Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1878-11-28
The Treaty OF Peace.
Pioneer Press.

xno treaty O1 GcaCc.
Pioneer Press.
What we stated yesterday in regard to
the treaty between the St. Paul & Pacific
and the Northern Pacific railroad comps
nics covers subst antia!lv all the important
pc,nts. TIL, Saint Paul & Pacific grants
the Northern Pacific the joint use Of their
tracks and depots from Sauk Rapids to
St. Paul under lease in perpctuity, or
for ninety-nine years-which, though
necessarily in the form of a lease, is in
effect a sale to the Northern Pacific of one
undivided half interest in chat line Of the
road, the St Paul and Pacific rtserving
the local traffic OH the line, and agreeing
also to keep the track in good condition,
to replace the IRON rats when worn out
with steel rails ard when the necessities
If the business require, to put in double
track The st. Paul & Pacific also re.
serves to its own use its track and depot
grounds at St. Paul, except that it is t"
share its passenger tracks ana houses
with the Northern Pacific: but supple.
mentary arrangement has been ,rade with
= committee Of citizens whereby the latter
is tn be furnished with sufficient grounds
for its terminal tracks and freight houses
The Northern Pacific reserves the right to
run on the st. Paul & Pacific track into
Minneapolis West, and also into st. Cloud.
If any west side rallrood is to he built it
is to he built by the two companies
joint. The controversy which has been
pending between the two companies as to
the title to certain lands where their r..
spect,ve grants lnterlap in the territory Of
which Glyndon is the center has been
adjusted on mutually satisfactory terms.
About 100000 acres Of land were in dis~
pute, aud the representatives Of the two
companies found no difficulty In settling
that little matter when the subject was
approached in friendly disposition. The
two companies are not to encroach by
lateral lines on each others territory,
though the Northern Pacific reserves the
right to build lateral spur of thirty
miles on the west side Of the Red river.
This leaves the St Paul s. Pacific in un-
disputed possession Of the Red river
valley, except the belt adjacent to the
Northern Pacific, and of the Manitoba
trade. Minor points relating to freight
arrangements it is unnecessary to mention,
except to say that all freight coming to
Duluth for either road is to be carried by
the Northern Pacific. If destined for
Manitoba or points on the St. Paul & Pa.
ci6c, the revenues are to be divided pro
rata. We may repeat. however, that the
arrangement covers all points of conflict
between the two companies, provides for
the amica6le settlement of oil disputes,
and is to all intents and purposes treaty
Of perpetual peace between these great
corporations. who were represented in the
negotiations by some of their ablest and
most sagacious men. They recognized, a.
the common basis of their efforts to com.
promise their difficulties the broad fact
that there was ample room 10 the vast
regions Of the Northwest traversed by
their lines for both their great enterprises,
and that the mission of each was distinct
and 'independent Of the other-and too
x.and in its scope to be trammelled BY
any local disputes arising out Of the con
sergcnce Of their lines At this end. The
st. Paul l. Pacific, while looking to the
development Of the broad stretch Of fer
tile territory traversed BY its line In
Minnesota, is reaching out to lay hold Of
the trans continental trade to be created
by tho Canadian Pacific, through the chein
Af British Splonies which are being rapidly
+sganized through the rich plsius Of the
HaskauhsTSn. The Nostuesp Pacific Is
,sst fsee By ite disenteng, g,e,aeat from local
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