412 17 iso ie 4110719 500 2195 542 20 555 zui see 21 585122 and the Jamestown-Denhotf-Leeds-Ee mond branches are ull between about 2.10 to rl istancc. 156 to .>i.» iniles from iluluih vilicsv wheat rate varies ` ‘> Main line the rntu is 25 cents per out 100 from Avocs, 1115 miles from Duluth to Buford, 612 miles. a wheat rate to Duluth or eastward in not given by the present circular ic agents. On the Prince Albert branch the Cari- adian Pacific Railroad tnlraii £1 cents per 100 pounds at four stations from 1,01! to 1,052 miles from Fort Williain. On the Edmonton branch the some company takes from 26 to 25 cents at eighteen stations varying between 1,307 and 1,458 miles from Fort William. It does not ap pear from the circulars that either line of the Hill system attempts to haul wheat to Duluth from points westoi Belfleld ou the Northern Pacific, 585 miles, 22 cents, and Buford on the Great Northern, 012 miles, 25 cents. The Canadian Northern rate from Fort William to Winnipeg, 430 miles is 10 cents, or the same as the C. P. R. rate be- tween the same places. Because the two Canadian roads give substantially iden- tical rates up to distances of 647 miles from Fort William, beyond which the Canadian Northern does not yet extend, it seems superiiuous to set out the C. N. rates more particularly. If land values were estimated solely by comparison of wheat rates to lake ports a Canadian quarter-section (100 acres) 430 miles from Fort William should be worth as much as an American quarter section seventy-six miles from Duluth, as both have :1 ten cent rate to their respective ports. By similar calculation on the basis of rates vary ing from 10 to 25 cents the values of quarter-sections, or farms of any other speciled area, would be as follows: Wheat Rate per 100 lbs. Miles from Miles from for Both FortWllliam. Duluth. Stations. Canadian land 133 U. S. land 04 11 cts. “ 489 “ os 12 “ H “ 175 13 “ “ 351! “ 182 ll " “ 620 “ 302 15 “ “ 4100 ‘ 383 1(l “ “ 750 “ -iso 17 “ -1 se-i “ 458 “ “ 1-159 “ 507 “ 1* 11:17 “ -'illii “ -1 1023 “ see “ °~ 1130 " sm “ °‘ 1211 “ 5119 _' “ c 12136 “ 1310 “ 1- 1:97 “ 1315 '_' “ l€)'KC».;, ;-'~3~=5‘Q’65$ Prima facie it would appear that the Hill system rates should be considerably lower than the Canadian for long bauls, because the Hill roads 'appear to receive much wheat at distances between 100 and 300 miles from Duluth, while the Canada- iari roads receive none at distances with- in 300 miles of Farr William. In fact, the American roads earning on"wheat from near their start at lake water exact much higher wheat rates than the Canadian roads which earn nothing on wheat for about 400 miles after leaving lake water. ui1.i\. w. ciiiisrs - cmiiiiii cunt lr sent direct to the diseased pans hy the improved Blower. Heals the ulcers, clears the air passages, stops droppings in the throat and picririannritly _curv-s Cnrarrh and ay Fever. Brow.-r The ninety-three Northern Pacific sta- an /iii denim. or nr. 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