People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — RATES CUT DOWN. [ARTICLE]

RATES CUT DOWN.

Minnesota Railway Commission Issues an Order That Will Help Farmers. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 12.— The railway companies of Minnesota have been given a disagreeable shock by the state railway and warehouse commission, which has issued a general order cutting rates on all grain 15 per cent. The decision was in the case of Elias Steonerson, who asked that the Great Northern railway be compelled to lower rates from Polk county to Duluth and Minneapolis 33 per cent. The commission took into consideration the fact that wheat had fallen largely in price, and, on the other hand, that railway earnings had largely diminished and split the difference, giving the farmer and the railway company each half the benefit. Representatives of the railways say the cut will bankrupt three of the largest grain-carrying roads in the state.