CONTRACTS, AGREEMENTS, ETC., AFFECTING BUSINESS WITHIN STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA. American Express company-Contract for a tonnage equal to 2,720 pounds carried 494 miles daily. The compensation is $1,041.67 per month, excess to be paid for at same proportionate rate. United States Postoffice Department-Minneapolis to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., $42.75 per mile per annum; Minneapolis to Fairmount, N. D., $47.88 per mile per annum; Fairmount to Oakes, N. D., $58.99 per mile per annum; St. Paul to Cardigan Junction, Minn., $81.22 per mile per annum. Company owns its own sleepers, but operates them jointly with the Canadian Pacific railway and Boston & Lowell systems, each road receiving mileage proportion of net earnings. Company owns and operates its own telegraph line. |