The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-29
THE ST. PAUL & SIOUX CITY.

THE ST. PAUL & SIOUX CITY. E}
Congratulations on It's Recent Purchase Of
a Nebraska Observation-Disclosures as. to the
Future Policy ofthe Company.
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The Journal is heartily glad that the CO.
vington, Columbus & Black Hills railroad,
on the Nebraska side of the Missouri river
from Sioux City, has become the property Of
the St. Paul & Sioux City company. The
Covington road is Sioux City enterprise.
The name represents the SCOPE of the work
its projectors had in view. They proposed
to build to Columbus, to Q connection with
the Union Pacific road, while another line
was intended for the Black Hills via Niobra-
"a. Misfortune soon overlook the company,
and bankruptcy followed, with the line in
operation only as far as UPonca in Dixon
county. The plans of the founders of the
road will j n no essential particular be fol-
lowed by the st. Paul company. The rail
road situation in northern Nebraska has been
materially changed since the Covington
road was projected. The rapid building Of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul COM
pany in Dakota westward, in connection
with its obvious plans for the future, to-
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from the Sioux City & Pacific and the
Union Pacific, have exerted a material influ-
ence in changing the aspect of northern Ne
braska as a field for railroad operations. It
is not now to be expected that the C%ovington
road will be built either to Niobrara or to
Columbus. We have no authority for the
statement, but the indications are that the
Union Pacific and the st. Paul & Sioux City
r0~n~o~S1o ~-~~Hs~~ s. ---AL1-- Nc
braska in conjunction. If this be true, We
look for the over-the-river Black BILLS
branch to be pushed forward to the Elkhorn
valley, there to connect with the Black Hills
branch of the Union Pacific, while the other
arm of the road will probably be on the line
the Union Pacific company is now
surveying from Fremont, via West
Point, to Sioux City. There are
many reasons in favor of the plausibility of
the theory here advanced. The active rivals
for northwestern business against which
both the Union Pacific and the st. Paul &
Sioux City now have to contend are the
Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul. The Sioux City &
Pacific, with its Nebraska division, is no
more than a northwestern feeder. The Mil
waukee company is pushing westward on a
central line between the Union Pacific and
the Northern Pacific and is threatening to
absorb a large amount of business that has
hitherto been tributary to the Union Pacific
company. These same companies, in Da-
kota and Minnesota, have been struggling to
take to themselves the local traffic of the st.
Paul & Sioux City, to cut off its extensions,
and to finally take from it the cream of its
through business. It became nee
sary for both companies to
take active measures for self
protection. The st. Paul & Sioux City
had seen its danger from the first and it has
been making most heroic contest against the
great corporations with which it has to co n
tend. Thus it built the Sioux Falls branc b
the Blue Earth branch, the Heron Lake
branch and the Rock River branch, all leav-
ing the main line in Minnesota: and so the
Union Pacific, during the past year or two
has been active in putting out feeders from
its main line in Nebraska. The Union Pa
cifo has no rival in Nebraska that it so
much dislikes as the Sioux City & Pacific.
In law it is a part of the Union Pacific sys-
tenn, while in fact it is exclusively a part of
the Chicago s. Northwestern system. It has
afforded the st. Paul & Sioux City the only
outlet to the South and to the West from this
city, and the Union Pacific, therefore, has had
no part of the lumber t~radeexcept such as the
Northwestern was compelled to give it. At
the same time, the St. Paul and Sioux City
here has been locked up with the Iowa pool
roads, because it has been dependent upon
these roads for all its connections. Self-in-
terest and self-protection have brought the
Union Pacific and the st. Paul and Sioux
City together, and by the Nebraska connec-
tions which they propose both will be freed
of a bondage that has been CALLING to them.
The st. Paul and Sioux City can be of vast
benefit to the Union Pacific, giving it q
chance to compete for Northern Pacific
business and for the west
ern business of the Milwaukee
road, as we'll as giving it another outlet to
the lakes. On the other hand the Union
Pacific, Of course, can be of immense bene-
fit to the St. Paul and Sioux City company,
for it will open a wide and growing territory
to the lumber trade of the northwest,
and in fact make great
through line from st. Paul to San Francisco.
That such an alliance as We have outlined
has been formed, We say we do not profess to
know; we only judge from the signs the COM
panies have displayed and from what seems
to us to be the mutual interest of both cor
porations. The Union Pacific is looking for
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south as we'll as north. We anticipate that
the st. Paul & Sioux City will soon become
an active and aggressive competition for the
grain-carrying trade of this neighborhood.
More than that, we shall expect it to become
an important line for the shipment hithe1
and westward of the heavy freights of the mer.
chants. We expectit will develop as an agency
of relief from the onerous burdens nov
resting upon our people in consequence of
the extortionate rates of the Chicago lines
The people in the neighboring counties Of
Nebraska are also especially to be congratu.
lated upon the railroad prospects now before
them. There can be no doubt that the St.PauI
and Sioux City will go actively to work there
to develop the systems it may be determined
upon, and the result will be to give then
frst-class railroad facilities at the hands of
the most popular corporation with the PEG.
pie of which We have any knowledge in the
northwest. The future of northern Nebras.
ka, as We view it, is very bright. Out of all
the bothers, vexations and years of waiting
have come now days of promise such as have
never appeared before. .-.. ....... a.. ,
RETURNING REFUGEES. ~"
Absent Memphians Returning Homo-
Quarantine Regulations Abandoned and