, 1873-03-06
The Duluth Docks Fo11y---
Buying Up News =. - -
papers.
What Minnesota Business Men
Think Of the Road.
WHO Buy tho Donds7-. Dondhollcrs'
Sccurity---Tl1o Road "Allead
of Tlme.'s

t'oh oompany WAS 1ormod. Bill King, tho fa-
moua lobbyist, who has dono 10 much for tho road
among lila friends in CongreRe, was at tho lead
OF 1t. Tho limo Of tho road, cast OF Brainord lies
through n level country, covered, In groat part.
by timber. Tho timber ia small, bolng about tho
right alze for oroBs-toa. 30 you will understand
that tho cost Of construction waa not excessive,
Tho Construction Company built tho road In
winter. :iho ground was frozen, mnrslos, swa.npB,
and a!l, into aolid. nnyiolding chunk Tho TICS
orly Yut on, spiked down, aud the ro4a d.
clarcd to be " built" It waH very nice, fndood.
Tho bod waa solid, tho rails smooth and tho cars
rnn well oyor It, Tho CONSTRUCTION Company
was pleased, tho'railroad company waB ploasod,
aud gonoral happinoss peryaded all circles. But
spring came tho ground thawed tho marshes
wero roioased from thor Icy fottora tho swn1nps
pcepcd up through tho leo tho rains doHcended,
aud tho small floods camo, and what D. road |
Tho bed WAS sunk in aome places, and ratsed up
at others. Tho tics aunk under the weight Of d
train, and at zach end OF eaoh tfo waB n puddle.
In places tho truck disappeared from Wow on
things was deplorable. The roal could not DO
operated.
1t was plain, very plain, that tho Construction
Company had not built flrat-claas road. Twas
out Of tho ground. =.
Well, by some sort Of q hocus pocus, tho rail-
road company, through its ongineore, was in
duccd to rceoiyo tho road with m abatemont Of
Construction Company is not known but so far
Us tho public can 300, thoy got the road OF their
hands at TINT figure. Nov, mhrlyou IT cost the
Iailroad company, 100000 to put tho rond in
tho Construction Company. They arc at work
at it Till this day, driving pl1es in soft marshes,
trying to find bottom, and at some points ohnng-
ing tho road bod for considerable diatancos.
Of twelvo mon olearod ovor s100, 600 eaoltl
But that WAS not all Of thespon. They olccted
United statoa Senator, William Window. VIM
dom came hero d smooth-facod flodgling Of the
mate tact Of working wires, rather than BY Ills
talentB, Inns succeeded in reacAng tho Senato
| He iB creature Of the Northern Pacific Com
pany: Il fa not disputed but that ho owes his
rings. His pamo beautifully appears among tho
| list Of Directors. It was Important that tho
Company should have one Of their Directors in
tho aonato. It will bo moro Important, nfter d
| ornment subptdy. It is reported that Window
has sa0 600 stock in tho road. at NIL oycutH, ho
| is Director.
30 you will SEQ tho Importance and slgni1i-
gaign tho Daily Press Of ST. Paul, the loading
| Republican nowspnpor. was a little luliewarm on
| Window. They did not rush up to the scratch
beautifully, with their faces wroathcd in tho
smiles # # rejoicing. Intimationa wero thrown
Minnoaotn, boBidea Window, capable Of repro
eonting the State in tie Senate. This would
never do, and tho Press must be uonciliated. So
IN equal share in tho concern With tito rest,
ono-twontioth intorost. Then tho paper camo
up to tho work amilingly. Wtudom was eloctod.
Tho nhaTe In tho Construction Company noted
tho paper largo amount. Tho shcot has beon
worry loyal to tho road aud all concerned over
ei1ico.
for tho railroad company, aud for my other
years Postmaster Of tho House Of noproaenta-
tiTos. Ho went in poor, but is now rich. He
has roaped tho reward of boing on confidential
terms with momborg of Congress-. He knows
where Bill is known. tho bost, that ho actB al
sort Of middle man, and receives commissions
both ways.
DULUTH DOCKS.
In that Htupendous fraud, tho Duluth dockn,
and In fancy buildings and unnecessary "im-
proyemonts" nlong tho limo, tho Company have
sunk q round half million Of dollars. The great
docks ut Duluth wero Htupendoua folly. How
much thoy cost iB not known outside tho ring
but the amouut ia eatl,nnted al the way from d
qunrtor to half u million. trhia Wholesale OK
| pondituro when it WIS not needed caused tho
Company to bo crampod Inst fall, and the only
thing TINT Haved thom was q brisk aale Of honl6.
They have now cut down expenditures oil along
the line, and tho thing is operated with groat
show of economy, but It Will never 60 through
to the Pacitlo upon ita present basis. 49,.
DUYlNa UP NEWSPAPERS.
Tho grcatest efforts have boon mado to blind
people through the newspapers aa to the real
nature Of tho gigantic job. In tho interest. Of
tho Company we're enlisted q, acoro Of writer's,
Schuyler Colfax among tho rest. II is said out
Aoro TINT ho received So, 600 from the Compnny
for hia contributions in favor Of tho road ii the
Now York Independent md othor papers, but this
may not DO truo.
Newspaper mon have beon boughtup by whole
salc. They are, invited out hero in tic balmy
~ r9r1,a ju
tho birds sing swoetly. Thoir pockets aro stuffed
with passes and their atonnchs with wine and
they arc made the recipients Of 30 many favora
that 1t is impossiblo for them to become critics.
They either praise or keep silont. Tho most OF
them praise. - Z,
Thoro aro class Of correspondents who have
puGcd thiB barron country beyond the bounds Of
reason or common sonuo. When their expenses
neat perquisites beside, q moderate amount Of
laudnton Ia to DO expected, but for thorn to deal
| Utmost ontirely in romance ID q frnud upon tho
public who want tue truth or somothing near
the country 30 glorlously TINT tho speculators
named town after him in the Rcd River .couu-
| try, but 1t las gono to ruin. Like tho puffory
that created 1t, 1t could not saul tho teat Of OK
fooled out hero to freezo by tho siren song Of
tho paid correspondents wo may noyer know.
Enough, Mt lonst, to beautifully test tho power
Of tho press, I hear Of two fellows who dropped
town lots upon tho Northern paoilo," said my
informant "Lhying beon persuaded into the in
yostuaont by tho Boston newspapers. Wol,
tloy woro In horc during tho cold weather.
man, md the othor was rathor wicked. The
wickoa ono let In to cursing tho country up
! tlore awfully, 1Io said i was q d--d swindle,
bit at by a--d fools. Tho ptoua man. agreed,
apparently willing that tho otlor should do tho
| awoariug. Presently tho wicked man said 'ho
wautcu to swnp OF liza lots OH the Northern Pa
clio for IN aero III hell. THO good man didn't
agree to TINT, but lo had to hugh somo as no
stood bhivering by tho atoyo."
WHAT THE pua1NEHB MEN TIINK or IT.
| Tho lcadipg business mon Of St. Paul and other
principal cities Of tho Htato aro tied up by tho
| oporaeions Of tho Company, and do not caro to
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