The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-10-30
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n. Misfortune soon overlook the company
and bankruptcy followed, with the line ir
operation only a. far % Ponca In Dixor
county. The plans Of tho founders Of thu
road will in no essential particular be fol-
lowed by the St. Paul company. The rail.
road situation in northern Nebraska has beer
materially Changed since the Covington
road WAS projected. The rapid building OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee d st. Paul COM
pany in Dakota westward, In connection
with its obvious plans for the future, to.
Rether with the extensions OF branch lines
from tho Sioux City d Pacific and the
Union Pacific, have exerted q material influ-
ence in changing the aspect of northern Ne
braska % field for railroad operations. Il
il not now to bs expected that the Covington
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 d Sioux CITY
companies are working in northern Me-
braska in conjunction. It 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 4
Sioux City now have to contend are the
Chicago d Northwestern and the Chicago
Milwaukee d st. Paul. The Sioux CITY q
Pacific, with its Nebraska division, is no
more than northwestern feeder. The Mil
vaukee 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-
kota and Minnesota, have been struggling to
take to themselves the local traffic Of the St.
Paul d Sioux City, to cut off it's extensions
and to finally take from it the cream of ita
through business. It became nee.
sary for both companies to
take active measures for self.
protection. The st. Paul d Sioux CITY
had seen it's danger from the first and it hat
been making most heroic contest against the
great corporations with which it has to con
tend. Thus it built the Sioux Falls branch
the Blue Earth branch, the Heron Lake
branch and the Rock River branch, all leav.
ing the main limo in Minnesota: and 90 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 part oi
the Chicago Il Northwestern system. 1t has
afforded the St. Paul d 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 trade except such as the
Northwestern was compelled to give it. Al
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 it's connections. Self in.
terest and self-protection have brought the
Union Pacific aud the st. Paul and Siou1
City together, and by the Nebraska connec.
tions which trey propose both will be freed
of bondage that has been CALLING to them
The st. Paul and Sioux City can be of vas,
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 10 kes. On the other hand the Union
Pacific, ct course, can be of i'm mense bene-
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 great
through line from St. Paul to San Francisco.
That such An alliance as We have outlined
has baen formed, We say We do not profess to
tnov; 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.
freedom from the Iowa poul. It is looking
south as we'll as north. We anticipate that
the 81. Paul d Sioux City will soon become
grain-carrying trade of this neighborhood.
More than that, we shall expect it to become
IN important line for the shipment hithe1
and westward of the heavy freiqhts of the mer-
chants. We eexpect it will develop as an agency
of relief from the onerous burdens now
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. Pau
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 them
hrst-olass railroad facilities at the hands of
the most popular corporation with the peo-
pie of which We have any knowledge in thu
northwest. The future of northern Nebres
h, as We view it, is very bright. Out Of al
the bothers, vexations and years of waiting
have come now days Of promise such a. have
never appeared before.