Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-02
MILL BULLDOZERS
HOW TIE WASHBURN FIyfILF LOYE
MINNEAPOLIS.

The Great Milling Interests of the City
Begin to Feel the Turn of the Screw
Efforts to Checkmate the Bulldozers-The
Minneapolis Eastern TO be Built.
The Minneapolis Eastern railroad scheme
has assumed new phase, and to fully explain
the situation it will be necessary to go
somewhat into the history of the entire
scheme. Ever since the building Of the
MINNEAPOLIS ST. LOUIS RAILWAY,
toward the construction of which the city of
Minneapolis paid the liberal sum of $780,
600, the great milling industry has appealed
and prayed to that close-fsted corporation
for the construction of railway to accom-
modate the great
FLOUR TRAFFIC OF THE CITY.
This traffic, as it is to-day. when the mills
are all running, requires from fifty to seven
ty-fve cars per day, and as that
is to be the great industry of the
city, it will be readily seen
each year must be expended by the millers
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mills and flour from the mills to the rail
roads. Now the
wAsuBURN ga AND stB' MILLS
have been accommodated in this respect by
the Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad Owned
by the Washburn family, and the family
have, consequently, been in no hurry to
build side track to accommodate opposition
mills.
Meantime, the other millers laid their
heads together and offered some freight in
ducements to the Chicago, st. Paul q Min
neapois railway if they would come in and
construct a road which should give all the
mills fair and equitable show in their
freighting business. This resulted in the
agreement on the port of the c., st. P. & M.
to furnish the capital and construct the road.
Now we come to the action of our
PUBLIC SPIRITED CITIZENS
the Washburn family. AS soon as they
learned that the Eastern was liable to be
built, they commenced Systematically throw
ing obstacles in the way of building this
line. The GLOBE has from time to time
shown how they opposed the construction of
the Eastern road bed under the west end of
suspension bridge; how they fought in the
courts against the appoint nent of commits
sioners to condemn the necessary land; how
they in short lost no opportunity to
DEFEAT THE ENTEnpR1zE,
because, forsooth, it would give other mills
and railroads fair deal in getting freights to
and from the means of transportation.
Meantime the Chicago, Milwaukee s. St.
Paul railway joined with the G. st. P. IS M,
and the GLOBE announced ten days ago that
the Minneapolis Eastern would be built at
once. This drove
TEE wAsHBURNs CRAZY.
w. D. was in the midst of political
campaign with his scalp trembling in the
balance. O. G. was obdurate. His pocket
was in trouble and he said tsLet Congress go
to hell. I'll spike the other mills ~ or words
to that effect.
So he took the bit in his teeth and COM
count. This road is to run down the canal,
is called
AN ELEVATED RAILROAD,
and will ruin the property Of other mill owners.
OF course the other mill owners protested,
but what did ever Washburn care when he
had the power and his own interests were at
strike? The family own tho water power, the
water power is tho canal, and the Wash
burns claim the right to run their little rail-
road Twelve feet above the canaD where they
pleased. And so seventy-fve men are at
work constructing the road, while mills that
are
WORTH MILLIONS
to their owners are being made yalueless by
these bulldozers extraordinary.
There is talk of injunctions, of riots, Of
legal proceedings everything that will
serve to stop this most villainous outrage
against the rights of property, but still the
building of the railroad progresses.
Now what are the millers going to do
about it?
THE MINNEAPOLIS EASTERN.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul, and
the Chicago, st. Paul g., Minneapolis day
or two since determined definitely to go for
ward with their enterprise. The papers have
been signed, sealed and delivered, and the
work will be commenced on Monday next.
THE BUL1Doz1NG
is rapidly becoming their fight, and the lead
ing men of these two roads hold a
meeting in this city to-day when it is con-
fdently expected that this very peaceful and
| quiet community will
HEAR SOMETHING DROP.
But meantime the Washburn enterprise is
being pushed forward with all the force that
money and hard headed selfshness can bring
| to bear.
| The GLOBE will give another chapter in
this DER true tale tomorrow.
THERE ARE CAUSES OF DISSATISFACTION WITH
WAsHBURN, SOME OF PERSONAL, AND OTHERS OF
A POLITICAL CHARACTER, WHICH, IF THEY HAD
BEEN sKILLFULLY HANDLED BY PERSONS OF CHAR
| AcTER WHO CONFINED THEMSELVES TO THE TRUTH,
MIGHT HAVE DONE HIM CONSIDERABLE HARM
Pioneer Press, Nou. LIST.
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