Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-30
rHE sr. PAUL s SIOUX CITY.

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CONGRATULATIONS on. It's Recent Purchase of
a Nebrn,k0 MISREPRESENTATION as to the
Failure Pottery offhe C"''spG"V.
sioux City Journal
The Journal is heartily glad that the Co
vinp,on, Columbus & Back 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
Covineton 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 connection with
the Union Pacific road, while snother line
was intended for the Black Hills via Niobra-
ra Misfortune soon overlook the company,
and bankruptcy followed, with the line IN
operation only as far as Ponca IN DIXON
county. The plans of the founders or the
road will in 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-
eether with the extensions of branch lines
from the Sioux City & Pacific and the
Union Pacific, have exerted a material inf1u-
ence in changing the aspect of northern Me-
braska as a field for railroad operations. It
| is not now to be- expected that the Covlngton
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 u Sioux City
companies are working in northern Ne
braska in conjunction. IT this be true, We
look for the over-the-river Black Hills
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 north western 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 j. st. Paul. The Sioux City Il
r Pacific, with its Nebraska division, Is no
more than northwestern feeder. The Mil
waukee company is pushing westward on q
; central line between the Union Pacific and
the Northern Pacific and is threatening to
absorb large amount of business that has
+ hitherto been tributary to the Union Pacific
; company. These same companies, in Da-
, kot and Minnesota, have been struggling to
take to themselves the local traffic of the st.
S Paul & Sioux City, to cut off its extensions,
= and to finally take from it the cream of its
through business. 1t became nee
> sary for both companies to
e take active measures for self
e protection. The St. Paul & Sioux City
e had seen Its danger from the first and it has
been making most heroic contest against tie
: great corporations with which it has to con
u tend. Thus it built the Sioux Falls branch
= the Blue Faith branch, the Heron Lake
! branch and the Rock River branch, all leav-
IL ing the main line in Minnesota: and 80 the
}. Union Pacific. during the past year or two
has been active in putting out feeders from
its mail line in Nebraska. The Union Pa
# cifc has no rival in Nebraska that it so
e much dislikes as the Sioux City & Pacific
e In law it is part of the Union Pacific sys-
"a tenn, while in fact it is exclusively part of
,e the Chicago i Northwestern system. 1t has
n afforded the st. Paul & Sioux City the only
If outlet to the South and 10 the West from this
q city. and the Union Pacific, therefore. has had
q no part of the lumber trade except such as the
20 Northwestern was compelled to give it. At
Ne the same time, the St. Paul and Sioux City
ir here has bee n locke up with the Iowa pool
lie roads, because it has been dependent upon
t. these roads for all its connections Self in
lc terest and self protection have brought the
~ Union Pacific and the st. Paul and Sioux
City toge her, and by the Nebraska connec-
tions which trey propose both will be freed
re of bondage that has been CALLING to them.
ii The st. Paul and Sioux City can be of vast
r benefit to the Union Pacific, giving it q
- chance to compete for Northern Pacific
e business and for the west
}, eru business of the Milwaukee
$, road, as we'll as giving it another outlet to
l. the lakes. On the other hand the Union
g Pacific, If course. can be of im mense bene-
PS fit to the st. Paul and Sioux City company,
= for it will open wide and growing territory
to the lumber trade of the northwest,
, and in fact make a great
IL through line from st. Paul to San Francisco.
L That such an alliance as we have outlined
10 has been formed, we say we do not profess to
e know; We only judge from the signs the COM
E panies have displayed and from what seems
= to US to be the mutual interest of both cor
v porations. The Union Pacific is looking for
70 freedom from the Iowa pol. 1t is looking
south as well as north. We anticipate that
the 81. Paul & Sioux City will soon become
,e an active and aggressive competition for the
At grain-carrying trade of this neighborhood.
= More than that, we shall expect it to become
an important line for the shipment hither
and westward of the heavy freights of the mer-
chants. Weexpect it will develop as an agency
of relief from the onerous burdens now
resting upon our people in consequence of
"a the extortionate rates of the Chicago lines.
h The people in the neighboring counties of
sc Nebraska are also especially to be congratu-
~ lated upon the railroad prospects now before
j. them. There can be no doubt that the ST. Paul
A. and Sioux City will go actively to work there
81 to develop the ystems it may be determined
upon. and the result will be to give them
first class railroad facilities at the hands of
n the most popular corporation with the peo-
&c pie of which We have any knowledge in the
ID northwest. The future of northern Nebras-
he ka, as we view it, is very bright. Out of all
5 the bothers, vexations and years of waiting
:, have come now days of promise such as have
NJ never appeared before.
The Emperor Frances Joseph, of Aus
ID tria, is certainly a generous host. He
$, gave dinner the other day to Prince