Good Old Days: Sept. 7, 2017

8 years ago

The Commoner

Sept. 2, 1892

It is understood in railroad circles that the Union Pacific has notified the Northern Pacific company that they will hereafter charge $1.50 per ton for switching car-load shipments of wheat arriving at Portland over the Northern Pacific to warehouses and docks located on the Union Pacific's tracks at Albina, says the Walla Walla Union-Journal.

This is doubtless done in order to prevent the Northern Pacific handling shipments of this kind, destined to Albina, via their lines, thereby giving the Union Pacific a monopoly of the business.

However, the North...