From: Wally Armstrong armst101@aol.com
Location: Monroe, WA
Date: 10/16/01
Time: 12:48:56 AM
Diane -- I have heard a lot of stories about that and even in Gilmers "Death of a Business" there was no mention of shipping of anything other than on trucks. An article in the October 24,1893 Red Wing Daily Republican indicated that the "Akron, Ohio people" had an agreement with the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad to haul there stuff into the Twin Cities. It would cost more for Red Wing to ship by rail into the Twin Cities that it cost the Akron people which would have allowed them to undersell Red Wing. An agreement was reached with the M & St. L and that got the stoneware moving by rail. There was a lot of of people moved out to the Pacific coast durring the Second World War and they brought a lot of Red Wing with them. There wasn't a lot of large stoneware, usually no bigger than 25 gallon. There is quite a few crocks in the 2 to 10 galon size. There is quite a bit of Art Pottery and dinnerware that must have come west during the War. There just isn't much about how Red Wing was shiped.